TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS
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AGENDA
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FINANCIALS
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TREASURER’S REPORT ................................................................................................................................................4 YTD NOVEMBER FINANCIALS ...............................................................................................................................5 OBJECTIVES & KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ......................................................................................9 2018-2022 FINANCIAL MODELS ............................................................................................................................ 10 MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 5, 2017
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BOA2018 RPM BOARD OF DIRECTORS ............................................................................................................. 29 BOARD AND AMBASSADOR INFORMATION
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2018 BOARD GOVERNANCE .................................................................................................................................. 30 2018 RPM AMBASSADORS ........................................................................................................................................ 31 2017 RPM BOARD MEETING & GRANT DELIBERATIONS CALENDAR.............................................. 32 PRESIDENT’S REPORT
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KEY ELEMENTS OF THE 2018 PLAN .................................................................................................................. 33 2018 RPM FOUNDATION PRIORITIES, GOALS & OBJECTIVES and TACTICS ................................... 35 2018 BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS ................................................................................................................................ 51 KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS ................................................................................................................... 54 RPM’S FUNDING PHILOSOPHY & PROCESS ................................................................................................... 58 ACCIDENT WAIVER & RELEASE OF LIABILITY ........................................................................................... 62 PHOTO-VIDEO AUTHORIZATION FORM ....................................................................................................... 63 AWARDEE PROGRESS REPORTS
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GRANT SUMMARIES
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2017 RPM AT-A-GLANCE MAP ............................................................................................................................... 68 2017 AT-A-GLANCE AWARDS CYCLES 1-2-3 .................................................................................................... 69 AT-A-GLANCE JANUARY 2018 GRANT APPLICATIONS............................................................................. 71 GRANT APPLICATION .............................................................................................................................................. 76 PRESENTED GRANT SUMMARIES ...................................................................................................................... 79 REJECTED GRANT SUMMARIES .......................................................................................................................... 99
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FULL GRANTS/ PRESENTED GRANTS
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ALFRED STATE COLLEGE ................................................................................................................................... 120 ENGINE AND FRAME............................................................................................................................................. 135 EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL ................................................................................ 142 FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL ................................................................................................................................... 154 GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL ................................................................................................... 164 HAYFIELD SECONDARY SCHOOL AUTOTECH ......................................................................................... 174 INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION, INC. ................................................................... 178 LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR ............................................................. 190 LeMAY – AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM.................................................................................................................. 207 MADISON AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR APPRENTICES (MAAP) ..................................................................... 220 MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO .............................................................................................................. 235 McPHERSON COLLEGE ......................................................................................................................................... 244 OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC. ........................ 251 PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY ......................................................................................... 262 RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL .......................................................................................................................... 282 ROCKING THE BOAT ............................................................................................................................................. 289 SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE ......................................... 300 SWEET GRASS TECHNICAL INSTITUTE ......................................................................................................... 313 TAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL ...................................................................................................................................... 325 WEXFORD-MISSAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL ........................................................................................................ 333 TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE
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COLLATERAL MATERIALS
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Holiday Card ................................................................................................................................................................... 342 Under the Hood – Above-and-Beyond the Call of Duty ........................................................................................ 342 2017 RPM At-A-Glance Map ...................................................................................................................................... 342 Emily Hatsigeorgiou story reprint ............................................................................................................................... 342 The Drive Home III RPM/The Creative Workshop Cars & Coffee flyer ........................................................... 342 Shop Hop Arizona flyer ................................................................................................................................................ 342
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AGENDA BOARD MEETING AGENDA Thursday, January 18, 2018 The Hyatt Gainey Ranch Resort, Scottsdale, AZ 9am-12pmMT/11am-2pmET Board Meeting 12-12:30pmMT/2-2:30pmET Executive Session
McCormick Meeting Room Closed Meeting I. RPM Chairman/AAT Vice Chairman Welcome and Remarks – David Madeira (25 minutes) • New Board Member – AAT CEO Adam Langsbard • Approval of October 5, 2017 Board Meeting Minutes • Proposed RPM By-Law Changes II. Treasurer’s Report – Dan Beutler (45 minutes) • November 2017 Financials
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2018 – 2022 Financial Models, Objectives and Key Performance Indicators
III. President’s Report – Diane Fitzgerald (45 minutes) • Funding Philosophy – discussion • 2018 Strategic Plan & Budget – presentation and request for approval
IV. Grant Application Deliberations: Cycle 1 2018 – Stacy Puckett Taylor (50-60 minutes) • 41 Applications Submitted – 17 Presented V. Closing Remarks – Adam Langsbard, David Madeira (5 minutes) VI. Executive Session (30 minutes) Dial-In Details Toll Free 866-906-9888 Participant Access 9425305#
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FINANCIALS
TREASURER’S REPORT
Treasurer’s Report 2017 RESULTS Statement of Financial Position/Balance Sheet •
Cash totaled $514,434 as of November 30 of which $454,407 is unrestricted. We expect to end 2017 with approximately $489,000 in unrestricted.
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Total Net Assets were $727,527 as of November 30.
Statement of Activities/Income Statement •
Through November, Net Income/Loss is behind plan primarily due to lower than planned revenue with a Net Loss of $61,577 compared to the budget of $25,570 Net Income.
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Total revenue was $588,902 through November compared to Plan of $844,270 but up 9.5% over 2016 with the shortfall from plan coming primarily from lower than expected Individual donations.
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Expenses are better than plan in most categories and under plan by $168,021 through November.
2018 AND BEYOND • • •
Discussion regarding the impact RPM should be making in 5 years Review and discussion of financial modeling Establish clear goals and metrics for measuring progress and success
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YTD NOVEMBER FINANCIALS
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OBJECTIVES & KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
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$ 68,505 $ 64,527 $ 100,000 $ 74,011 $ 307,043
64.3%
$ 192,932 $ 350,000 $ 1,500 $ 544,432
$ 21,293 $ 237,389
95,000 100,000 100,000 160,000 $ 455,000
73.5%
126,293 350,000 $ 476,293
Actual 2014
Plan 2015
$ 146,927 $ 178,000 $ 100,000 $ 138,133 $ 563,060
63.4%
$ 178,186 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 551,827
Actual 2015
$ 180,198 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 255,535 $ 785,733
42.3%
$ 467,255 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 827,055
$ 187,415 $ 225,393 $ 100,000 $ 200,398 $ 713,206
60.5%
$ 204,471 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 578,112
Actual 2016 14.8% $ 26,285
Forecast 2017 33.5% $ 68,457
$ 240,660 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 220,438 $ 811,098
40.1%
$ 204,859 $ 221,131 $ 100,000 $ 169,880 $ 695,870
52.4%
$ 523,486 $ 272,928 $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 45,152 $ 873,486 $ 668,080
Plan 2017
$ 275,543 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 185,670 $ 811,213
46.1%
$ 362,011 $ 350,000 $ 46,500 $ 758,511
$ 286,564 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 194,954 $ 831,518
43.1%
$ 416,313 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 811,313
$ 298,027 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 204,701 $ 852,728
40.1%
$ 478,760 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 873,760
$ 309,948 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 214,936 $ 874,884
37.0%
$ 550,573 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 945,573
$ 322,346 $ 300,000 $ 100,000 $ 225,683 $ 948,029
34.0%
$ 633,160 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,028,160
Plan Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 32.6% 15.0% 15.0% 15.0% 15.0% $ 89,083 $ 54,302 $ 62,447 $ 71,814 $ 82,586
RPM Foundation Baseline 5 Year Plan Plan 2016
Assumptions for Forecasting (1) 2018 Revenue per Diane Budget submission; 15% increase in Non Hagerty revenue 2019-2022 (2) Hagerty Contribution stays at $350,000 a year (3)2018 at planned positions for full year; 3% increase in labor wages (4) Benefits at 26% of wages based on historical values % of wages (5) Continue to give $250,000 per year in Grants & Scholarships until 2022 (6) 5% Increase in Operating Expenses
$ 512,212
$ 516,938
$ 436,447 $ 416,241 $ 437,273 $ 507,962 $ 588,093
Recommendations 1) Manage expenses to reduce Net Deficit in 2018 based on actual revenue 2) Continue efforts and alignment with ACM and AAT to increase revenue
$ 489,148
$ 39,463 $ (11,233) $ 41,322 $ (135,094) $ 62,388 $ (27,790) $ (52,702) $ (20,205) $ 21,031 $ 70,689 $ 80,131
$ 169,208 $ 200,000 $ 100,000 $ 238,329 $ 707,537
46.9%
$ 387,200 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 747,000
Projected Unrestricted Cash at end of year without factoring pledge collection Unrestricted cash per balance sheet 569,442
Net Surplus (Deficit)
Total Expenses
America's Car Museum Cost Share Operating Expenses ( 6)
Payroll & Benefits ( 3) (4) Grants & Scholarships (5)
EXPENSES
% Revenue from Hagerty
Total Revenue
Hagerty Contribution (2) In Kind Contributions
Revenue (1)
REVENUE
% increase in Non Hagerty Revenue $ increase in Non Hagerty Revenue
Plan 2014
2018-2022 FINANCIAL MODELS
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% Revenue from Hagerty
$ 169,208 $ 200,000 $ 100,000 $ 238,329 $ 707,537
46.9%
$ 387,200 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 747,000
Plan 2015
$ 146,927 $ 178,000 $ 100,000 $ 138,133 $ 563,060
63.4%
$ 178,186 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 551,827
Actual 2015
$ 180,198 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 255,535 $ 785,733
42.3%
$ 467,255 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 827,055
Plan 2016
$ 187,415 $ 225,393 $ 100,000 $ 200,398 $ 713,206
60.5%
$ 204,471 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 578,112
Actual 2016 14.8% $ 26,285
Forecast 2017 33.5% $ 68,457
$ 240,660 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 220,438 $ 811,098
40.1%
$ 204,859 $ 221,131 $ 100,000 $ 169,880 $ 695,870
52.4%
$ 523,486 $ 272,928 $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 45,152 $ 873,486 $ 668,080
Plan 2017
$ 275,543 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 185,670 $ 811,213
46.1%
$ 362,011 $ 350,000 $ 46,500 $ 758,511
$ 286,564 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 189,383 $ 825,948
45.2%
$ 380,112 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 775,112
$ 298,027 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 193,171 $ 841,198
44.1%
$ 399,117 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 794,117
$ 309,948 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 197,034 $ 856,982
43.0%
$ 419,073 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 814,073
$ 322,346 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 200,975 $ 873,321
41.9%
$ 440,027 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 835,027
Plan Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 32.6% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% 5.0% $ 89,083 $ 18,101 $ 19,006 $ 19,956 $ 20,954
RPM Foundation Version 1 - Reduced Revenue
Assumptions for Forecasting (1) 2018 Revenue per Diane Budget submission; 5% increase in Non Hagerty revenue 2019-2022 (2) Hagerty Contribution stays at $350,000 a year (3)2018 at planned positions for full year; 3% increase in labor wages (4) Benefits at 26% of wages based on historical values % of wages (5) Continue to give $250,000 per year in Grants & Scholarships (6) 2% Increase in Operating Expenses
$ 512,212
$ 516,938
$ 436,447 $ 385,610 $ 338,530 $ 295,620 $ 257,326
Recommendations 1) Cut expenses including staffing or fees to ACM to balance budget 2) Continue efforts and alignment with ACM and AAT to increase revenue
$ 489,148
$ 21,293 $ 237,389 $ 39,463 $ (11,233) $ 41,322 $ (135,094) $ 62,388 $ (27,790) $ (52,702) $ (50,836) $ (47,081) $ (42,910) $ (38,294)
$ 68,505 $ 64,527 $ 100,000 $ 74,011 $ 307,043
64.3%
$ 192,932 $ 350,000 $ 1,500 $ 544,432
Actual 2014
Projected Unrestricted Cash at end of year without factoring pledge collection Unrestricted cash per balance sheet 569,442
Net Surplus (Deficit)
Total Expenses
America's Car Museum Cost Share Operating Expenses ( 6)
Payroll & Benefits ( 3) (4) Grants & Scholarships (5)
EXPENSES 95,000 100,000 100,000 160,000 $ 455,000
73.5%
Hagerty Contribution (2) In Kind Contributions
Total Revenue
126,293 350,000 $ 476,293
Revenue (1)
REVENUE
% increase in Non Hagerty Revenue $ increase in Non Hagerty Revenue
Plan 2014
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% Revenue from Hagerty
$ 169,208 $ 200,000 $ 100,000 $ 238,329 $ 707,537
46.9%
$ 387,200 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 747,000
Plan 2015
$ 146,927 $ 178,000 $ 100,000 $ 138,133 $ 563,060
63.4%
$ 178,186 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 551,827
Actual 2015
$ 180,198 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 255,535 $ 785,733
42.3%
$ 467,255 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 827,055
Plan 2016
Plan 2017
$ 187,415 $ 225,393 $ 100,000 $ 200,398 $ 713,206
60.5%
$ 240,660 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 220,438 $ 811,098
40.1%
$ 204,471 $ 523,486 $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 578,112 $ 873,486
Actual 2016 14.8% $ 26,285
$ 204,859 $ 221,131 $ 100,000 $ 169,880 $ 695,870
52.4%
$ 272,928 $ 350,000 $ 45,152 $ 668,080
$ 275,543 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 185,670 $ 811,213
46.1%
$ 362,011 $ 350,000 $ 46,500 $ 758,511
$ 286,564 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 194,954 $ 831,518
41.3%
$ 452,514 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 847,514
$ 298,027 $ 300,000 $ 100,000 $ 204,701 $ 902,728
36.4%
$ 565,642 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 960,642
$ 309,948 $ 400,000 $ 100,000 $ 214,936 $ 1,024,884
32.6%
$ 678,771 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,073,771
$ 322,346 $ 500,000 $ 100,000 $ 225,683 $ 1,148,029
28.9%
$ 814,525 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,209,525
Forecast Plan Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 33.5% 32.6% 25.0% 25.0% 20.0% 20.0% $ 68,457 $ 89,083 $ 90,503 $ 113,128 $ 113,128 $ 135,754
Assumptions for Forecasting (1) 2018 Revenue per Diane Budget submission; 20-25% increase in Non Hagerty revenue 2019-2022 (2) Hagerty Contribution stays at $350,000 a year (3)2018 at planned positions for full year; 3% increase in labor wages (4) Benefits at 26% of wages based on historical values % of wages (5) Continue to give $250,000 per year in Grants & Scholarships (6) 5% Increase in Operating Expenses
$ 512,212
$ 516,938 Recommendations 1) In 2020 and beyond increase giving and or programing as demand dictates 2) Continue efforts and alignment with ACM and AAT to increase revenue
$ 489,148 $ 436,447 $ 452,443 $ 510,357 $ 559,243 $ 620,739
$ 21,293 $ 237,389 $ 39,463 $ (11,233) $ 41,322 $ (135,094) $ 62,388 $ (27,790) $ (52,702) $ 15,996 $ 57,914 $ 48,886 $ 61,496
$ 68,505 $ 64,527 $ 100,000 $ 74,011 $ 307,043
64.3%
$ 192,932 $ 350,000 $ 1,500 $ 544,432
Actual 2014
Projected Unrestricted Cash at end of year without factoring pledge collection Unrestricted cash per balance sheet 569,442
Net Surplus (Deficit)
Total Expenses
America's Car Museum Cost Share Operating Expenses ( 6)
Payroll & Benefits ( 3) (4) Grants & Scholarships (5)
EXPENSES 95,000 100,000 100,000 160,000 $ 455,000
73.5%
Hagerty Contribution (2) In Kind Contributions
Total Revenue
126,293 350,000 $ 476,293
Revenue (1)
REVENUE
% increase in Non Hagerty Revenue $ increase in Non Hagerty Revenue
Plan 2014
RPM Foundation V2 - Accelerated Growth Plan
64.3%
$ 68,505 $ 64,527 $ 100,000 $ 74,011 $ 307,043
73.5%
95,000 100,000 100,000 160,000 $ 455,000
$ 21,293 $ 237,389
$ 192,932 $ 350,000 $ 1,500 $ 544,432
Actual 2014
126,293 350,000 $ 476,293
Plan 2014
Plan 2015
$ 146,927 $ 178,000 $ 100,000 $ 138,133 $ 563,060
63.4%
$ 178,186 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 551,827
Actual 2015
$ 180,198 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 255,535 $ 785,733
42.3%
$ 467,255 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 827,055
Plan 2016
$ 187,415 $ 225,393 $ 100,000 $ 200,398 $ 713,206
60.5%
$ 204,471 $ 350,000 $ 23,641 $ 578,112
Actual 2016 14.8% $ 26,285
Forecast 2017 33.5% $ 68,457
$ 240,660 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 220,438 $ 811,098
40.1%
$ 204,859 $ 221,131 $ 100,000 $ 169,880 $ 695,870
52.4%
$ 523,486 $ 272,928 $ 350,000 $ 350,000 $ 45,152 $ 873,486 $ 668,080
Plan 2017
$ 275,543 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 185,670 $ 811,213
46.1%
$ 362,011 $ 350,000 $ 46,500 $ 758,511
$ 286,564 $ 250,000 $ 100,000 $ 204,237 $ 840,801
39.6%
$ 488,715 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 883,715
$ 298,027 $ 400,000 $ 100,000 $ 224,661 $ 1,022,688
33.2%
$ 659,765 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,054,765
$ 346,812 $ 550,000 $ 100,000 $ 247,127 $ 1,243,939
27.2%
$ 890,683 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,285,683
$ 400,249 $ 750,000 $ 100,000 $ 271,839 $ 1,522,088
21.9%
$ 1,202,422 $ 350,000 $ 45,000 $ 1,597,422
Plan Forecast Forecast Forecast Forecast 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 32.6% 35.0% 35.0% 35.0% 35.0% $ 89,083 $ 126,704 $ 171,050 $ 230,918 $ 311,739
RPM Foundation V3- Double Grant Making
ne Budget submission; 30% increase in Non Hagerty revenue 2019-2022 stays at $350,000 a year ions for full year; 3% increase in labor wages; additional role added for 1/2 year in 2021 ges based on historical values % of wages
$ 512,212
$ 516,938
$ 436,447 $ 479,360 $ 511,438 $ 553,181 $ 628,515
Recommendations 1) In 2020 and beyond increase giving and or programing as demand dictates 2) Continue efforts and alignment with ACM and AAT to increase revenue
$ 489,148
$ 39,463 $ (11,233) $ 41,322 $ (135,094) $ 62,388 $ (27,790) $ (52,702) $ 42,913 $ 32,077 $ 41,744 $ 75,334
$ 169,208 $ 200,000 $ 100,000 $ 238,329 $ 707,537
46.9%
$ 387,200 $ 350,000 $ 9,800 $ 747,000
ash at end of year without factoring pledge collection 569,442
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MEETING MINUTES OCTOBER 5, 2017 RPM Board Meeting Minutes October 5, 2017 Hershey, Pennsylvania
David Madeira calls Board Meeting to order at 9:30 am EST, 10:30am CST, 6:30am PST Board Attendees: Dawn Fisher, Tabetha Hammer, David Madeira, Jim Menneto, Mike Stowe Board Dial-In Attendees: Keith Flickinger, T.G. Mittler Staff Attendees: Diane Fitzgerald, Stacy Puckett Taylor Staff Dial-In Attendee: Catherine Tierney Unable to attend: Dan Beutler, McKeel Hagerty, Paul Miller I.
CHAIRMAN’S WELCOME AND REMARKS (David Madeira)
David opens the meeting by discussing America’s Automotive Trust’s new CEO, Adam Langsbard. A.
Keith Flickinger enters the call, and David continues the discussion of the evolution of America’s Automotive Trust. Adam has been successful at the Petersen and has raised somewhere between $12 $13,000,000 in corporate sponsors for the museum. David will become Vice Chairman of the AAT Board to oversee Strategic Development for the Trust, ACM and RPM. David will not be Adam’s direct boss, so that Adam has freedom from the former CEO. Adam will report to the AAT Chairman. David is staying on as the Vice Chairman for Strategic Development because, as a young institution, someone needs to make sure that the organization is evolving well.
B.
David states that the Gala is improving and RPM is becoming more visible in it and people are being attracted to that. He says that Michael Clark has been a good addition in the Development department and that he and Diane Fitzgerald have been developing their relationship.
C.
David will be changing his focus to major gift development and strategic priorities that have been started and need to be finished. One strategy will be opening the AAT office in Detroit with funding from Dan Gilbert. He states that he will be beginning the search next week for a full-time person in Detroit now that Adam has been hired. David says that he has good relationships with the Concours of America, the NAIAS, Dan Gilbert and Ed Welburn and the College for Creative Studies. He states that eventually Detroit will be the headquarters of America’s Automotive Trust and that eventually RPM and the CEO of the Trust will be based out of Detroit. Hagerty has also opened an office in Ann Arbor and he sees some synergy there. The new hire in Detroit will also be in charge of Club Auto, which will eventually be headquartered out of the Detroit office as well. Mike Stowe asks if Pontiac, Michigan and the M1 Concourse have been considered as a location for AAT in the Detroit area. David states that they have been offered free space by Dan Gilbert in Cadillac Square in downtown Detroit. He says it is right where Woodward Avenue ends and that they also want
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to partner with the Dream Cruise and see if they can extend it all the way to downtown at some point. T.G. Mittler enters the call on the phone. David states that we will have the June Board Meeting in Detroit for The Trust and RPM and that he also wants to create a summit in Detroit through the Concours Club. He says that they would invite donors to come together with the Boards and some high-powered presenters and talk strategy and use it as a time to engage people. He says that we will have the January Board Meeting in Scottsdale, a June Board Meeting in Detroit, September in Tacoma with the Gala, and they will use Hershey meeting for RPM breakfast and donor cultivation. He says the Gala has been moved so it is at the beginning of the funding season instead of the end. There has also been an award added to the Nicola Bulgari Award, the President’s Award for Outstanding Service from the Museum. That award will be given to Walt Tomsic who produced Open Road for the Museum for 15 years. He states that they are also adding a Master Craftsman Award and that in the future (2019) the new Trust CEO and Diane, as RPM President, will pick candidates in the future. There will be a permanent space next to the Nicola Bulgari award in the Museum. The first award will be given to Keith Flickinger. David thanks Keith for his service to the Museum, as well as compliments him for his restoration work. Keith thanks the Board and states that he is very humbled by the award. David asks that Diane add the award into the Strategic Plan for RPM for next year. David asks if there are any changes to the meeting minutes from the June 2, 2017 Board Meeting. The Board has none. ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the minutes, by Mike Stowe. Seconded by Dawn Fisher. All approved. Motion carried.
II.
TREASURER’S REPORT A.
David states that Dam Beutler submitted his Treasurer’s Report and that Stacy Puckett Taylor emailed it to everyone. Diane then passes out the hard copy and states that Dan sends his regrets, but that he had to attend a Hagerty Board Meeting. She states to the phone participants that we are now looking at the Treasurer’s Report.
B.
David states that we are still a bit behind in the fundraising, but are in better shape than last year. He says that he has two guys that he is working on getting gifts from and that he has one for $75,000 which he is hoping to close on before year end. Diane then says that she has $600,000 in “asks” and that RPM continues to be strong on reaching out to individual collectors/donors. She states that the vintage racing community has been the biggest hit and will be included in her strategic plan moving forward. She states that the spontaneous giving from the vintage racing community has been good and that she left Off To The Races with RPM–Watkins Glen with a $5,000 check which happens with some frequency at events like this. She states that we are not in panic-mode, but in care-mode and that she and Dan have been looking at financial modeling and what the organization needs to look at financially if RPM wants to give away $1,000,000 a year. She says that we are losing the Founder donations and that is going to affect the future outlook of RPM. Mike Stowe asks if we have been able to identify the whys and Diane states yes. She says that the Board has heard her say this before and that in the case of David and Sharon Hewitt, they paid-in-full and this
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would have been the year for them to renew again. She says there is still a “hangover effect” from the transition from the Collector’s Foundation to Hagerty Education Program at America’s Car Museum. David says they were recognized and honored for their contribution, their names are on the wall at the Museum and we are treating them well. David asks if we should recognize them for life, but they should not get the benefits unless they renew, even if it is at a lesser amount. Diane says she has gone through a “menu” of things like David’s suggestions, but that they just do not want to give. She states that she has been cultivating them since April 2016. Jim Menneto asks if they have not seen the benefit of their donation. Diane says that they do not trust the organization because they felt they were not informed about the transition from the Collector’s Foundation to HEP. Diane and David state that there are three entities that are in the same situation including the Hewitt’s, Claudio Ballard and David and Sharon Jenkins. Claudio Ballard and David Jenkins still owe on their pledges. David states that he, Diane and Dan have a meeting on October 16th to work on financial modeling. He states that one of the other things that is happening in fundraising is that the appeals cycle is being currently set. He says that the appeals will be reaching a larger number of people and that they will be able to choose the part of the Trust to which they would like to donate. He said that will help build the base for the RPM funding. David asks Diane if she will consider when and how in the strategic plan we will start an RPM Alumni Association. She says that it was in the Strategic Plan for 2017. David says that we need to make that happen. She says that it has been in the plans, but RPM has not had the wherewithal to make it happen. She asks the Board to remember that we now have a 400student contact list that we did not have before. David states that the idea would be to have a free alumni membership for the first-year and then the alums pay after that.
C.
Jim asks how the Hagerty Policyholders renewal funds have been in 2017. Tabetha states that typically in past years they had an average of $30,000/year given on the renewal forms. She says that at the beginning of this year there were changes to the forms and the technical updates and the option to give was left off of the form. She states that they have seen a pretty substantial decrease in the amount given. Jim asks why they think this has changed so much. She says that there are a couple of things that they are looking at: the first being that they implemented the change last year and on the policy renewal timing it generally takes a one year cycle for them to see the changes. The second is that the amount they are asking for has been changed from $1, $5, and other to $5, $25 and other and the decision is because they received a lot of $1 donations and that everyone was thanked. The downside is that they are not seeing the $1 donations to get those people into the RPM circle. She said that they have also had quite a few changes on the Hagerty side to the technical side of things. Diane asks if there has been a dip in the Hagerty Plus membership. She states that it is only the Hagerty Plus members that get the option to donate. Jim states that he thought everyone received the option to donate. Diane states that they insure 37 vehicles with Hagerty and they have never seen the option to donate. Mike asks what the people who donate $5 are getting for their donation. Diane states that each donor gets a postcard thank you and if they have donated $40 or more then they will get two thank yous, a postcard and a letter acknowledgement. Diane states that there was a solid 18 months between when Bob Knechel retired and Deidre took over that the Hagerty Policyholder renewals were not thanked. David states that now everyone gets thanked.
D.
Keith asks if people are allowed to donate cars to RPM. David says that they should forward any donations to Renee Crist at the Trust and then the proceeds can be given to RPM. Diane states that she has that in her Strategic Plan for next year
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III.
GRANT APPLICATIONS A.
Diane states that in 2017 we received 82 grant applications in comparison to 55 in 2016 and 35 in 2015. She says that RPM is doing a great job of reaching out and posting on our website and on social media. She says that we are getting out into the community. She says that out of 27 grant applications received in Cycle three, Stacy will be presenting the Board with 12. She states that the recommendations are now embedded into the At-A-Glance document. Diane says that we had a total of $63,000 remaining to award today, but that the staff came up with the amount of $58,472 based on the funding fits and what we thought the Board should consider.
B.
Diane states that Stacy will lead the Board through each of the applications and we will decide on each amount as this application is discussed. i.
ALEX LEVAN, Williamsport, PA (Apprentice) Amount requested: $5,000 Suggested amount: $3,000 Awarded amount: $3,000 Category: Auto Stacy states that Alex is a Pennsylvania College of Technology graduate and is currently in an apprenticeship position with Keith Flickinger at Precision Motor Cars. She says that he has requested $5,000 in gap-funding, but that based on the timing of the application the suggested amount is $3,000. She states that application fits the mission and what we are trying to do with the apprenticeship program. David asks why we are not funding the entire amount. Diane answers that it is because of the timing of his apprenticeship and the amount of time he has already been working in the position. He then asks Keith to comment on Alex and his performance to date. Keith states that Alex has got the talent to succeed, that he is motivated and works well with the other employees. The other employees want him to keep him in the shop. He is going to try and keep him, if possible, working for Precision Motor Cars after Alex’s apprenticeship. Diane states that we looked at his request versus the amount left in his apprenticeship and that is how we came up with the $3,000 amount. Keith says that he thinks that is a fair amount.
ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $3,000, by David Madeira. Seconded by Jim Menneto. All approved. Motion carried. ii.
BENJAMIN BREITENBUCHER, La Grange, IL (Intern) Amount requested: $2,500 Suggested amount: $2,500 Awarded amount: $0 Category: Auto
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Stacy states that next is Benjamin Breitenbucher, who was in attendance at the Breakfast and was sitting with RPM Ambassador Stephen Murphy. She states that he would be completing an unpaid internship with RPM during Arizona Car Week. Stacy says that RPM will be hosting a Shop Hop in the Phoenix area to replace the Arizona Concours Programs that RPM used to offer students. The Shop Hop will be two days and there are five shops lined up to visit. There are six other programs hosted by RPM or as participants that week that Ben would support. The amount would cover his expenses for flight, hotel, and food. David states that he has a hard time with this application, because it sounds to him like it should be out of the operating budget and not the grant budget. Diane states that RPM runs into head count and Human Resources issues at the museum because of how it impacts the “magic number” of 50 because of that, she says there are two options for how we could handle it: First, we could have it where he is an intern on a granting basis, as we have done in the past, or, second we could go through Stephen Murphy’s shop if this still is going to provide a head count problem. David asks if the Museum is at a head count of 49 or not. Diane states that he has to be handled as a part-time employee. Tabetha asks what his role would be during the Arizona trip. Diane states that there would be remote planning in December and then during the week he would be helping RPM at each of the programs/events we either attend or produce. These would include the Up Close with RPM at EVIT, the Future Classics Car Show, as well as Shop Hop. She states that it would be instead of having an expensive staffer. Mike Stowe asks if anyone would be willing to pay for him to go. Keith says that he is surprised that Stephen Murphy and Richard Driehaus would not pay for him to attend. David asks if Stacy would be attending and Diane says only for part of the week and to attend the Board Meeting to take Minutes. Mike states that there has to be a better way and Dawn Fisher agrees. Keith states that it sounds like we are using him for free advertising and not to further his education. Tabetha states that she would love for him to have the opportunity, but asks if there is someone in the Phoenix area that we could use for whom we would not have the same travel expenses. Mike states that Diane helped him get students to attend Keels & Wheels with him and he funded it and it worked great. Keith asks Tabetha if the students who attended the Arizona Concours and shadowed him for a few days were paid. Tabetha answers that the two students who came in from McPherson had their travel expenses paid for by Hagerty. Diane states that we had a student who had graduated with West-MEC last year, but he was limited by his part-time work scheduled. She states that, unlike the student intern used last year, Ben will have a long-term relationship with RPM. David asks if we can use Stacy instead. Diane states that we are using the kids to “sell” RPM. T.G. agrees with that point and states that perhaps it should come out of the marketing budget instead. David states that perhaps Richard Driehaus can pay for it and Diane states that Stephen Murphy is very supportive. ACTION ITEM Motion to deny, $2,500, by Mike Stowe. Seconded by David Madeira. All approved. Motion carried.
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iii. BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION, Bowling Green, KY Amount requested: $8,992 Suggested amount: $4,000 Awarded amount: $0 Category: Auto Stacy states that Bowling Green Area Chamber Foundation is a returning applicant from Cycle Two 2017. She says that their previous application did not fit the mission, but that after some guidance they resubmitted their application. She says that have a good program with a lot of community support and a partnership with the Warren Area Community Technical Center. They submitted a budget and we pulled out the $4,000 amount to fund a Lincoln Tig Welder for their program. Dawn states that she does not like to fund only part of a budget. Mike says that it also states that it is for a collision-based program and not a restoration program. Stacy states that the Board needs to remember that with equipment funding it benefits everyone in their program as opposed to pulling out just a couple of students to fund apprenticeships or scholarships. ACTION ITEM Motion to deny the amount of $4,000 by Jim Menneto. Seconded by Dawn Fisher. All approved. Motion carried. iv.
CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM, St. Michaels, MD Amount requested: $26,000 Suggested amount: $5,000 Awarded amount: $5,000 Category: Marine
Stacy states that this is a returning grant applicant and awardee and that they are asking for apprenticeship funding. She says that they are asking for $26,000 to cover the entire salary of their apprentice, but that after reviewing their application she is recommending that we award them $5,000. Diane states that they have adequate resources at their disposal to make up the difference. David asks if it is a two-year apprentice and Stacy answers that it is and the current apprentice is in his second year. David then asks if we granted for the first year and Stacy answers yes. ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $5,000 by David Madeira. Seconded by Tabetha Hammer. All approved. Motion carried. v.
GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL, Cedarville, MI Amount requested: $5,000 Suggested amount: $5,000 Awarded amount: $5,000 Category: Marine
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Stacy states that the program is a returning grant awardee with a program that has an almost 100% placement rate. She says that she recently visited the program and was able to meet RPM scholarship winner Francis Peat who was a very interesting student. He already has job offers and will be completing the program in May 2018. Diane states that Mike and Clint also have visited the program and were very impressed as well. Stacy states that the school has actually reduced the amount they are asking for because they have gained a lot of community support for the program. She says that all of the money they are asking for will now go directly into their scholarship fund. ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $5,000, by David Madeira. Seconded by T.G. Mittler. All approved. Motion carried. vi.
HARBOR HISTORY MUSEUM, Gig Harbor, WA Amount requested: $10,000 Suggested amount: $4,000 Awarded amount: $4,500 Category: Marine Stacy states that the Harbor History Museum is a new applicant, but they have partnered with the Gig Harbor Boatshop, an RPM grant awardee. She says they will be working with the Gig Harbor Boatshop and have created a program that fits the RPM mission with a combination of history, restoration and preservation, and hands-on experience. David states that it is a beautiful museum and even though it is modest in size, they use their space wisely. He says that it is getting a lot of local recognition. Diane then states that the grant is extremely well written and suggests that if the Board has time, that they read the entire application. Stacy states that we are recommending $4,000 which would cover two student stipends of $1,500 each and $500 each for tools. David asks if we give students tools and Diane responds that we have talked about it over the years and mentions the high cost of tools. She says that the Board has never taken action on it, but she is going to add it to the Strategic Plan. She says that this grant seemed like a good opportunity to raise the topic again. Tabetha states that we have had the conversation about giving tools to students before and that Keith said that there is something to be said for the students paying for and owning their own tools. She states that she loves what Snap-On does by giving students a discounted rate, but that the students are still purchasing them directly. She thinks it is a mindset and there is something to be said for buying your own tools. Diane states that this would not pay for all of the tools they need. Mike Stowe says that tools are very personal and that you need to buy the tools you need as you need them. Stacy asks if we could fund three student stipends instead of covering the tools. Jim states that would be three at $4,500. The Board all agrees and Diane states that we will now change the amount to $4,500 to cover three student stipends.
ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $4,500, by Jim Menneto.
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Seconded by Keith Flickinger. All approved. Motion carried. vii. INDEPENDENCE SEAPORT MUSEUM, Philadelphia, PA Amount requested: $11,908 Suggested amount: $5,472 Awarded amount: $5,472 Category: Marine Stacy states the Independence Seaport Museum is a new applicant. She says that they have a wonderful program that fits our mission. They are asking for apprentice funding. The program has been in existence for years, but they discovered that they needed to have more hands-on apprentices participating. The apprentices will live on the boat in the harbor. Jim asks what type of boat and Stacy responds that it would be a tall ship. She says they have attracted apprentices from all over the world, but the apprentices are struggling to fund their time living in Philadelphia. David states that he really likes their Workshop on the Water program and that it is a legitimate museum, no doubt about it. Stacy states that we are recommending giving them $5,472 which would cover the stipends for two apprentices. She says that comes from their budget numbers. David asks what about the safety equipment and supplies and Stacy says that we would only be funding the stipends and not the equipment and supplies. Jim asks if there is any concern with this being the third maritime in a row and Stacy states that we had a lot of marine applications. Diane points out that we had 16 automotive applicants and 11 marine. Mike states that if you look at it from a Hagerty perspective the boat thing is very small. Tabetha states that they are a very engaged group. ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $5,472, by David Madeira. Seconded by Jim Menneto. All approved. Motion carried. viii. LAKE WASHINGTON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, Kirkland, WA Amount requested: $25,000 Suggested amount: $6,000 Awarded amount: $6,000 Category: Auto Stacy states that they are a returning grant recipient. She says that we pulled out $6,000 from their budget to fund three $2,000 scholarships. She states that these scholarships would be restricted to students who are interested in pursuing restoration as a career. Dawn asks if we are funding any of the equipment and Stacy says no. She says that the program is more collision-oriented, so we will work with the school to find the students with “heritage in their hearts” and will put together guidelines that they have to meet in order for the students to qualify for the scholarships. Diane states that we have done this with them in the past. David states that there are people like Peter Hageman helping to shape the program and that CCCA-PNR is paying attention to them.
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Mike says that we need to watch this program, as the numbers they had for their equipment needs seem very inflated. Stacy responds that this is one of the reasons we pulled out the scholarships alone to fund. Jim asks if the other numbers are inflated as well. Diane states that $2,000 is a standard number for awards. David states that Stacy has done a good job of encapsulating what they have asked for, but asks that we change the At-A-Glance to reflect this. ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $6,000, by David Madeira. Seconded by Jim Menneto. All approved. Motion carried. ix.
NORTHWEST SCHOOL OF WOODEN BOATBUILDING, Port Hadlock, WA Amount requested: $15,000 Suggested amount: $3,000 Awarded amount: $3,000 Category: Marine Stacy states that they are a returning grant awardee. She states that they asked for $15,000 for scholarship and internship funding. She says that we have recommended $3,000 of which $1,500 would be allocated for scholarship funding and $1,500 would be allocated toward their Prothero internship.
ACTION ITEM Motion to approve the full amount recommended, $3,000, put forward by Diane Fitzgerald. All approved. Motion carried. x.
PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, Williamsport, PA Amount requested: $30,000 Suggested amount: $12,500 Awarded amount: $0 Category: Auto Stacy states that Pennsylvania College of Technology is asking for $30,000 to fund the purchase of a pullmax power hammer. She states that, as the Board has discussed in the past, we supported the creation of the program and they are now getting to the point where they need to purchase more equipment for their labs. She says they asked for $30,000 and we have recommended $12,500. Mike thinks they do not need equipment such as this. Diane asks if he would be willing to counsel them on this and he states that he is not the correct person to do so. Diane states that there are two things that happen as we are funding these entities: one is growth and they came to us regarding staffing funding; and second, an intern that we told them would not be funded by RPM. She states that then the equipment request came up and if we are not careful we will only affect 30 scholarship students a year if we only fund scholarships and do not fund equipment. Diane states that the equipment has a longer life in the program and we often receive recognition on the equipment itself in the form of a brass plaque. Stacy adds to the discussion the fact that the school is hoping to get a
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pullmax in order to speed up the time it takes to create panels for projects, so that they can move their projects through the shop quicker. Keith states the he agrees with Mike and that they can purchase one a lot cheaper. He states that when it comes down to equipment in general he would rather give the colleges the equipment than the shops and it is a much better decision for the masses. Stacy suggests that if we approve the recommended funding we could then help them to find the power hammer or if that is not possible, we could then see what other equipment they need that is within the recommended $12,500 amount. Jim asks if it is overkill for money. Stacy states that you need to take into consideration the transport as well. Keith states that $10,000 should be enough. Tabetha states that on the tool funding aspect, she knows it is a challenge for schools to get funding for tools, but it is a critical element of their programs. She states that on the one hand she wants to help them with funding, but on the other hand she feels like it is their responsibility to outfit their classroom with the proper equipment. She feels RPM’s part of that is providing experiences for the students that the colleges do not necessarily have the ability to do. She thinks there is a unique aspect of what RPM does in providing experiences and connections and building the story and that if a college or institution is going to have a restoration program, they hold the responsibility for outfitting it with the tools that they need. Dawn states that she agrees, as well as Mike. David agrees and adds that it is also hard to give money to a school that is part of the Pennsylvania College system and that the money is there it is just a matter of politics as to who gets it. Mike states that it looks to him like they came up with a reason to ask for money, like they did not want to miss a cycle. Diane states that we cultivate relationships with them and guide and advise them. She states that this is actually the first time that McPherson has not submitted an application back to back. She states that we are working with them now on the change from three cycles to two cycles. Tabetha asks if this is an opportunity for RPM to be a bit of a hub, so to speak, to help identify the needs of the program and provide them with the contacts in the restoration world to connect the programs with the restoration shops that have the tools they need. Perhaps by RPM putting the need out there we can help them receive tools from other sources and RPM will not need to be the funding source. Diane states that we have started doing that in the realm of car donations that programs need in order to have projects. She says that this would be a good continuation of that and that if we would have mentioned it at Breakfast with the Board today then we probably would have had two shops say they have something that would work. Tabetha then states that maybe the shops would be willing to sell their equipment to the schools for less as well. T.G. states that one of the things we need to talk about in the near future is what the RPM Board Policy is toward equipment, because the issue comes up again and again, as well as donating money for cars to use for restoration projects. He says that way Diane and Stacy would have guidelines to fall back on. Diane states that the car donation is done by posting it on the website and social media and is not brokering. She states that this would be different, because we would be putting it out there to our “mentorship mindset” shops. T.G. states that we are often in the situation where the Board says they do not want to give money for equipment, but we are often asked for that exact thing. He says that the RPM needs to have the ability to talk to them and give them an avenue to get the equipment if we are not going to fund it. He says we need guidelines so we do not have the same conversation at every meeting. Keith then states, as a shop owner, he would not even ask because that is part of doing business. He is not a fan of awarding equipment to anyone for
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anything. Stacy states that McPherson gets a lot of equipment donations and has outfitted their entire shop with donations including tools and lifts, as they cannot afford to buy everything and still pay instructors. She states that they are fairly small programs that are trying to prove their worth to their Boards. She says that the program at Pennsylvania College of Technology is one of 30 plus programs on the campus that are all vying for funding. Tabetha states that the programs do need to find support for the equipment funding, but that to T.G.’s point, we at RPM need to decide what we want to do and what we want our guidelines to be. ACTION ITEM Motion to deny the request put forward by Mike Stowe. Seconded by Keith Flickinger All approved. Motion carried. Diane reminds the Board about the funding philosophy document that was created and presented in January 2015. She states that she will email it out to the Board and include as an agenda item for discussion at the January Board Meeting. xi.
RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL, Spring Green, WI Amount requested: $10,000 Suggested amount: $5,000 Awarded amount: $0 Category: Auto Stacy states that the next applicant is new and that they came to RPM because the new instructor has been growing the program and they need a car to restore. They have been looking locally, but have not been able to find a donation. She states that it has been hard for them because the car will be a donation and the car will not be returned to the owner. David says he would not think that would be a challenge at all. Stacy answers that RPM gets contacted often by programs that are looking for project car donations. David says he is typically very much against it. He asks if we purchase the car and then when it is completed we sell it and the proceeds go back to RPM for a scholarship. Stacy answers that they would want to sell the car and put the money into their next project. David and Dawn then both state that they then need to buy their own car. He said that they have never funded cars, because it is always the question of who is benefiting. Mike suggests that they contact McPherson. Stacy states that we would like to keep this program on the radar and perhaps having them reapply for project funding once they have found a car to work on. Jim asks if they are primarily looking for a classic car or if it matters what age it is. Stacy states that they would ideally like something from the seventies or older. She says that they would like a classic car, but it does not have to be anything special. Diane states that we are in relationship with the school, from a complimentary programs standpoint. She asks that the Board remember that we do not fund everything, but we do build relationships to find the students with “heritage in their hearts” to invite to RPM programs. Stacy then states that the instructor has a real passion for teaching and growing the program and that it is one that we should keep them in mind for future funding. She then says that we have put their car search on our social media and are promoting it that way as well.
ACTION ITEM
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Motion to deny the request put forward by Diane Fitzgerald. All approved. Motion carried. xii. SWEET GRASS TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, Big Timber, MT Amount requested: $10,000 Suggested amount: $3,000 Awarded amount: $0 Category: Auto Stacy introduces the next program as being another new applicant. It is a community program with a lot of support. She says they are working on a reproduction Cobra Daytona. Mike states that this is the worst car to start with and Stacy answers that they have done other cars, but this is their current project. T.G. makes note of the program being in a part of the country that we have not supported in the past. Stacy states that they have good community support and a lot of great students. David asks what happens to the car. Stacy answers that they would sell it to fund their next projects. T.G. states that they already have the car and Stacy agrees and goes on to say that the money would go for project funding, meaning parts and supplies. Tabetha then states that it also says that the car will be used in Autocross events after completion. Mike says that is way out of our ballgame. Tabetha states that it is a very dangerous car. Stacy asks if we would be willing to fund anything else for them. ACTION ITEM Motion to deny the request put forward by David Madeira. Seconded by Dawn Fisher. All approved. Motion carried. T.G. states that he wants us to keep in touch with this program, because it is in the middle of nowhere and where we have no geographical reach. Stacy says that is one of the reasons we wanted to fund them. Everyone agrees that the program is one to watch. David says to let them know the Board is interested in funding them in the future. Tabatha states that we have about $25,500 left that was not funded. David says that is fine, because it leaves money on the table. Diane agrees that she is comfortable with that. Stacy states that we have had a large number of new and good applicants and that with the relationships we are developing with programs we are able to weed out a lot of the ones that do not fit the mission, ahead of them applying. David confirms that Diane is going to send out the Funding Philosophy document to the Board to review in the coming months and then discuss at the annual meeting in January. Diane reminds the Board that the reason that was created was to get clarity among the Board Members, but also to find out how many students we are impacting a year. She states that she is uncomfortable impacting only 30 students a year, but is comfortable impacting 1,000 students a year. She then asks if anyone would like to go over the rejected applicants and the Board members say no.
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Diane states that in the Board Book there is an At-A-Glance that shows Cycles One and Two, plus the map indicating where our impact and influence have been. She states that prior to today we had a ratio of 76% automotive and 24% marine programs. She points out that we use the 80/20 ratio to determine how many automotive versus marine programs we fund. Jim asks how that came about and Diane states the Board decided on that ration in 2014. Diane states that boat building has been around for thousands of years and automotive and motorcycles have been around for far less. She says that the apprenticeships and internships in the marine world have continued uninterrupted for hundreds of years. She goes on to state that we are looking at the marine world and saying how can we replace the hours and help to get the automotive side organized like the marine. Tabetha states that she thinks there is a huge opportunity on the boatbuilding side for donor cultivation with a lot of the individuals and with the Antique and Classic Boat Society. She says they are very involved and supportive of education and youth programming. She states that they would be a great target. Diane says that has never been a focus in the past. Tabetha and Mike both state that Carla Gernhofer who runs the Marine Department at Hagerty would be a great resource to help RPM target the right people in the marine world.
IV.
PRESIDENT’S REPORT (Diane Fitzgerald) A. Diane states that she is going to briefly comment on some of the details on page 24 of the Board Book. She says that on the date she wrote the report we had impacted 624 students and since then we are already adding another 120 students who have been impacted. She states that this includes the 70 students who attended Off to the Races with RPM–Watkins Glen. Diane says that the Strategic Plan had a goal of 865 students impacted and that we will definitely get there. She points out to David that these are the alumni that the he was discussing earlier. She says that these are the students with “heritage in their hearts” and they definitely understand the way they benefit from RPM. Diane states that in trying to sort out the experiences that RPM provides for students, we have categorized the world of “how collectors use their collector cars” into four strategic areas: showing collector cars and boats, racing collector cars and boats, touring – like the Copperstate 1000 and Colorado Grand, and buying and selling. She says that everything about using collector cars seems to fit into one of these four categories. She states that RPM programs are about taking the students to meet their future customers and not just for a day of fun. She says that the 12 hours we had with students at Watkins Glen was very successful in introducing them to the people who could give them jobs in the future. She states that four students left with soft offers for summer internships in 2018. The students brought business cards and resumes to the track. Diane says that the only part of the industry we have not introduced the students to as of yet is touring. She says we are trying to introduce them to career opportunities. She states that the auction houses have been very receptive and helpful by giving us tickets and a look behind-the-scenes and that auction house network is growing. She says that showing, and now racing, have been the focus of this year and that the programs have been more successful than she could have hoped.
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because we refer to our participants as students. She states that she is increasingly calling it the RPM Network, from a messaging standpoint. She thinks that the addition of connecting with the shops and the vetted list have been helpful. Dawn states that she would like the RPM collateral to have at their Cars and Coffee in Traverse City. Stacy states that there is a great instructor, David Mackey, at Wexford-Missaukee who could get in touch with Dawn to bring his students to their Cars and Coffee. Diane states that we could also push it out via our social media. She says that we have become very systematic this year and we have thought leadership messages going out on our social media every day and posting events and opportunities from around the country. Dawn states that she thinks the students would enjoy it and they get so many people through their facility that it would be great for them to be able to have the RPM information on site. Diane says that she would like to close with an update on staffing: we are at the tail end of staffing searches. She says that you might remember that we had staffing changes in January and that Stacy became the Interim Grants Administrator at the beginning of February and a part-time Interim Administrative Assistant started then as well. She states that they were part-time working 29 hours per week. She says that everything that has been done to this point was done with herself and two parttime people and the Ambassadors. She says that changed recently and introduces Cathy Tierney, a phone participant, and states that she will be working full-time as the Administrative Coordinator in Chicago and that after a national search for Mentorship & Grants Administrator we have a finalist in Stacy. She says that we are in the processing of benchmarking the job and that we will see if Stacy likes the offer. She says that we are at that point and ready to hit the ground for fundraising for the last weeks of the year and planning for 2018. Diane welcomes Cathy to RPM and thanks her for being on the call. Cathy states that she is looking forward to working with everyone. Diane asks if there are reactions or comments on the Breakfast. All of the Board Members are very complimentary and that they were impressed with the turn out and the caliber of attendees. Diane says that the Breakfast with the Board is what is held in Hershey, but we have had luncheons called Up Close with RPM that have been held in Tacoma, Arizona and Pennsylvania and that holding something like this at Amelia Island may be a good idea. She then states that last year we submitted a proposal to Amelia Island for RPM to receive funding. Diane says that Mark Becker, the heir apparent to Bill Warner, contacted Jason Wenig, who had sent out an appeal to his contacts, and stated that the Amelia Island Concours would not donate to RPM because they already give money to McPherson. Diane says she has been trying to work with them to make them understand that McPherson is a part of the puzzle, but not the only part. She states that after having both Mark and Bill at the breakfast, she is going to go back to them and ask for $10,000. Mike states that he talks to Bill and would be willing to ask what his impression was of the event. V.
EXECUTIVE SESSION A. David thanks Stacy for all of her work and that they will now enter the Executive Session.
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BOA2018 RPM BOARD OF DIRECTORS BOARD AND AMBASSADOR INFORMATION
Dan Beutler Hagerty 141 Rivers Edge Traverse City, MI 49684 Direct: 231.933.3760 Mobile: 231.357.2145 Email: dbeutler@hagerty.com Dawn Fisher MFD Classic Motors 1701 Park Drive Traverse City, MI 49686 Mobile: 231.883.7007 Email: dawn@mfdclassicmotors.com Keith Flickinger Precision Motor Cars, Inc. 808 North Fenwick Avenue Allentown, PA 18109 Bus: 484.239.8566 Mobile: 484.239.8566 Email: kflickinger@americascarmuseum.org McKeel Hagerty Hagerty 141 Rivers Edge Traverse City, MI 49684 Direct: 231.933.3733 Mobile: 231.883.3773 E-mail: mckeel@hagerty.com Tabetha Hammer Hagerty 141 Rivers Edge Traverse City, MI 49684 Bus: 231.922.8837 Mobile: 231.313.7475 E-mail: thammer@hagerty.com
David Madeira America’s Automotive Trust 2702 East D Street Tacoma, WA 98421 Bus: 253-683-3950 Mobile: 253.985.0058 E-mail: ViceChair@AmericasAutomotiveTrust.org Jim Menneto Hemmings Motor News 222 Main Street Bennington, VT 05201 Bus: 802.447.9508 Mobile: 802.578.6801 Email: jmenneto@hemmings.com Paul E. Miller LeMay – America’s Car Museum 2702 East D Street Tacoma, WA 98421 Bus: 253-779-8490 ext. 1006 Mobile: 253.219.7285 E-mail: Paul.Miller@americascarmuseum.org T. G. Mittler 830 Gonzales Road Santa Fe, NM 87501 Mobile: 505.603.7452 Home: 505.820.6014 Email: tgmittler@yahoo.com Mike Stowe Great Lakes Motor Works 976 East Division Boyne City, MI 49712 and PO Box 402, 1345 M-75 South Boyne City, MI 49712 Bus: 231.582.9100 Mobile: 231.622.1061 Email: mike@rmstowe.com
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2018 BOARD GOVERNANCE I. Officers A. B. C. D.
Chairman David Madeira Vice Chair T.G. Mittler Treasurer Dan Beutler Secretary Mike Stowe
II. Board Classes A. Members By Position 1. McKeel Hagerty, Chairman of Hagerty 2. David Madeira, CEO America’s Automotive Trust and ACM B. Class of 2018 1. Dawn Fisher 2. Paul E. Miller C. Class of 2019 1. Tabetha Hammer 2. Jim Menneto D. Class of 2020 1. Keith Flickinger 2. T.G. Mittler
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2018 RPM AMBASSADORS
Patrick Barnes Community College Instructor, Retired ACM Volunteer Portland, OR and Indio, CA
Jason Peters Trimmer SMS Automotive & RPM Scholar Portland, OR
Josh Baum Conservator Private Collection Former Assistant Curator, ACM Goleta, CA
Stacy Puckett Taylor Interim Grants Administrator RPM Foundation Detroit, MI
Herb Clark Founder Automotive Restoration Club of Sun City West Sun City West, AZ
Burt Richmond Board Member, ACM, Retired Collectors’ Car Garage Chicago, IL
Drew Feustel NASA Astronaut Houston, TX (training in Russia for 2018 Mission)
David Rising Former Tacoma, WA Resident Automotive Engineer Stuttgart, Germany
Ryan Levesque Lead Painter Andritz, Inc. Montoursville, PA (first RPM Apprentice)
Ronn Sieber High School Principal, Retired District Superintendent, Retired Hillsborough, NC
Bud McIntire Director, Retired Great Lakes Boat Building School Winston Salem, NC
Clint Sly President Collectors Financial Services Belleair, FL
Stephen Murphy Curator Chicago Vintage Motor Carriage Chicago, IL
Lyn St. James Indy Racer Phoenix, AZ and Indianapolis, IN
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2017 RPM BOARD MEETING & GRANT DELIBERATIONS CALENDAR
2018 RPM BOARD MEETINGS & GRANT DELIBERATIONS CALENDAR
January
RPM Board Meeting & Grant Application Deliberations (Friday, December 8, 2017 Grant Application Deadline)
June
RPM Board Meeting & Grant Application Deliberations
(Friday, April 20, 2018 Grant Application Deadline)
October
RPM Board Meeting (Strategic Session)
Scottsdale, AZ (Hyatt Gainey Ranch Resort)
Thursday January 18, 2018
9am-12pmMT Meeting 12-12:30pmMT Executive Session
Detroit, MI (TBD)
Thursday June 7, 2018
1-3:30pmET Meeting 3:30-4pmET Executive Session 4-5:30pmET Up Close With RPM Cocktail Reception
Tacoma, WA (LeMay – America’s Car Museum)
Thursday September 6, 2018
Afternoon time TBD Meeting Executive Session
Times are noted in meeting site local times. In 2018 will have 3 Board Meetings but only 2 grant cycles – December/January (Scottsdale, AZ) and April/June (Detroit, MI). The September Tacoma, WA Meeting will be a closed meeting and focused on strategic planning and financial modeling. Scottsdale, AZ is also the place where AAT and ACM hold their Board Meetings. It is also where AAT hosts its annual “Enthusiasts Gathering.” Detroit, MI is also where AAT and ACM hold their Board Meetings. Additional activities include Cars & Cigars and an AAT Summit Meeting. Tacoma, WA is also where AAT and ACM hold their Board Meetings. AAT’s annual fundraiser for all entities of AAT – Wheels & Heels Gala is Saturday, September 8th.
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PRESIDENT’S REPORT KEY ELEMENTS OF THE 2018 PLAN
We are leading a restoration/preservation education movement. Here is what we plan to accomplish in 2018: •
FUNDRAISING Secure RPM’s financial future with pledges and, eventually, an endowment. Expand Board and get 100% Board participation in donating to RPM. Build the Young People’s Network (YPN). Significantly increase major donations by continuing to tap into new potential donors, with 2 $100,000 donors + 3 $50,000 donors + 5 $20,000. Increase the number of donors by 3% and the number of donations by 19%. Cultivate corporations and car clubs. Other revenue sources to tackle are matching donations, renewed commitment request and mass appeals. We need more money to be able to fund more and operate effectively. Renew Hagerty’s annual commitment of $350,000, which expires in 2018.
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SIGNIFICANT IMPACT Breakfasts With the Board, Up Close With RPM luncheons and Summit Meetings are significant ways to report impact/progress, raise funds and build community, all with RPM as a “thought leader.” Influencing and shaping curriculum development will continue to be essential. RPM’s Shop Hops and other complimentary programs enable students to get into the field, meeting their future customers and seeing how they use their collector vehicles. An Apprenticeship Program will expand beyond Allentown, PA. Job opportunities for “RPM students” will continue to present themselves and we will engage in a “student mentoring” process. “Earn As You Learn” and “Junior Year Abroad”-style programs will be suggested to post-secondary schools. Researching the industry and the value of education, and owning that research, will be an important new aspect of RPM’s workload this year. Finding students with “heritage in their heart” – with the support of above-and-beyond the call of duty teachers – is key. Restoration programs produce only about 150 new graduates/year and we estimate more than 200 jobs/year. Develop further the RPM website with OPPORTUNITIES and RESOURCES.
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GRANTS AWARDED & YOUNG PEOPLE IMPACTED Revisit funding philosophy. With $250,000 allocated for funding in 2018, we will be faced with the dilemma of having significantly more strong applicants to share our grant funds. We will have 2 grant cycles. RPM has nearly tripled the number of organizations submitting applications, to 82 in 2017, from 33 in 2015. As RPM continues doing its job and doing it right, we will find that programs we support are expanding to meet new demands. Students benefit from RPM’s funding but also RPM’s hosting complimentary programs. We expect to impact 825 students this year, compared with 410 in 2015. Rolling out RPM programs that schools would offer, using RPM’s “kits” as templates-for-success, some organizational support and funding, will be considered.
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AUDIENCE REACH Above-and-beyond the call of duty teachers are key targets this year – and finding the car guys among them. Continuing relationships with students, schools, shops, clubs, collectors and industry in “turnkey ways.” Consider investors-in-the-industry and what their role might be in the coming years. Expand paid staff. Balance the classic car world with the automotive worlds of the next generations: Hot Rods & Customs. Connect meaningfully with SEMA, at high levels. Initiate RPM Awards of Excellence to shops/craftsmen and teachers.
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GEOGRAPHY We’re at staff/volunteer capacity with geographic reach, so travel in 2018 will again be 90,000 miles among 5-6 people, composed of staff and ambassadors. Refine our outreach, monitor momentum and keep the same or decreasing the number of States, site visits and car events, all noted in RPM’s Tactical Planning document. Key States in 2018 include Virginia, Texas, Nebraska and Southern California, while we continue to offer support in our “hot spots” States. See the mapping of RPM which shows “warm spots” and “cool spots” – and determine if they need attention.
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MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT/DIANE FITZGERALD January 18, 2018 2018 RPM FOUNDATION PRIORITIES, GOALS & OBJECTIVES and TACTICS
The collector car hobby gave birth to an industry, which we call the Collector Car Industry. It is a luxury industry, like jewelry, wine & spirits and cigars. We cite 1970 as the beginning of the automotive and motorcycle restoration industries supporting the hobby. The RPM Foundation is doing everything it can to support restoration and presentation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen and artisan. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by RPM safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry. We acknowledge that there are five post-secondary schools offering 2-year and 4-year restoration degree and certificate programs in the United States. We estimate that these schools graduate about 150 students/year, with enrollment at about 500. Students enrolled in these programs are not only being trained, but they are being educated. Of the 300 restoration shops we “watch”, they all need to fill open positions and the shop owners have a preference for experienced versus entry-level employees. We estimate that there is a perpetual need to fill 200 openings at any given time. While these are largely assumptions based on information we collect from the schools, when available, and alumni, we feel that they are a reasonable basis for understanding the niche marketplace and industry. RPM’s social value proposition is trying to crack the code of the cultural bias against the trades while sustaining hands-on training for young adults – insisting that not everyone needs four years of college, (although that is certainly an option), and school debt. RPM is at the intersection of students, schools and shops – and engages collectors, clubs and corporations in an organized network of future and current workers, small business owners and collector customers. Since 2015, we have traveled 226,000 miles the United States and parts of Canada (2015=57,000, 2016=79,000, 2017=90,000) looking for the next generation of craftsmen and artisans who will be stewards of our heritage. Studying RPM’s notion of the automotive restoration educational pipeline-to-shop-readiness reminded us that hundreds of hours of under-the-hood learning gained informally in garages across the United States in the 1940s-1950s-1960s are forever lost – our conservative estimate is as much as 1,800 hours, or 45 full time weeks of experience, making it urgently important to understand real hours spent studying restoration and the impact of that on shop-readiness. There is a culture clash between shop owners and young people entering the restoration market. The expectations for shopreadiness by shop owners and the often perceived lack of preparedness of students cause RPM to continue looking for impactful additions/alternatives for educational programs, such as “junior year abroad”-style in-shop, credit-earning internships. Restoration work is, and always will be, a crossgenerational, cross-cultural environment and RPM contributes to the national conversation about working together.
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We've had great successes from coast-to-coast, including hosting impactful Summit Meetings, Shop Hops, Off To The Races with RPM, hundreds of students-teachers-parents to Concours and auctions and awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants – funding restoration programs and equipment, scholarships, gap-funding, internships and apprenticeships. In addition, we have been building communities of collectors-clubs-shops-schools-students in automotive hot spots – and some warm spots – while stimulating the educational pipeline to include restoration & preservation at the high school level, where education is still free! Our formula for success is simple – find the above-andbeyond-the-call-of-duty-teachers and reach out to them with opportunities for their students – and it enables us to be successful in our first-time programs, based on participation and follow-up outcomes. That simple formula includes connecting the dots, like we did with East Syracuse Minoa High School who we read about in a Hemmings article in May. That story inspired us to start a conversation with the instructor, which lead to student outreach with a complimentary program, a site visit, and suggested funding opportunities through the instructor’s network! With strong ties to high schools around the country, RPM becomes an informal recruiter for postsecondary schools offering automotive restoration technology programs, like McPherson College, Pennsylvania College of Technology and The Academy of Art University, or a classic car culture, like Alfred State College. RPM watches and tracks about 90 high schools and post-secondary schools with automotive programs, car clubs and car shows. To date, we are aware of five schools developing restoration curriculum, some using our curriculum sampler as a guide – Truman College (IL) among them. Career Services are becoming a vital part of RPM’s mentoring, offered to any student with heritage in their heart and an interest in restoration & preservation as a career path., not just the students of grant awardees, although they are our priority. While we have offered these services previously and informally, a big demand in 2017 caused us to organize and formalize them with a name and definition. Career Services are offered to vetted students pursuing paid internships and apprenticeships and graduates pursuing full-time, entry-level employment at restoration shops. Among other things, we work one-onone with students, coaching them about their resumes, letters-of-introduction, car guy stories and portfolios and conducting mock interviews, picking up where the schools leave off. Additionally, students are coached about how to pursue and get work experiences that help “replace those hours” and add to their skill-knowledge-experience base. As trusted allies, we will mentor these students through graduation and into their careers. A volunteer corps will be the workforce supporting these services. Already some of RPM’s ambassadors have expressed interest in becoming part of the corps, with training and orientation expected in early 2018. The mirror image of Career Services is “recruiting services” for shops, which is already happening informally in Arizona, Illinois and Pennsylvania. RPM does not place students in shops but connects the shops with a number of students and it is up to both parties to work through the interview-hiring process to determine “fit.” RPM coaches shop owners about their communication tools, like company profiles and job descriptions, and reminds them about the mentorship role they play for restoration students with limited experience, either as interns, apprentices or entry-level workers. With a growing awareness that shops vary greatly – number of employees, number and quality of projects, shop environment, the range of benefits, etc. – RPM is examining the “fitness” of some shops seeking a relationship with RPM to get to students. To be part of the RPM Network, shops have to have a mentorship mindset and recognize their role as part of the restoration educational pipeline, now and in the future. In fact, because of RPM this mindset trickles over into shop-to-shop relationships among
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shops meeting, with shop owners helping shop owners with small business financial management and succession planning. Some selected highlights of 2017, which help shape our planning for 2018: 1. The RPM Foundation has enjoyed rapid success – especially programmatically, over the past three years and is faced with resulting demands that can only be managed effectively with adequate staffing and a growing volunteer corps. Staff remains at 3 employees (2 FT Chicago + 1 PT Detroit) + 15 ambassadors + 11 Board Members + 1 contractor. The deep commitment of RPM’s celebrity ambassador and volunteer ambassadors plus a passionate staff enable RPM to travel extensively, leveraging other events and programs which enable us to keep costs down. This kind of travel – and our regular “touches” and engagement via telephone, email and postal mail – also enables RPM to maintain and cultivate the RPM Network comprised of schools, students, shops, clubs and collectors – and a hub of connections and opportunities. Employed staff have the same above-and-beyond mindset as the stellar instructors with whom we work and rely on to get to the next generation of craftsmen and artisans. 2. Grant applications received over three grant cycles (December 2016, March and August 2017) for the year totaled 82, up from 56 in 2016 and 35 in 2015. Active outreach and recruiting – of both schools and institutions, through direct contact, social channels, postings and pushings – plus strong support services have enabled us to increase grant applications by almost 150%. 3. In 2017, RPM has impacted 825 students across the United States – impacted by complimentary services and programs – including Shop Hops, Off To The Races and Career Services – scholarships and program funding, sharing resources and/or benefitting from funding. An RPM map of the United States graphically lays out program offerings and grant awardees. 4. The next generation of craftsmen and artisans are seeing how their future customers use their collector cars, motorcycles and boats through complimentary RPM Programs. These programs expanded to expose restoration students to all the ways their customers/collectors might use their vehicles: o Showing (Concours, car shows and related events) o Racing (On-track, wheel-to-wheel and solo competition) o Touring (Road and endurance tours such as Copper State 1000 or Peking-to-Paris) o Buying & Selling (Auctions, boutique dealerships, appraisals) RPM’s complimentary programs include: SHOP HOPS get restoration students – who have “heritage in their hearts” – to shops, meeting the owners and shop teams. They bring their resumes, letters, portfolios and business cards to leave with the shop managers. They dress as if they were meeting their next employer. The projects they see include full restorations, racing car performance and repairs, touring prepping and getting cars and motorcycles ready for show or sale. SHOWING The Concours Experience which gets students to the car show circuit, what we call the “Olympics of the Collector Car Industry”. RACING Off To The Races are designed to show RPM students and instructors how vintage car owners use their cars and motorcycles racing – at the track, in the paddocks, garages and pits with a crew. TOURING Coming in 2018 with a collaboration with the Copper State 1000.
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BUYING & SELLING Behind the Scenes at The Auctions gets the students to the auction previews and sales with tours of behind-the-scenes guided by auction company staff. CAREER SERVICES Helping restoration students seeking paid internships, apprenticeships or employment with resume and letter review, mock interviews, dressing for success, sources for business cards, etc. o Example: Off To The Races With RPM – Watkins Glen is SVRA’s US Vintage Grand Prix in September, had 60 students from Alfred State College, Pennsylvania College of Technology and East Syracuse Minoa High School convening at IMRRC (International Motor Racing Research Center). They toured the track paddocks and garages, pitcrewing for Donovan Motorsports (located in Lenox, MA) that had two racers running their 1961-1962 Jaguars and meeting key racers and their teams with RPM Ambassador Lyn St. James as our host. Program costs are typically only president’s travel, collaterals, snacks and water and photographer. Celebrity ambassador travel costs were absorbed by SVRA. The track and SVRA provide volunteers, admission was complimentary as was buffet lunch and beverages, RPM suite was complimentary and dinners were absorbed by the shop/race team. o In our program efforts, RPM continually solicits feedback from students, instructors, employers and contributors to not only make sure we are hitting the target, but that we are clearly communicating our plan of attack. Recently, someone asked me if RPM’s “Off to the Races” program was meant to breed new vintage racers. While that may be a peripheral result, it is not the program’s focus. RPM’s “Off to the Races” uses the vivid sights and sounds unique to the racetrack to demonstrate the exciting vocational opportunities available to young people within vintage motorsports. 5. Students are our greatest tool for fundraising. In 2014, RPM did not have direct access to students through the schools they attended due to privacy laws and school policies. We created complimentary programs noted above which required student registration in order to participate, giving us their names, emails and cell numbers. Today, we have over 400 RPM students – which is what we call them even though we don’t have a school! – that are part of the RPM Network around the United States. 6. Our complimentary programs are easily replicated by schools, institutions and clubs. RPM is eager to share approaches, desired outcomes and access to our network. Grant awardee Judson High School in Live Oak, TX is using RPM’s Shop Hop approach for their field trip to local restoration shops, which RPM funded. “Program Kits” – materials for instructors to replicate RPM Programs, on-their-own, with support of RPM Network, will be developed and shared with schools in the RPM Network in 2018, enabling students to explore their future workplaces and meet their future customers using their vintage vehicles. 7. Internally, RPM has kept the Marketing & Communications team at AAT busy with weekly, if not daily, social media postings and we have expanded website pages to include other scholarship sources RPM has discovered along-the-way. New OPPORTUNITIES and RESOURCES pages lists paid and volunteer jobs around the United States and tools to use when looking for a job, which RPM posts and pushes to our network.
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As demonstrated with “Off to the Races,” RPM is working to encourage an understanding of the unique skills required in each of these aspects of the hobby which created the Collector Car Industry. At Watkins Glen, four of the 60 students lined up summer 2018 internships. Undoubtedly, more of those attending will have job opportunities as a result of their being introduced to racers, collectors, pit crews and shop owners. FUNDRAISING RPM believes that the main source of funding RPM is the individual collector, with various reasons to donate to a cause – confident about their investment because of good performance and results, trust in the organization’s leadership and management, serving the community or paying back. While students benefit tremendously from our complimentary programs, they were also designed to establish strong ties with collectors. All RPM’s complimentary programs include face-to-face contact with collectors. In addition to the students, shop owners, collection managers and instructors are key resources for RPM, acting informally as RPM ambassadors, spreading the word enthusiastically and connecting us with collectors who become donors. Case Study We met Brian Donovan of Donovan Motorcar Services and Donovan Motorsports Race Team in Lenox, MA in November 2015 during an exploratory tour of the Albany-area and have been in touch ever since. His is a Jaguar-specific shop. This past May, Brian presented RPM with an idea of becoming a sponsor and collaborating with RPM and SVRA at Watkins Glen, the good program results you read about above. In late July, Brian told one of his customers about RPM, who contacted RPM and requested materials so he and the other Board Members of their family foundation could deliberate about a donation – which they hand-delivered to RPM in Watkins Glen. Their family foundation usually only supports equestrian initiatives but they solved that by looking at RPM as supporting students who work with horseless carriages of varying horsepower. Their donation was $5,000. To participate actively in vintage racing, the collector/car owner must be wealthy. And they understand that they need a support team/crew and spending money is part of the sport. Of all the ways collectors use their vehicles, racing costs the most and attracts the wealthiest – more than showing, touring and buying and selling. Also, vintage racers are competitive – often very competitive – and they appear to be activists in their hobby, unlike collectors showing and touring with their vehicles. Since 2015, they have been a targeted prospect group, with good results. In 2017 and with Off To The Races, we have embraced the racing community under the leadership of RPM celebrity ambassador Lyn St. James, whose passion for mentoring and profound belief in RPM’s mission and vision run deep. RPM has sponsors in SVRA and Donovan Motorsports and 50+ individual donors at the $1,200 gift level and higher. Many of these donors were not part of AAT/ACM’s targeted prospects – so all “new blood”. Again, we are not trying to cultivate the next generation of vintage racers; we are trying to connect automotive students with their future customers while seeing how those future customers use their collector cars! RPM has a lot for donors to invest in: the heritage concept, the next generation of craftsmen and artisans, a renaissance of hands-on education, the future of the hobby and the future of their shops. We “touch” major donors and potential major donors with telephone calls and handwritten notes. When we plan our travel, we first look at our targets local to our travel and arrange meetings with them. We include them in our student programs but also in our Breakfasts With the Board and Up Close With RPM luncheons, meetings designed to report back the impact of what we are doing and how we are doing it. We follow-up with handwritten thank you notes and telephone calls. We postal mail renewal
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asks and initial asks. Our observation is that it takes 6-7 touches before a potential donor will consider giving and 2-3 touches for renewing donors. Right now, RPM has $600,000 of “asks” “out there.” In all, two of us are managing 575 donors and targets, between Lyn St. James and me. Separately, we have another 800+ clubs, shops and Hagerty policyholders to whom we have sent direct mailings. RPM has a blended focus on major and minor donors and moving donors to give to the big picture. We can do better with matching donations, anniversary appeals and donation renewals. We need more money to be able to fund more and operate effectively, and fundraising has been a top priority. With the new staffing, we are accomplishing some of the goals we created last year and implemented this year. Case Study RPM Foundation relies solely on private funding and donations from collectors, corporations and clubs like PNR CCCA. In 2016, the club donated $5,000 to RPM and influenced another $5,000 from individual club members during one of their monthly meetings. “Spontaneous giving” is what we called it at the time. Our financial health is based on winning continued support. We take this very seriously and attempt to renew a gift at the anniversary of the gift. We try to prove investment impact to the club leadership and members through written correspondence and Impact Luncheons, which always include RPM students. The club is reluctant to become a repeat donor because they don’t want organizations like RPM to rely on them, despite proving our investment worthiness. Alternative to receiving a club donation and with the approval PNR CCCA’s Board of Directors, a 200-household postal mailing from the club’s president solicited donations for RPM plus RPM was featured in the most recent issue of their magazine, The Bumper Guardian. To date, RPM has received $6,000 in individual donations from club members. THOUGHT LEADERSHIP With RPM’s successes come greater significance in the marketplace, and added responsibility. Increasingly, we find ourselves in a thought leadership role, providing schools and their Boards, some media and industry executives with our global perspective on restoration education and shop-readiness. We have written several articles about “the lost hours” and we are informally tackling what else can be done to replace those hours and get the car-loving next generation really ready to work in shops. At a critical time in the evolution of the automobile and the automotive services workforce, RPM stands as a thought-leader in studying and promoting the need for adequate training, recruiting and placing of the highly-specialized technicians and craftsmen that will carry forward our American heritage. RPM is also the likely source for compiling and creating Collector Car Industry data, which doesn’t really exist at the schools nor the businesses at the moment. Data would include job placement and retention, wages and benefits, number of shops, types of shops, etc. For some of RPM’s grant awardees that have offered restoration programs for 15 years or longer, like McPherson College at 41 years, we have been having conversations about innovation and the role they play in bringing innovation to the marketplace. This might also be a conversation with some of the more well-established national clubs – what can they do to engage with and support the four categories/focal points of collector car uses and the next generation of craftsmen and artisans? The 2018 Strategic Plan, which follows, is more about continuing the momentum and refinement rather than new, although there are some new concepts worth experimenting with and exploring.
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Ideas are plentiful. Aspects of RPM’s operations are turnkey. This will be another good year, because of our passion, belief and desire. 2018 STRATEGIC PRIORITIES 1. Fundraising & Engagement: Build RPM’s future with financial security. 2. Education & Industry: Get a bigger presence on the national stage and with key influencers. Inspire ways to replace “those lost hours” with work experiences and remove any roadblocks. 3. Grants: In addition to grant awards, support institutions, schools and students with nonfunded initiatives, like used equipment donations from shops to schools. 4. Marketing & Communications: Everything, all year, is content marketing – telling a good story and providing useful information, as AAT, AAT/RPM or RPM. 5. Programs, Events & Meetings: Lead the conversation focusing on “Replacing Those Lost Hours” while continuing to create additional RPM programs that contribute to replacing those hours. 6. Administrative: In all disciplines of the organization, get systematic with report-writing and reporting. Create a list of Core Values to live by. 7. 2018 Industry Concentration: Unchanged from 2017 – Hot Rods and Custom Builds, and continuing with Collector Cars-Motorcycles-Boats, Historic Racing and Performance. 2018 GOALS & OBJECTIVES 1. Fundraising & Engagement: Create 5-year financial plan; stimulate individual collectors/donors to support AAT and RPM meaningfully; renew Hagerty’s multi-year pledge to RPM Foundation; build the case for RPM’s being the charity beneficiary of car events around the United States; blend focus on major and minor donors and moving donors to give to the big AAT picture; identify other sources of revenue to supplement donations and implement revenue-generating programs; fill two remaining Board seats; continue hosting Breakfasts With the Board and Up Close With RPM luncheons; discover psychology of one-time giving/one-time donors and convert them. 2. Education & Industry: Develop an RPM research function; create job board function; determine how many restoration shops there are, the work they do and how many jobs need filling; find solutions to short-term housing issues for interns and apprentices; research the Collector Car Industry and track “market movement;” support instructors with continuing restoration educational opportunities that earn them credit and salary increases; learn where restoration fits in the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ classifications of work in the US. 3. Grants: Develop a “program” to broker and support restoration programs needing equipment and tools, with equipment donations from shops and manufacturers to schools; continue to recruit strong grant candidates; explore “innovation” applications; revisit RPM’s “Funding Philosophy” and number of students impacted; touch/impact 800 - 1,000 students in 2018; begin submitting our own RPM grants for funding support to family and corporate foundations. 4. Marketing & Communications: Take the lead as an industry influencer and creator of market-relevant programs; integrate RPM message in AAT appeals; continue with strong “manual” communications approach with constituent relationships; honor teachers and craftsmen for exceptional achievements; build a portfolio of great stories about RPM, its students and constituents.
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5. Programs, Events & Meetings: Launch RPM’s Apprenticeship Program with six Top Shops; create two pilot programs for Master Classes – small, fee-based, intensive educational programs with master craftsmen; lead the conversation and participate in the discussion as hosts, guests or featured speakers/panelists; new discussion topic: “Replacing Those Lost Hours;” establish a complimentary program format for “TOURING.” 6. Administrative: Continue to instill regard for data and core values and the need to have it for RPM’s future. 8. 2018 Industry Concentration: Unchanged from 2017 – learn more about Hot Rods and Custom Builds to understand their place in the restoration industry, and continue with Collector Cars-Motorcycles-Boats, Historic Racing and Performance. 2018 TACTICAL PLANNING 1. Fundraising & Engagement: 365 Days of Fundraising + Convert Special Donors a. Coordinate all of RPM’s fundraising efforts with AAT’s Development Team, including Major Prospect Review Meetings and AAT Initiatives (The Drive Home III, Amelia Island Concours, Barber Motorcycle Museum, others) i. Collaborate with AAT’s leadership and their efforts to encourage donors of AAT to earmark gifts for all entities of the Trust – RPM, ACM, AAT b. $758,000 in total year-round funds raised – asks, proposals, renewals and appeals i. 45-60% of President’s time devoted to fundraising, year-round ii. 6-8 touches pre-“ask” for donors at $1,000 and above iii. Dedicated fundraising “administrative” day each week – Mondays: • Prepare and send 5 Ask Letters/week • Connect with 2 major donors • Review renewed commitments c. Major Donors – Reset goals to the reality (crowded marketplace with a lot of market movement with an extraordinary number of natural disasters and a limited number of major donor potential); additionally, target Auction Houses, SEMA Member corporations, leverage SVRA and pursue largest shops d. Minor Donors – Continue to leverage our strong and extensive outreach to build a larger minor donor base – including RPM Alumni and their families i. Young Professional Network = RPM’s YPN; junior board-style engagement ii. Ted Hersey, Trent Abbott e. Board of Directors – fill 2 Board seats, targeting 3-4 candidates f. Become a car event’s charitable beneficiary – The Speed Soiree (AZ), Celebration of Speed (NC, Petty’s Garage), other g. Explore forms of online fundraising, like CharityBuzz, and use for one appeal h. In-Kind Donations – continue enjoying the generosity of donors, gifting RPM with advertisements, facility use, materials and supplies, speaking engagements (Jim Menneto, Lyn St. James, and Diane Fitzgerald) i. Fundraising Event – gala-style, begin planning for January 2019 i. Cohosts: Tech Force Foundation + RPM Foundation ii. Dinner, Silent/Live Auctions, Raise the Paddle j. Collector/Shop Fundraising Formula – 2 new collectors/shops in 2018: i. 5-Year Pledge, signed agreement ii. Mailing from collector/shop owner to their list – 200 postal + 3,000 emailing at their expense (within 1 month from pledge signing)
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iii. Fundraising event at shop at their expense, benefitting RPM (within 1-2 months of mailings and/or well-timed with other car event/s) iv. Internship site for 10-week summer intern for local high school/postsecondary student and/or student from McPherson/Penn College (RPM gap funding possible through grant application process) v. Employer of one of those students, possibly vi. Repeat k. Identify new sources of revenue i. Sports Car Market JOB BOARD – advertising, controlled by RPM ii. Free-to-Fee – Programs, Services and Resource-sharing, following pilot programs iii. Sponsors for RPM events (restricted) – My Car Story, Glovebox, Inc., Donovan Motorsports iv. Classic car sales, celebrity cars – Lyn St. James v. RPM Kits – Materials for instructors to replicate RPM Programs, on-theirown, with support of RPM Network vi. On Hold: Subscriptions to UNDER THE HOOD vii. On Hold: Restoration Shop Association Membership, benefitting with RPM services and shared resources: • Association Membership fee for member benefits, including providing back-office document templates, vetting talent prospects for apprentices/employee ($2,500/year) • Consulting Services – formalize RPM’s offerings of services provided (organizing, advising about job descriptions/letters of agreement, career pathing, recruiting and enrollment in auto tech programs, budget development) and • Shared Resources (communications support, event support, backoffice tools, turnkey documents, non-proprietary documents) l. Support grant writing for unrestricted funding through family, private and corporate foundations, working with AAT’s Development Team 2.
Education & Industry: Make it easy for anyone who can contribute to our movement to add to our movement a. Touch 850 young people in 2018 (2016=725; 2017=825) b. Value of Education – Study restoration curricula to determine value ($29,000/year x 2-4 years = $116,000 vs. 2 years in a shop); consider “junior year abroad” approach to adding shop time to post-secondary programs (6-12 months internships, renewable and earning school credit while being paid); consider by-passing educational system for 100% hands-on Apprenticeship Program for high school students through RPM; explore earn-as-you-learn options with shops c. Research the Collector Car Industry – Restoration shops and employment in them, alumni career paths and earning realities; study how RPM funding impacts the industry; research what is funded in restoration education – expansion, salaries, programs/ equipment, scholarships – and where there are needs-gaps; identify established-growing-potential automotive hot spots i. Hire research intern to conduct research of restoration industry with job/earnings potential, total number of shops, employment data; alumni
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d. e. f. g. h. i. j.
employment tracking; employability across industry lines (applied skills, multi-skills training, skill-juggling, cross-training); analyze micro-business nature of shops (stability, longevity and career feasibility) ii. Develop “shop fitness” criterion to help decide which shops RPM works with Research Vintage Motorcycle Industry – to learn how it contributes to the restoration industry, if at all. Hypothesis: It may be that motorcycles are tools for learning but not a pathway to careers. www.rpm.foundation – Post restoration shop job openings, internships/apprenticeships, other scholarships for the RPM Network to access; push through social media; advertise in Sports Car Market Instructor’s Workload – Support high school and post-secondary instructors with committed volunteer corps Continuing Education Credits – Explore restoration programs around the US that could fulfill a high school teacher’s school district’s requirement for continuing education, which enables an increase in salary. Penetrate the Automotive Aftermarket Industry to determine and understand sales to restoration shops; access best practices from the industry Explore RPM’s role, if any, with STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) and STEAM (Art) programming Car Clubs – connect with students in their communities (i.e. Capital Region Jaguar Club of New York with Alfred State College students living near Albany, NY)
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Grants: Determine RPM’s supporting role as grant awardees successfully expand their programs a. Obligations & Responsibilities – Revisit “Funding Philosophy” restrictions on supporting salaries and new programs; consider that as programs we have funded expand, we may have obligations to their continued success and growth b. Applicants – Continue identifying and recruiting strong grant candidates, funding fit 5s c. 2018 Grant Awards – Maintain budgeted grant awards at $250,000 d. Understand impact of RPM grants through grant fulfillment tracking and documentation; study how RPM funding impacts the industry (possible 2018 research project) e. Building Community with Grant Awardees – Bring grant awardees together each application cycle for an orientation program, including using KoolProjects website to project progress-reporting f. Mentor Strategy – Through RPM’s grant support services, spend extra time reviewing drafted applications of the instructors without grant-writers and the students with limited writing experience g. Application – Revamp application and materials requested, which are programfocused; develop application for individuals for internships and apprenticeships h. Tools & Uniforms – funding these hard goods to extend RPM’s reach to more individual students
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Marketing & Communications: Push, don’t just post – and get in front of many multi-person audiences a. Coordinate RPM’s efforts with AAT’s Marketing & Communications Team and PCG. b. Telling & Making Stories: Content Marketing approach to all we do
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c. Fundraising Appeals – Produce 5-8 Appeals with unique, separate targets, collaborating with AAT and coordinated with ACM, utilizing Riverside Graphics as the production house i. Hagerty Policyholder Renewal donors ii. Restoration Shops iii. 2-3 Car Clubs (SAH, VMCCA, Corvair Society) iv. Lyn St. James List v. Grandparents Day (September 9, 2018) vi. Antique & Classic Boat Society (Carla Gernhoffer, Hagerty) d. The Story of RPM – PowerPoint presentation (website, continuous-loop backdrop, introductory); update throughout the year, balance our quantity of “gritty photos” with “beauty shots” e. AUTObiographies – Continue collecting from hosted-students as part of “registration form”; begin collecting stories from RPM grant awardees and alumni, hosted students (funded vs. hosted) f. MailChimp Outreach – Grant Deadlines (3-phases), Appeals, Post-Program Fundraising g. Television Shows – Create list of all current television shows focused on cars, classic and new, and determine which have created influence on young audience – explore a segment on RPM, seek funding, advertise on the show, promote that list h. RPM Newsletter UNDER THE HOOD – published as staff is able; additional administrative volunteers could handle 3-4 issues/year i. Car Club Newsletter-Ad Strategy – Contributing editorial content to the print/online newsletters/magazine and placing ½-page or full-page ads; end-of-year “ask” editorial with “Adopt RPM” message j. Awards of Excellence Strategy – 5 awards for teacher, student, shop, club, corporation presented at TBD; have shop or school fabricate awards k. RPM Website Initiatives i. Search capability developed; historic information and materials added ii. OPPORTUNITIES – Job Board: job openings (experienced, entry-level), internships/apprenticeships, volunteer work iii. RESOURCES – Housing Guide, “Hiring A New Graduate”, Listing of high schools and post-secondary schools with degree and certificate programs/curriculum in automotive restoration technology iv. _________________ - Project cars needed, for schools v. Donors & Sponsors – Homepage, with logos vi. Being Considered: adding Clubs & Memberships and Magazines & Publications that offer student discounts, local opportunities l. KoolProjects – post all projects, including ACM projects; push through social media. m. Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn: post photos/captions + video clips as frequently as possible. Project photos, program photos, event photos; interesting industry information – stories from other sources (Hemmings, AutoWeek, ClassicCar.Com). n. Advertisements i. Industry Publications – Hemmings, Sports Car Market, Motorcycle News ii. Automotive Publications – AAA Living iii. Concours d’Elegance – Program Book advertisements only; no gift bag collaterals
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iv. Auctions – Program Book advertisements v. Car Club Newsletters and Magazines o. RPM Hypotheses – Create materials articulating the cultural shifts/revolutions between 1950s-to-today that cause the need for RPM to exist: 1950s-1960s life experience (1,152 hours) + high school shop (648 hours)(1800 hours total), 1960s1970s only high school shop (648 hours), 1980s-1990s no life experience and no shop experience – only college-prep, both parents working – changing roles from teaching to entertaining, shops + industry now and forever are part of the educational pipeline (formal?) p. Messaging – What We Do: Finding & Funding; Mentoring Pathways to Success; Building Community and Stimulating the Educational Pipeline i. Shared common belief that it is our responsibility to educate the next generation of stewards – protecting our American automotive heritage; your hands-on advocates in the “field” – we’ll make it happen ii. “We’re raising $1,000,000 in 2018 to meet the needs of educating the next generation of restoration craftsmen and women, and we need your support” iii. Donate to One; Benefit Many – illustrating RPM’s reach, local and national iv. Mentor-Motivation-Direction-Support – what we give the next generation v. Mentoring is a team sport vi. Endless opportunity – determination and vision – impact and influence. vii. Shops are now and forever part of the educational pipeline to shop-readiness viii. Students are the masters of their own “experience pathways,” helping to replace those hours. ix. RPM Foundation has three program areas: providing Services, sharing Resources and awarding Grants. Everyone associated with RPM and delivering its messages needs to blend our grant-giving with our other two program areas! x. Utilize collected testimonials in messaging q. Study the psychology of giving to understand the motivation of donors/prospects HOW WE TALK ABOUT THE RPM FOUNDATION WHO WE ARE – Modified June 2017 (Ashley Bice, Tabetha Hammer) The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by the RPM Foundation safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults. The RPM Foundation is based in Chicago with an office in Tacoma, Washington, and Ambassadors in 11 states and abroad. For more information, visit www.rpm.foundation or call (855) 537-4579. RPM’s MISSION RPM Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that the critical skills necessary to preserve and restore collector vehicles are not lost, by providing scholarships and educational grants to students and organizations committed to hands-on training of future craftsmen. RPM works closely with educational institutions advising them on the curricula necessary for training of professional craftsmen, as well as helping them identify the proficiencies needed for success in the field. RPM facilitates student
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scholarships, internships and full-time apprenticeships to ensure students receive the necessary formal education, knowledge and hands-on training to enter the profession successfully. RPM’s GOALS & OBJECTIVES – Modified June 2017 (Ashley Bice, Tabetha Hammer) 1. Preserve and promote America’s automotive, motorcycle and marine treasures. 2. Cultivate a new generation of craftsmen skilled in the art of automotive, motorcycle and marine restoration and preservation. 3. Promote the importance of the skilled trades and the many career opportunities within the industry. 4. Create opportunities for young people who have an interest in vehicles to learn from professional educators, master craftsmen and industry leaders. 5. Develop partnerships with a wide-spectrum of the collector hobby and industry, including shows, races, driving rallies, clubs and businesses to promote the education of necessary skills to secure America’s heritage and culture. RPM’s VISION – Modified June 2017 (Ashley Bice, Tabetha Hammer) 1) YOUNG PEOPLE – That every passionate, young car enthusiast who loves everything about collector cars, motorcycles and boats learns that there are viable, varied career opportunities in North America focused on the Collector Vehicle Industry, including restoration, by way of exceptional high school and post-secondary educational programs, and they are able to take advantage of them; 2) VEHICLES – That the craftsmanship, skills, knowledge, tools, processes and techniques survive and thrive for generations to come by filling the educational pipeline with the next generation of craftsmen and artisans, the stewards protecting and enjoying our heritage; and, 3) IMPACT – That the Collector Vehicle Industry, including schools, is organized and centralized with the help of RPM Foundation, providing information, services and a strong network critical to industry development and growth.
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Programs, Events & Meetings: Every time we have an audience, we have an opportunity a. Coordinate RPM’s efforts with AAT’s Marketing & Communications Team and PCG. b. The Apprenticeship Program – launch for May 2018 graduates; 6 Top Shops TBD: i. Automotive Restorations (NJ) – Steve Babinski ii. Kevin Kay Restorations (CA) – Kevin Kay iii. Motion Products, Inc. (WI) – Wayne Orby iv. Precision Motor Cars (PA) – Keith Flickinger v. The Creative Workshop (FL) –Jason Wenig vi. Prueitt Automotive Restoration (PA) – David Prueitt c. RPM Board Meetings i. Scottsdale, AZ – Thursday, January 18th ii. Detroit, MI – Thursday, June 7th iii. Tacoma, WA – Saturday, September 8th d. Continue to develop RPM’s complimentary programs: i. Shop Hops – Arizona (January), Texas (May, NASA), Michigan (June), other • Establish SHOP HOPs in other RPM Hot Spots and get sponsors to cover costs (time + fuel + 1 lunch + design/production/flyer + AUTObiographies = $2,500/Shop Hop)
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ii. The Concours Experience – Texas (Keels & Wheels), California, Pennsylvania iii. Off To the Races with RPM – Wisconsin, Indianapolis, New York iv. Behind The Scenes at the Auctions – Arizona, Illinois, Florida v. _________________ (touring) – TBD vi. Equipment & Tools Donations – broker, for schools requesting funding from RPM vii. Master Classes for Restoration Students – 2 pilot programs; small, fee-based, intensive educational programs with master craftsmen, helping to replace those lost hours viii. Develop “kits” to enable schools/teachers to copy and implement RPM Programs ix. Use SurveyMonkey immediately post-program to collect feedback Maintain combined travel distance in 2018 at no more than 90,000 miles (2015=57,000; 2016 = 79,000; 2017=90,000) i. 7++ Concours ii. 2-5 Auctions The Classic Auto Show – March 2-3-4, 2018, Los Angeles; RPM responsible for the Restoration Stage Speaking Engagements – Source panels/seminars/moderators in the industry at car events around the United States (Concours panels/seminars, conference moderators); maintain/establish RPM as market and thought leader and influencer for this industry i. The PRI Show/RTBC Conference ii. The SEMA Show iii. HVA/SAH Conference iv. Career Days (Ohio Technical College, Collision Repair Education Foundation) RPM-produced Events i. Breakfast With the Board – Scottsdale, Amelia Island, Hershey – 20-30 guests + 9 RPM Board Members to bring the RPM conversation to the highest level of influencers in the Collector Car Industry, while soliciting support (complimentary) ii. Up Close With RPM Luncheons – Tacoma, Chicago, Detroit iii. RPM Summit Meeting – Indianapolis, IN + _________, CA; Audience – All Constituents invited; Panel Discussions – “Replacing Those Lost Hours” (complimentary) iv. Cocktail Receptions – Las Vegas, Chicago; Audience – Mix of constituents (complimentary) v. Impact Dinners – Major Donors (complimentary) 2 Signature Events – Presence and Promotions i. The Drive Home III, Dania Beach/Boca Raton, FL – hosted Cars & Coffee with program (January) ii. The Wheels & Heels Gala – hosted RPM Table (September)
Administrative: Get systematic with good habits and core values a. Collaborate and coordinate all aspects of this plan with AAT, ACM, especially Development and Marketing & Communications.
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b. Add 1 FT staff (Mentorship & Grants Administrator), 3 volunteer ambassadors (Washington State, Northern California, New England), 1 paid celebrity ambassador (anywhere; Collector) c. Explore legal requirements for working with/hosting students younger than 18 years old; d. Resources & Relationships Strategy – Develop a Volunteer Corps to support auto tech instructors who receive RPM grants and RPM’s Career Services; update and publish Board By-Laws and Board Resource Book; actively recruit administrative volunteers and add 2-3 more in Chicago; write an Ambassador’s Guide Book (identifying donors, what photos to shoot/tell a story, exchanging cards) e. Infrastructure Enhancement – Build research aspect of RPM; create better, simpler, shorter reporting methods/tools; continue collecting data and populating Altru records for donors and prospects; automate student registration processes and feedback surveys; utilize RPM’s workbooks and worksheets for data collecting and tracking; populate AAT servers with final files of documents created f. Develop a list of Core Values that guide the way we think and what we do, drafted here: RPM’s 9 Core Values (draft) Dependability & Reliability – Team members get things done on time and meet expectations. 1. Integrity – Team members share the quality of being honest and having strong moral principles, in all we do. Structure & Clarity – Our team has clear goals and well-defined roles within the Foundation. Meaning – Our work has personal significance to each one of us. Impact & Focus – Our group believes that our work is purposeful and positively impacts the greater good. Fairness – We make a conscious effort to be evenhanded with all of our constituents, internal and external. Generosity, Hospitality & Graciousness – We give liberally us ourselves, treat others warmly and are benevolent toward one another. Mentorship Mindset – We act as loyal advisers to one another and everyone we work with, especially the next generation. Collaborative & Task-Oriented – We cooperate and work with one another to achieve our desired goals and welcome the opportunity to share the benefits of the good results of our work. 7.
2018 Industry Concentration: Continuing to expand focus to include Hot Rods and Custom Builds, and continuing with Collector Cars-Motorcycles-Boats, Historic Racing and Performance a. Delicately balance the sometimes culturally-conflicting worlds of classic cars with newer vintage cars and the cars that attract the next generation
In looking ahead as we begin 2018, here some additional, critical elements to what we do and how we do it: 1. The president’s key roles in 2018 continue to be managing momentum – carefully selecting the right opportunities to use our limited time and resources – and managing finances, with an emphasis on fundraising. a. At our current staffing level, we don’t have the capacity to grow, either by expanding existing RPM programs (Apprenticeship, Shop Hop, Off To The Races) or creating
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new ones (Shop Association, Volunteer Shop Staff). Programs require organizing and managing. We have conceptualized and experimented with programs, with some excellent successes. But to develop them and run them properly, we need either more staff or a way to have schools and other organizations own them (RPM “Kits”). At our current staffing, we can strive to reach our numbers in 2018, but after that we go flat on growth because of capacity issues. The future financial health of RPM requires pledges and an endowment. Collectors are at the heart of the restoration industry – classic car owners/“users” and shop customers. If there is price sensitivity for services, the impact of that will trickle down to the craftsmen and artisans, and be felt with salary/hourly rates, benefits and stagnant niche market. The future growth of our niche of the Collector Car Industry will come only with greater financial commitments and more fundraising so RPM can fund more programs and projects.
2. Actualizing some of the details in the 2018 Plan, has begun, and roadblocks have been encountered, including: a. The continuation of a “persistent hangover” from 2013-2014, impacting fundraising b. Constraints with hiring, including contract labor (researcher, writer) c. Succession planning for the president’s role is a Board responsibility. To support their work, these ideas have been floated: i. In the event of the president’s untimely death or health issues that prevent leading the organization, a potential interim successor has been identified among RPM’s Ambassadors. ii. In the event of retiring, the president is willing to become a Board Member for the usual duration, per the By-Laws, and focus on transition, orientation and volunteer support for continuity of momentum.
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Auction Proceeds Raffle Car Clubs Corporations Foundations Individuals Board In-kind Gifts Governments Total Contributions
Account Description
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Total Revenues
Staff Wages Other Department Services Affiliated Entity Services Wages - Bonus Benefits - Health Benefits - Dental Benefits - Vision Benefits - Life Benefits - Flex Spending Benefits - Retirement FICA Benefits - Disability SUTA and L&I Total Wage Expense
$ 873,481.00 $
Catering Commission Cafe Rent Museum Retail Rent Space Rental Miscellaneous Commission Affiliated Entity Distribution Reimbursement of Services Interest Income Total Earned Income
WAGE EXPENSES 61310 61314 61315 61318 61320 61321 61322 61330 61335 61340 61350 61360 61370
$ $
Miscellaneous Income
$
45370 45371 45372 45375 45378 48831 49931 71100
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$
11.00 5,511.00 $
1,000.00
$ 100,000.00 $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ - $ $ 100,000.00 $
$
$
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44000
$
Ticket Sales Slot Car Revenue Racing Simulator Revenue Merchandise Sales Discounts Taken (A/P) Discounts (tickets) Discounts (promotions) Cash Over/Short Vehicle Storage Rental Miscellaneous Rental Museum Parking Revenue Vendor Booth Rental
42201 42203 42204 43000 43050 43060 43070 43520 43700 43705 43706 43750
4,500.00
Progams/Workshops
$
22,500.00 22,500.00
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
$
445,721.00 $
$ 190.00 $
$
190.00 $
$
445,531.00 $
$ 867,970.00 $
$ $ $ $ $ $
56,438.00 $ 4,010.00 275,034.00 15,350.00 33,055.00 45,500.00 16,144.00
65,000.00 $
Actuals through 9/30/2017
$ 52,500.00 $ $ 420,000.00 $ $ 20,000.00 $ $ 250,000.00 $ $ 25,000.00 $ $ 35,470.00 $
$
Budget 2017
40070
EARNED REVENUE 40050 Tours & Events 40060 Group Tour
Acct. Code CONTRIBUTIONS 42050 43200 45350 45400 45450 45500 45600 45650 46150 $ $ $ $ $ $
$
(Incr)/Decr 2017 vs 2018 Assumptions
$
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ 11.00 $ 7,011.00 $
5,000.00 $
$ $ $ 2,000.00 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
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$ $
$
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$ $ 30,000.00 $ 100,000.00 $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ - $ 30,000.00 $ 100,000.00 $
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2017: EventBrite donation; We thought SUMMIT MEETINGS would be a good source of revenue but we didn't have any "ticketed programs" in 2017 and don't expect any in 2018. Summit Meetings, Breakfasts With the Board, Up Closess with RPM are all great "impact gatherings" and should be complimentary, with sponsorships. We want to find additional and alternative revenue streams for RPM - like sales of car donated or shop fees for placing job openings (website, social, Sports Car Market)
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2014-2017 Historic Data; looks like 3 quarters are paid, at $7,500/quarter = $30,000/yr (occupancy costs). Balance of $70,000/yr is part of Staff Wages allocated.
Working number for 2018 is $284,600 (previosuly estimated at $290,600) for three paid staff = $118,000 + $42,000 + $54,000 + employment costs
2,000.00 RPM has a great catalog of branded items that we'll start promoting and selling with vigor in 2018 2017 - $1,000 is from subscriptions to Under The Hood, RPM's newsletter. We don't have a regular editorial schedule for this yet, so there's nothing to sell. 2018 - Shops paying 4,000.00 for RPM's Sports Car Market's JOB POSTING ads. - 2014-2017 Historic Data; Sad‌ 1,500.00 2014-2017 Historic Data
(4,500.00)
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75,000.00 $ 10,000.00 Raise the Paddle/AAT's Annual Gala - 2017 $60,000 of $197,000 raised minus expenses, split between RPM and ACM Museum Education; pre-sell Raise the Paddle $ 40,000.00 $ (12,500.00) Good, strong relationships with clubs have netted better individual donations and not as many club donations. 390,000.00 $ (30,000.00) Hagerty ($350,000) + AAT + Hemmings + SEMA/ARMO companies for sponsorships, not donations, as a focus for new businesses engaged with RPM 30,000.00 $ 10,000.00 Continue to cultivate collectors with family foundations and work with foundations' staffs for progress reporting and gift renewal (Driehaus, Apex) 125,000.00 $ (125,000.00) Half of 2017's projected amount, due to dip in Hagerty Policyholder Renewal donations and non-systematic "gift renewal" process 45,000.00 $ 20,000.00 AAT Board, RPM Board (NOTE: Bill Weyerhauesr $45,000 pledge from June 2017 meeting in Tacoma, WA) 46,500.00 $ 11,030.00 Chicago Office costs, Detroit Office costs $ 751,500.00 $ (116,470.00)
Budget 2018
671,166.50 $ 758,511.00 $ (114,970.00)
11.00 $ 1,336.00 $
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190.00 $
1,135.00 $
669,830.50 $
14,010.00 363,334.00 35,350.00 83,055.00 55,500.00 61,144.00
57,437.50 $
Est. YE 2017
2018 RPM Foundation Budget Assumptions
2018 BUDGET ASSUMPTIONS
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Access Fee Accounting
Advertising
Visitor Promotions Appraisals Auction Costs Vehicle Transport Awards Bad Debt Bank Service Charges Credit Card Fees Late Charge Loan Guarantee Fees Photography Uniforms Signage Fuel Oil/Lubricants Parts Supplies Software Maint and Subscriptions IT Consultant Consultant Fees Agency Fees Contract Labor Decorations Depreciation Dues and Subscriptions Office Equipment Expense Donor Recognition Entrance Fees Equipment Lease Equipment Rental Insurance - Building & Liability Insurance - Vehicles In-Kind Gift - Goods In-Kind Gift - Services Internet Legal Fees Licenses and Permits Selling Fees Cleaning supplies Cleaning service Meals & Entertainment Events - Food & Entertainment Tours & Other Reimbursed Activities Meeting/Cultivation Membership fulfillment Sponsorship Fullfillment Promotional Items
60025 60050
60100
60120 60150 60180 60200 60210 60225 60250 60251 60252 60253 60395 60403 60404 60406 60409 60412 60415 60422 60423 60450 60451 60500 60580 60600 60650 60655 60660 60670 60700 60750 60830 60850 60871 60872 60900 60950 61000 61010 61020 61030 61050 61060 61070 61100 61110 61115 61120 -
$
$
3,250.00
-
$
$
4,500.00 $ 8,700.00 $
$ $
$
35.00 $
1,070.00 $ 4,412.00 $
3,105.00 $ 47.00 $
9,000.00 $ 150.00 $
$ $
$
8,125.00 $ 8,019.00 $
300.00
$
281.00 $ 132.00 $
$ 23,970.00 $ $ 11,500.00 $
500.00 $ - $
10,336.00 $
$ 30,000.00 $
$ $
109.00 $ 369.00 $
1,500.00 $ 3,100.00 $
$ $
$ $ $ $
8,500.00 1,500.00 7,000.00 1,200.00
2,418.00 892.00 4,759.00 41.00
20.00 $
370.00 $ 200.00 $
5,535.00 $
7,789.00 $
$ $ $ $
$ $ $ $
$
- $ 3,500.00 $
9,000.00 $
8,400.00 $
$ $
$
$
$ $ $ $
$
750.00 $
35.00 $
3,370.00 $ 5,912.00 $
3,105.00 $ 122.00 $
34,125.00 $ 8,769.00 $
-
381.00 $ 1,264.00 $
13,536.00 $
109.00 $ 1,909.00 $
2,418.00 1,333.00 5,259.00 91.00
20.00 $
370.00 $ 1,325.00 $
5,355.00 $
8,400.00 $
1,500.00
-
3,500.00 6,000.00
4,000.00 150.00
37,500.00 9,000.00
-
400.00 1,500.00
18,500.00
200.00 1,500.00
3,000.00 1,000.00 5,300.00 150.00
20.00
1,000.00
$ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $
7,500.00 $
$ 8,400.00 $
2014-2017 Historic Data; Based on RPM's accounting activity Sports Car Market (Job Board, Insider's Guide to Restoration), Concours Program Books; RPM is enjoying more complimentary ad placements, especially in Concours Program (1,500.00) Books, than projected; when we pay for advertising, it's for ewsletters/magazines - DMF - Off To The Races Launch with Bobby Rahal's winning Indy car (2,500.00) Master Craftsmen Award that DLM created for AAT ($1,000) + 2 other awards 20.00 Benevity processing fee (5,500.00) Includes Videography & Photography shooting, media drives but not editting services (500.00) For Ambassadors (1,700.00) Banners for Grant Awardees - 4' x 8' vinyl signs for display in grant awardees' shops; 20 new awardees + 5 replacement banners (1,050.00) Car Rentals fuel (1,300.00) Domain renewals + KoolProjects' fee (1,600.00) Allen's Computers' fees + DMF In-Kind Contributions (11,500.00) Lyn St. James' Celebrity Ambassadorship + Bill Hall (writing) + College of Charleston research intern + RPM program interns (100.00) Club membership renewals : AACA, CCCA, Chevrolet Nomad Association, Corvair Society, Others 1,500.00 DMF - Off To The Races Launch media drives; bullhorns or portable sound systems for guided tours at complimentary RPM Programs (300.00) Board Meeting equipment 13,530.00 Chicago Office facility costs; Detroit Offcie facilities costs; telephone + postage + office supplies (2,500.00) Additional Tech Support + Sitecrafting + Graphic Design + production (5,000.00) Morgan Lewis fess - student program forms, program libabilities, revenue streams' due diligence, charitable soliciations due diligence - Annual Report filing, Charitable Solicitation renewals, State Annual Reports (1,000.00) Staff travel costs,Ambassadors' travel costs, Board Meetings post-meetings/entertainment, Donor-Shop-Collector-Club meetings (2,700.00) Impact Gatherings - Breakfast With the Board, Up Close with RPM, Cocktail Hour With RPM, Summit Meetings - Ivy Tech College Leadership Meeting (copies) (1,750.00) T-Shirts, Baseball Caps, Stickers, RPM tabelcloths/banners, Messenger Bags, Van Sneakers, Vests
-
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RPM NET
61150 61200 61250 61260 61270 61400 61450 61451 61455 61500 61550 61551 61600 61601 61602 61603 61604 61605 61606 61607 61608 61609 61611 61612 61620 61640 61650 61660 61699 61700 61750 61770 61800 61810 61815 61830 61840 61850 61860 65020 65040 65500 65503 67731 68831 $1,031.00 $
$20,465.00 $ $287.00 $ $545.00 $ $68.00 $ $
$2,090.00 $ $1,440.00 $ 300,965.00 $
$1,860.00
$37,500.00 $250.00 $500.00 $20,000.00 $100.00
$6,000.00
$ 497,680.00 $ $ 597,680.00 $
Total Expenses
$ 275,801.00 $
122,256.00 $
323,465.00 $
$571.00 $ $189,159.00 $
4,929.00 $
$
$0.00 $250,000.00
4,906.00 $ 15,884.00 $
$ 7,000.00 $ $ 30,000.00 $ 6,900.00 $
152.00 $
1,450.00 $
$
1,374.00 $
550.00 $
$
Mileage Miscellaneous Office Supplies Visitor Supplies Payroll Processing Postage and Delivery Printing and Reproduction Pubilications Design Services Professional Development Rent - Building Rent - Storage Repair & Maint - General Exhibitry - Enhancements Exhibitry - Maintenance Exhibitry - New Exhibits Restoration - Collection Repair & Maint - Service Vehicles Repair & Maint - Collection Maintenance - Grounds Maintenance - Building General Maintenance - Building Systems Property Tax Maintenance - Life Safety Security Small Tools & Equip Staff Recruitment Scholarships Restoration - Drive Home Telephone Title Transfers Trademarks Travel Utilities Parking Volunteer Development Volunteer Appreciation Web Site Employee Appreciation Trade Show Raffles Interest Expense Promotions Ticket Sales - To Admissions Affiliated Entity Distribution Total Other Expense
2,000.00 $ $ 250.00 $ $ $ 7,000.00 $ 20,000.00 $ $ 5,900.00 $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 250.00 $ 250,000.00 $ $ 1,500.00 $ $ $ 30,000.00 $ $ 300.00 $ $ 750.00 $ 5,000.00 $ 100.00 $ $ $ $ 2,500.00 $ - $ $ 435,670.00 $
257,991.75 $ 222,841.00 $
413,174.75 $ 535,670.00 $
383,174.75 $
2,633.75 $ 1,440.00 $
595.00 $ 68.00 $ 100.00 $
337.00 $
26,765.00 $
1,156.00 $
571.00 $ 215,409.00 $
6,329.00 $
7,206.00 $ 20,384.00 $
152.00 $
2,071.00 $
(52,960.00)
(62,010.00)
1,450.00 Staff travel costs, Ambassador travel costs, In-Kind of same (1,200.00) Toner cartridges, paper, envelopes, copies - The UPS Store, FedEx, USPS - Appeals, RPM display materials' shipping, Board Books (10,000.00) Collaterals, Appeals, Board Books, Newsletters, Business Cards, Notepads, meeting program books (1,000.00) JAM Graphics & Design 250.00 Background Checks (staff, volunteers), Monster and Craig's List job opening ads - (See At-A-Glance Cycles 1-23 2017, repeat) (360.00) Cell Phone allowances, AT Conference (7,500.00) Staff travel, Ambassador travel 50.00 Parking as part of travel expenses 250.00 Christmas 2016 - Omaha Steaks for 16 Ambassadors + 2 Administrative Volunteers (15,000.00) Search function added - Seasonal acknowledgements & appreciations (3,500.00) Hosted students, teachers/instructors, parents, ambassadors at complimentary RPM Programs - Barrett-Jackson Scottsdale Auction - Behind The Scenes admission (should be in Promotions Account, line above) (62,010.00)
KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
FUNDRAISING Total Cash Donations Raise The Paddle Total # of Donors Donations Breakout Car Clubs & Associations
2015 $586,019 $40,800 $626,819 4,246 2
2016 $657,256 $50,000 $707,256 3,386 14
2017 $638,346 $60,000 $698,346 2,245 16
Corporations Foundation Grants Individuals In-Kind Gifts
17 3 4,222 2
21 6 3,342 3
19 10 2,197 3
25 10 3,500 3
Board Members $1 Donors Donor Renewals Major Donations $2,500++
9/13 741 NA
10/13 56 NA
11/13 25 20
13/13 0 40
11
25
29
35
4,086
2,986
1,197
TBD
2016
2017
Arizona Car Week
Arizona Car Week
Arizona Car Week
Arizona Car Week
Site Visits to Schools; "Young People & Old Cars" Panels
Curriculum Sampler; Instructor Support Team; Curriculum Development for High Schools (free American education)
Opportunities, Other Scholarships and Resources on RPM website - job board, other scholarships, housing tips
RPM Career Center; RPM Education Center: Career Services Depts+ Guidance Counselors at schools; SkillsUSA; SEMA
Hagerty Policyholder Donations
NOTES SIGNIFICANT PROGRAMS Leveraging Car Events - Hosting, Promoting
Educational Impact
2015 Donors $5/below = 3081; 2016 Donors $5/below = 1778 = 1303 difference; 4222 - 2806 = 1416; 14161303 = 113
2015
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Job Opportunities
Building Community Fundraising Programs GRANTS AWARDED
Shop Hop Chicago (Internships)
None
Arizona Summit Meeting; EVIT Advisory Committee
HEPpy Hours
Breakfast With the Board
Up Close With RPM, Breakfast With the Board
2015
2016
2017
Total Applications Received Grants Awarded Total Grants Rejected Total Grants Denied
35 18 2 15
56 27 24 5
82 28 44 9
90 30 60 5
# States Receiving Awards
12
24
32
35
3 Midwest + 3 Northeast + 1 Southeast + 2 West Coast
11 Midwest + 8 Northeast + 3 West Coast + 2 Southeast
32 = 7 Midwest + 7 Northeast + 7 West Coast + 7 Southeast + 4 Southwest
35 = 8 Midwest + 7 Northeast + 7 West Coast + 7 Southeast + 6 Southwest
$200,000 $899,325 $899,325 $188,000
$250,000 $1,282,830 $547,940 $229,393
$250,000 $1,239,150 $499,692 $218,631
$250,000 $1,500,000 $500,000 $250,000
10 Scholarship Grants + 2 Programs + 3 Internships + 1 Apprenticeship + 2 Equipment
16 Scholarship Grants + 3 Programs + 3 Internships + 1 Apprenticeships + 5 Equipment
15 Scholarship Grants + 2 Programs + 6 Internships + 1 Apprenticeships + 4 Equipment
12 Scholarship Grants + 3 Programs + 6 Internships + 4 Apprenticeships + 5 Equipment
68% 32%
69% 31%
83% 17%
80% 20%
Students Impacted by Grants
300
583
506
600
Students Impacted by Hosting
110
390
350
350
States Breakout Budgeted Grant Amount Total $$ Requested Total $$ Presented Total $$ Awarded
Grants Breakout % Automotive Awarded % Marine Awarded
Apprenticeship Program
Seven (10+); Shop Hop Chicago, Shop Shop Hop Chicago, Hop Arizona, Off Shop Hop Arizona, Off To The Races with To The Races with RPM, Behind the RPM, Behind the Scenes Scenes Finding the aboveand-beyond the Expanding the RPM call of duty Network: Integrating teachers to get to PARENTS into the the students with communities RPM "heritage in their has built with schools, hearts" students, shops
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Students Impacted by Job Opportunities through RPM Total Students Impacted TRAVEL & OUTREACH Total Distance Traveled
NA 410 2015 57,000
30 973 2016 90,000
35 856 2017 90,000
40 950 2018 GOALS 90000
11 55
18 90
32 75
32 75
Number of People Traveling Number of Site Visits Total Audiences Number of Concours
2 240 1,200 6
9 210 5,700 13
11 150 5,000 15
15 150 5,000 10
Number of Other Car Events WORKFORCE
34 2015
26 2016
18 2017
30 2018 GOALS
Employed Staff Celebrity Ambassadors Volunteer Ambassadors
2 1 10
2 1 10
1 + 2 PT 1 15
3 2 18
Administrative Volunteers Volunteer Logged Hours Board of Directors
2 NA 9
4 1000 10
2 1200 11
4 1500 13
Paid Interns
1
0
0
1
Contract Labor MARKETING EFFORTS Speaking Engagements Television Shows
0
0
2
Number of States Number of Cities
2015 0 0
2016 7 0
1 2017 10 0
Appeals (Direct Mail/Email)
3
4
6
10
Under The Hood Newsletter
5
3
4
6
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Story Reprints
8
10
9
15
Mini Under The Hoods/ Program Books
0
7
4
4
Program Flyers/AUTObiographies Social Media Statistics Website Analytics Google AdWords Advertisements
1 TBD TBD TBD 54
6 TBD TBD TBD 60
8
10
65
TBD TBD TBD 50
Photograph Albums/Photos Videos
0 0
245/6,750 0
295/16,535 2
350/25,000 3
Grant Awardee Progress Reports/KoolProjects
0
0
10
25
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RPM’S FUNDING PHILOSOPHY & PROCESS
Statements for RPM Board Policies & Procedures Resource Book (A version of this document was originally deliberated on October 8, 2015 and January 18, 2016) OVERVIEW The RPM Foundation supports individuals ages 18-25 +/- through their schools, educational programs or restoration shops, funding the pathway to careers in automotive or marine restoration and preservation. Except in extreme and unique circumstances, RPM does not fund students/graduates directly. Funding focus is on job-bound young adults. Recently, it was decided to end multi-year grants, due to the way they are accounted for in GAAP, requiring RPM to record a liability for all future payments on its balance sheet. On average, RPM has granted about $200,000/year+/- since 2005. RPM’s FUNDING PHILOSOPHY The RPM Foundation is a 501(c)3 that funds established, hands-on, career-based programs through scholarships, internships and funding programs (equipment/parts/materials), at schools offering Automotive/Marine Restoration Programs and educational programs that feed the historic vehicle restoration industry. Additionally, RPM provides gap funding (housing, transportation and other living expenses) for students of career-based programs who are working in the field in restoration shops either as an intern (current student) or an apprentice (graduate). The combination of funding scholarships/internships/apprenticeships for students/graduates + educational programs enables RPM to impact the greatest number of people. RPM must balance the number of people it directly serves annually through grants, with a target of at least 450 students/graduates/year. This funding philosophy should be reviewed by RPM’s Board of Directors annually. THE GRANTING PROCESS Through a relatively simple grant application process, schools, other educational programs, organizations, institutions and individuals complete and submit grants three times a year. Any one organization/individual can submit grants as many times as they’d like during a calendar year. The materials requested of organizations are different from materials required from individuals requesting funding. Application information and grant deadlines are available on RPM’s website. Grant support is offered to anyone requesting it.
All grant applications received by the deadline are thoroughly reviewed by the President and Grants Administrator. Only those applications that meet RPM’s funding fit standards will be presented to RPM’s Board of Directors for consideration and deliberation. Grant applicants who receive funding are contacted immediately following Board deliberations, “announcing” the Board’s decisions. Grant awardees receive materials informing them about their grant award, including a Grant Awards Term of Acceptance contract that is executed by the awardee or representative and RPM’s President.
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Grant applicants who do not receive funding are contacted immediately following Board deliberations, with the Board’s decisions. Where there is a “relationship fit”, RPM will continue to cultivate the affiliation. RPM’s Funding Fit Standards (5 = best fit) Program/ Activity Student Base 18-25 year olds
5
4
3
2
1
Post-Secondary Education: Established Degree Program in Automotive/Mari ne Restoration
Post-Secondary Education: Established Certificate Program in Automotive/Marin e Restoration. Secondary Education: Restorationfocused curriculum
Secondary Education: Automotive/Marine Restoration elements in the tech-focused curriculum, taught by an exceptional teacher
Secondary Education & Other Organizations/ Institutions: Automotive/Marine restoration projects
Formal Education Program
Bachelor’s or Associate’s degree
Continuing education but not formal education
Post-Secondary Education: Automotive/Marine Restoration elements in the tech-focused curriculum, taught by an exceptional teacher Secondary Education: Restoration-focused curriculum Continuing education but not formal education
Industry Hands-On Training Programs
Organized, established internship program for students Alumni Program and interested in additional workready programs Engaged in the industry/hobby
Organized, established internship program for students
Considering starting an internship program
Classes in restoration, with a focus on body, mechanical Goes above-andbeyond by opening doors for jobs
Classes in restoration, with a focus on collision & repair Goes above-andbeyond by opening doors for jobs
Alumni Program and interested in additional workready programs Engaged in the industry/hobby
Modest Alumni Program
Modest Alumni Program
No Alumni Program but willing to create one
Engaged in the community
Wants to be engaged in the industry/hobby Engaged in the community
Not involved in the industry/hobby
Engaged in the community
Modestly engaged in the industry/hobby Engaged in the community
Organized Career Services Program
Organized Career Services Program
Relationship to Shops
Reliable feeder to restoration shops
Interested in job outcomes of students but no career program Not a feeder to restoration shops
Recruiting Women & Young People
Actively recruits women and young people, and can be seen in enrollment
Occasional feeder to restoration shops Actively recruits women and young people, and can be seen in enrollment
Very interested in job outcomes and has relationship with industry Not a feeder to restoration shops Meaningfully interested in having woman and young people in the industry
Recruiting is not their job but they add to recruiting efforts by attending car events with restored cars
Alumni Program Industry Involvement Community Involvement Career Program
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Very actively engaged in the community Knowledgeable about jobs but no career program Not a feeder to restoration shops Wants to recruit women and young people and tries, with modest results
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Awarded organizations are expected to promote RPM and the grant to local media and on the organization’s website, provide periodic progress reports with stories told through photos/captions via KoolProjects and complete an evaluation at the end of the term. All organizations and individuals receiving grants are asked to describe how the grants have impacted the programs or the individuals. RPM asks for direct contact with the students winning scholarships and the students benefitting from RPM’s support of programs, so RPM can cultivate those relationships for an evolving Alumni Program. Very specific processes are in place, giving structure to the flow and timing of providing funds. Agreements with the schools/organizations are required as grant funds pass through those institutions. Both organizations and individuals are accountable to RPM for the proper and good use of the RPMprovided funds, including providing progress reports, final evaluations with photos/captions and video clips. FUNDING Q&A (questions we discussed and resolved on June 26, 2015) 1. How many times can an organization apply for funding in a calendar year? As many times as the organization or individual would like – for the same funding or different funding. 2. How many times a year can funds be granted out of the grant cycle? Zero. To maintain our credibility as a credible 501(c)3, we must stick by our processes, policies and procedures, otherwise we would compromise our role in this movement. 3. Is the educational program requesting funds impacting their community and engaging in the hobby? RPM is now referring to the “hobby” as the “industry”. What we do is serious business and impacts the industry meaningfully. Organizations – and individuals – engaged in their communities and this industry get RPM’s attention. RPM is actively involved in communities around the United States and we respect the involvement of organizations seeking RPM’s funding who are engaged in their communities, as well. 4. How do we divide the money we have for grant awards – between automotive and marine restoration, on a percentage basis? What is the “funding split”? 80% Automotive + 20% Marine = RPM’s Annual Funding Split 5. Are motorcycles “funding fits” for RPM? So, automobiles + motorcycles + boats? Yes. As smaller collectible vehicles, they offer an opportunity for educational programs to complete a restoration project in a shorter amount of time, with many of the same hands-on lessons of larger projects. It is important that schools complete restoration projects and not use older vehicles for laboratory lessons alone. 6. In the field, RPM is learning that the extraordinary cost of tools is a barrier for entry into the field of restoration. Shops do not provide tools – the technician does. Some tool manufacturers offer student basic starter sets at discounted rates. Does RPM fund tools? RPM is expanding funding parameters to include the cost of tools for young people entering the industry.
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2018 & BEYOND We have modified the grant cycle schedule for 2018, down to two cycles from three, to help manage staff workloads. As competition for funding increases, there are some tactics we might consider taking to manage our budget against the requests. In 2017, we received 82 grant application from 55 programs, totaling more than $1.2 million requested. We awarded $218,631 to 28 programs. Our “funding fit” table above was our guide when reviewing all applications and determining which to present to the Board. 7. As funding requests increase but our grant dollars remain the same at $250,000, should we: a. Limit institutions to one grant application/year? b. Consider putting a limit on the amount requested? c. Not fund first-time applicants, as we have done throughout 2017? 8. As programs we have funded over the years are growing – based on enrollment numbers – they will need to expand with staff, space and projects. Will RPM Foundation consider funding the expansion of these programs, by supporting salaries, equipment, project vehicles or facilities? 9. As new Board Members bring their own passion, preferences and interpretations to our meetings, the RPM Team recommends that RPM’s Funding Philosophy and Funding Fit Table be discussed annually at the first meeting of the year – the same meeting when the plan and budget for the year are being discussed.
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ACCIDENT WAIVER & RELEASE OF LIABILITY
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PHOTO-VIDEO AUTHORIZATION FORM
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AWARDEE PROGRESS REPORTS LeMAY – AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM 2017 INTERNSHIP PROGRAM, ABI MORGAN
McPherson College Austin Dowler, ’18, received gap funding for an internship at Motorcars, Incorporated, in Plainville, Connecticut. Austin, who previous experience was with American cars, had the chance to test his mechanical abilities on several Jaguars. Stepping outside of his mechanical inclination and comfort zone, he also tackled a convertible top on one of the cars. He prevailed and received rave reviews from the internship host.
Samantha Cotell, ‘18 (who happens to be Austin’s fiancée) spent her summer in Martinez, California, at the Cobra Experience. Sam spent hours doing research and creating an online database of Cobras that includes photos and other historical and technical information. She and another intern also assisted in Cobra Day at the museum, attended the Alameda Concours, and helped with the Cars, Kids and Coffee event. As comfortable under the hood as she is doing research, Sam has accepted a job at the museum upon graduation. Austin has also accepted a position with the Cobra Experience working in their shop. They will be married in June. As long as he can remember, Philip Reinhardt, ’19, has been interested in anything mechanical. At the age of 11 he started volunteering at the Owl’s Head Transportation museum in Owls Head, Maine, where the older volunteers took him under their wing and taught him about the pioneer era automobiles and aircraft. He rebuilt a 1926 Ford Model T Tudor sedan that had been unused since 1954, two 1990s Ford Trucks, a 1972 MGB and countless small tractors. He is part of a small team of students working on a Bugatti Roadside Rally manual, supported by the American Bugatti Club. In January, he will intern with Paul Russell & Company in Essex, Massachusetts. This is his first year as an RPM scholar. Lance Coburn, ’20, received gap funding from RPM to spend the summer working at Midlife Classic in Princeton, Texas. He quickly proved his worth when he dragged out a dusty old English wheel and fixed a problem that, had it been sent out, would have cost the business much more to repair.
Lowell’s BoatShop Apprentice Program Day 1 This year's Apprentice class on day 1. This year we have seen a spike in interest in the program, especially at a younger level than we are used to. I see it as extremely positive. These guys though have little experience so we are starting slow. They have been cleaning up and setting up their workspace, today they will start making tool boxes for themselves while the older kids finish a dory they mostly built last year. By early next week we should be setting up for our big project this year which is building a Haven 12-1/2 which is a beautiful day sailer. The project was begun by a gentleman who passed away. His widow donated the project in its various pieces for us to complete with our apprentices. This is going to be a great project for the kids to jump right into the ins and outs of boatbuilding with!
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McPherson College Austin Dowler, ’18, received gap funding for an internship at Motorcars, Incorporated, in Plainville, Connecticut. Austin, who previous experience was with American cars, had the chance to test his mechanical abilities on several Jaguars. Stepping outside of his mechanical inclination and comfort zone, he also tackled a convertible top on one of the cars. He prevailed and received rave reviews from the internship host. Samantha Cotell, ‘18 (who happens to be Austin’s fiancée) spent her summer in Martinez, California, at the Cobra Experience. Sam spent hours doing research and creating an online database of Cobras that includes photos and other historical and technical information. She and another intern also assisted in Cobra Day at the museum, attended the Alameda Concours, and helped with the Cars, Kids and Coffee event. As comfortable under the hood as she is doing research, Sam has accepted a job at the museum upon graduation. Austin has also accepted a position with the Cobra Experience working in their shop. They will be married in June. As long as he can remember, Philip Reinhardt, ’19, has been interested in anything mechanical. At the age of 11 he started volunteering at the Owl’s Head Transportation museum in Owls Head, Maine, where the older volunteers took him under their wing and taught him about the pioneer era automobiles and aircraft. He rebuilt a 1926 Ford Model T Tudor sedan that had been unused since 1954, two 1990s Ford Trucks, a 1972 MGB and countless small tractors. He is part of a small team of students working on a Bugatti Roadside Rally manual, supported by the American Bugatti Club. In January, he will intern with Paul Russell & Company in Essex, Massachusetts. This is his first year as an RPM scholar. Lance Coburn, ’20, received gap funding from RPM to spend the summer working at Midlife Classic in Princeton, Texas. He quickly proved his worth when he dragged out a dusty old English wheel and fixed a problem that, had it been sent out, would have cost the business much more to repair.
LOWELL’S BOATSHOP APPRENTICE PROGRAM This year's Apprentice class on day 1. This year we have seen a spike in interest in the program, especially at a younger level than we are used to. I see it as extremely positive. These guys though have little experience so we are starting slow. They have been cleaning up and setting up their workspace, today they will start making tool boxes for themselves while the older kids finish a dory they mostly built last year. By early next week we should be setting up for our big project this year which is building a Haven 12-1/2 which is a beautiful day sailer. The project was begun by a gentleman who passed away. His widow donated the project in its various pieces for us to complete with our apprentices. This is going to be a great project for the kids to jump right into the ins and outs of boatbuilding with!
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RUIDOSO HIGH SCHOOL
Ruidoso High School (RHS) shop program (Mechanics and Welding classes) was given the opportunity to completely restore a 1967 Chevy half-ton, two-wheel drive pickup. We were approached by a community member and program supporter, Mr. Grant. Grant donated this vehicle to us as a project under the condition that the pickup, after restoration, remain property of, and use by the RHS shop program. We started disassembly of the pickup. The students and I carefully disassembled and labeled all of the parts, as the truck was completely taken apart. The frame was scrubbed clean and we found some damage (it was bent). We were able to straighten the frame (again, the students doing as much of the work as possible) using a port-apower. The 1967 long bed frame was cut and welded to create a short bed. The frame was then painted black. Previously, the District decommissioned a 1985 Chevy half-ton, two-wheel drive pickup and donated the vehicle to the Shop program. The 1985’s front cross member and suspension with disc brakes were rebuilt with 3” drop spindles, painted, and installed on the 1967 frame. Next, the 1985’s rear drive axle was rebuilt with a locker differential, welded on swing-arm brackets, painted, and then was installed with 3” drop coil springs on the 1967 frame giving 5 lug wheel mounting on both axles. The first gen small block 350 was sent to the machine shop for machining and was rebuilt and painted by the students using Edelbrock donations. We disassembled the Powerglide transmission, cleaned, and rebuilt the transmission using B&M donations. The engine and transmission were then installed in the frame. We will strip the cab and perform body work in preparation for painting. The rest of the body parts will be prepped for painting also. We have also purchased a complete 1989 short step-side Chevy pickup bed to be painted and used with this project. We will also install a new wiring harness as the old harness was not serviceable. We will clean and rebuild as much of the original equipment as possible to keep the cost of the project as minimal as possible. The pictures below show our progress, unfortunately I cannot show student’s faces due to FERPA regulations.
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CHESAPEAKE BAY MARITIME MUSEUM
The Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (CBMM) is grateful for a grant of $10,000 from the RPM Foundation in support of our Shipwright Apprentice Program. This support helps CBMM to continue to offer the leading maritime apprentice program in the country, to ensure the retention of traditional boatbuilding and keep its related skills alive and thriving on the Chesapeake Bay and nationally. The Chesapeake Bay shoreline was once home to scores of small boatyards where skilled shipwrights built and maintained hundreds of wooden vessels. These craftsmen not only supported the commercial growth of the Bay, they also passed along skills—often father to son or through formal apprenticeship arrangements—that had been refined over hundreds of years. Most of these yards have now vanished—and along with them the skills and techniques of their builders—leaving a dearth of proficient wooden boat builders today. The most popular exhibition at CBMM is the working Boatyard, a living testament to the traditions of a working waterfront. Our shipwrights and apprentices are a tangible connection to the Chesapeake Bay’s rich history of boatbuilding, achieved through the preservation and maintenance of our floating fleet and historic small craft collection, and our working marine railway, used for hauling and re-launching our historic vessels. Museum guests can ask questions directly to our shipwrights and apprentices as they work, and our hands-on education programs allow our guests to work directly alongside them. Beyond restoration and public programming, CBMM’s Boatyard passes fading maritime skills on to a new generation of wooden boat builders. Our Shipwright Apprentice program provides one- and two-year apprenticeships to graduates of national and international boatbuilding schools, which afford the apprentice on-the-job training and experience under the tutelage of master shipwrights. The majority of the 43 apprentices who have to date completed CBMM’s Shipwright Apprentice program over its 15-year history have moved on to successful boatbuilding careers and other related professions. Apprentices have gone on to careers at many impressive institutions, including Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, Alexandria Seaport Foundation in Virginia, the San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, and the Center for Wooden Boats in Seattle. CBMM’s current Boatyard Manager, Michael Gorman, is a graduate of the Apprentice Program. Our much-sought after apprenticeships are awarded to deserving applicants using a rigorous interview and selection process, who have already completed basic boatbuilding programs at other organizations both nationally and internationally. Once accepted, our apprentices engage in restoration and maintenance work, as well as training on public interaction. During their apprenticeships, apprentices gain knowledge and are put to the test as they are nurtured by CBMM master shipwrights in established skills and the nuances of transforming wood into a maritime work of art. We are currently undertaking a full review of the curriculum for our Shipwright Apprentice program, to include new programming necessary for today’s graduates, and to further improve our reputation as the leading apprentice program in North America.
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GRANT SUMMARIES 2017 RPM AT-A-GLANCE MAP
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2017 AT-A-GLANCE AWARDS CYCLES 1-2-3
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Independence Seaport PA Museum
$11,908
$5,472
17 Judson High School TX
$15,000
$300
WA
$25,000
$6,000
LeMay – America’s WA Car Museum (ACM)
$6,000
$6,000
16
18
19
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
20
Lowell’s Maritime Foundation
MA
$10,000
$2,500
21
McPherson College
KS
$60,000
$30,000
22 McPherson College
KS
$30,000
$30,000
$15,000
$3,000
$30,000
$20,000
$20,865
$10,500
NM
$6,000
$2,000
27 The Landing School ME
$10,000
$2,000
$15,000
$7,500
Northwest School of Wooden WA Boatbuilding Pennsylvania College 24 PA of Technology Pennsylvania College 25 PA of Technology 23
26
28
Ruidoso Municipal High School
Thornton Fractional High School (TFHS)
IL
2017 Cycle 1 Awarded
$108,550
2017 Cycle 2 Awarded
$78,109
2017 Cycle 3 Awarded
$31,972
Total Year-To-Date
$218,631
Apprenticeship Funding: Stipends for 2 apprentices. Scholarship Funding: Field trips to automotive restoration companies.
5
Marine
3
2
4
Auto
1
80
Scholarship Funding: 3 scholarships.
4
Auto
3
3
Gap-Funding: 1 paid intern to work at ACM for 10 weeks during the summer of 2017, as a Collection Assistant.
5
Auto
1
1
4
Marine
2
1
5
Auto
1
11
5
Auto
2
18
5
Marine
3
2
5
Auto
1
4
5
Auto
2
8
4
Auto
2
120
5
Marine
1
1
5
Auto
1
49
Apprenticeship Funding: 1 Senior Apprentice in the Hiram Lowell Apprenticeship program. Scholarship & Gap-Funding: $5,000 Scholarships for 4 students and $1,000 $1,500 gap-funding scholarships for 7 students for summer internships Scholarship & Gap-Funding: $10,000 Scholarships for 2 students and $20,000 gap-funding 16 students for summer internships Scholarship and Apprentice Funding: $1,500 in scholarship funding and $1,500 toward the Prothero Internship. Scholarship Funding: Four $5,000 scholarships. Internship Gap-Funding: 8 first-year students in the summer of 2017. Project Funding: Complete the restoration of a 1967 Chevy ½ Ton 2WD pickup. Scholarship Funding: $2,000 scholarship Project Funding: Parts and materials for restoration of a 1960 Chevy El Camino and a 1941 Chevy Coupe.
505
Total Amount Requested by 38 Applicants $499,692
2017 GRANT STATISTICS -TODATE Total Applications Received
82
Total Programs Impacted
55
2017 Awards-To-Date by Category
Total
Number of Students Impacted
Total Number of States
15
Total Awarded for Scholarships
$92,500
34
Total Staff-Rejected Applicants
44
Total Awarded for Internships/Apprenticeships
$69,972
42
Total Grants Presented to the Board
38
Total Grants Board-Denied
9
Total Awarded for Equipment
$46,359
180
Total Grants Board-Awarded
29
Total Awarded for Field Trips
$300
80
Total Awarded for Project Funding
$9,000
169 505 505
2005-2017 GRANT STATISTICS
2005-2017 STATES STATISTICS Actual Number of States-To-Date = 32 West Coast: 7
Total Grant Applications Requested
543
Total Grants Awarded
274
Total States Represented
33
Total Number of Students Impacted
25,506
Total $$ Amount Awarded
$3,042,098
Northeast: 7
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Southwest: 4
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AT-A-GLANCE JANUARY 2018 GRANT APPLICATIONS Cycle 1 Grant Applications Presented to the Board
*Alfred State College (pgs. 79, 120-133)
Auto
Past Status
Statistics 2005-Present
Returning 1 Awarded/ from 2014 NY 2 Applied and 2017
*Engine and Frame (ENF) Motor0 Awarded/ New Community Garage VA 0 Applied cycle (pgs. 80, 134-140) *East Syracuse Minoa 0 Awarded/ 3. Central High School Auto New NY 0 Applied (pgs. 81, 141-152) Returning Freedom High School 3 Awarded/ 4. Auto from 2016- WI 3 Applied (pgs. 82, 153-163) 2017 2.
● Total amount requested ● Funds available in 2018 ● Total suggested about to fund ● Amount approved to fund
$480,869 $250,000 $163,230 $TBD
Funding Fit
1.
Auto/ Marine
State
Individual / Institution Name
Funding Details
Suggested Amount
Restricted Funds Available
● 41 grants were submitted ● None at this time ● 12 Applicants sought grant assistance* ● 23 Past Applicants, 18 New Applicants ● 21 Rejected Applicants ● 28 Automotive, 12 Marine, 1 Motorcycle
Amount Request ed
Application Statistics
Purpose of Grant
$20,000
$8,000
4
Funding: $8,000 for four $2,000 scholarships.
$5,000
$2,500
5
Funding: $2,500 for an apprentice.
$10,000
$2,500
5
Funding: $2,500 for a set of hand tools for the automotive program
$8,000
$8,000
5
Funding: $8,000 for a new metal shear.
$5,000
$5,000
5
Funding: $5,000 for two $2,500 scholarships
Returning
Great Lakes Boat Building from 200712 Awarded/ 5. School Marine 2012, 2014- MI 13 Applied 2017 (pgs. 83, 164-172) Hayfield Secondary School Autotech (pgs. 84, 173-176) Indianapolis Motor 7. Speedway Foundation, Inc. (pgs. 85, 177-188)
Auto
New
VA
0 Awarded/ 0 Applied
$2,900
$1,450
Funding: $1,450 to purchase three 5 trainers to be used in the automotive program.
Auto
New
IN
0 Awarded/ 0 Applied
$10,000
$7,000
5
Funding: $7,000 for a summer 2018 intern funding.
*Lake Champlain Maritime Returning 0 Awarded/ 8. Museum at Basin Harbor Marine from 2017 VT 1 Applied (pgs. 86, 189-205)
$15,000
$5,000
4
Funding: $5,000 in boat building supplies.
6.
9.
LeMay – America’s Car Museum (pgs. 87, 206-215)
10.
Madison Automotive Repair Apprentices (MAAP) (pgs. 88, 216-227)
11.
12.
Returning from 2004, 2006-2008, 2010-2014, 2016-2017
WA
11 Awarded/ 14 Applied
$6,000
$6,000
5
Funding: $6,000 for a summer 2018 intern.
VA
0 Awarded/ 0 Applied
$6,750
$3,500
5
Funding: $6,750 toward student intern compensation.
*Maritime Museum of San Returning 0 Awarded/ Diego Marine CA from 2017 1 Applied (pgs. 89, 228-236)
$7,000
$7,000
5
Funding: $7,000 toward intern compensation.
60,000
$45,000 5
*McPherson College (pgs. 90, 237-243)
Auto
Auto
Auto
New
Returning from 10 Awarded/ KS 21 Applied 2005-2006, 2008-2009,
Funding: $45,000, six $5,000 scholarships and $15,000 in gapfunding.
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State Statistics 2005-Present
Funding Fit
Past Status
Suggested Amount
*Owensboro Community and Technical College 13. Foundation, Inc. (pgs. 91, 244-254)
Auto/ Marine
Amount Requested
Individual / Institution Name
State
2011-2012, 2014-2017
Purpose of Grant
$10,000
$4,000
4
Funding: Eight $500 scholarships for students enrolling in Fall 2018.
Auto
Returning 0 Awarded/ from KY 1 Applied 2017
*Pennsylvania College of 14. Technology (pgs. 92, 256-274)
Auto
Returning 9 Awarded/ from 2012, PA 10 Applied 2015, 2017
$30,000
15.
River Valley High School (pgs. 93, 275-281)
Auto
Returning 0 Awarded/ WI from 2017 1 Applied
$3,500
Funding: 4 $5,000 scholarships for 2nd-year restoration students and 2 $30,000 5 $5,000 scholarships for new restoration students. Funding: $3,500 toward the purchase $3,500 5 of a project car.
16.
*Rocking the Boat (pgs. 94, 282-290)
Returning 1 Awarded/ Marine from 2012, NY 3Applied 2014, 2016
$15,000
$7,500
5
*Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical 17. College (pgs. 95, 291-305) *Sweet Grass Technical 18. Institute (pgs. 96, 306-317) Tahoma High School 19. (pgs. 97, 318-325) 20.
*Wexford-Missaukee High School (pgs. 98, 326-332)
Funding: $7,500 apprenticeship funding.
Auto
Returning from 2017
KY
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$20,000
$5,000
4 Funding: $5,000 in project funding.
Auto
New
MT
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$9,330
$4,780
5
Funding: $4,780 for welder and equipment and two work benches.
Auto
Returning 0 Awarded/ WA from 2016 1 Applied
$10,000
$2,500
5
Funding: $2,500 for the engine portion of their restoration project.
Auto
Returning MI from 2015
$10,000
$5,000
5
Funding: $5,000 toward their restoration project.
TOTAL AMOUNT REQUESTED
1 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$263,480 $163,230
Year-To-Date Statistics Targeted percentage split = Auto 80% + Marine 20% Total Grants Awarded 2018 (YTD) $ Cycle 1 Total Automotive Grants Awarded $ % Cycle 1 Total Marine Grants Awarded $ % $ $
% %
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Past Status
21.
Alexandria Seaport Foundation (pg. 99)
Marine
Returning from 2017
22.
Bowling Green Area Chamber Foundation
Auto
Returning from 2017
Statistics 2005-Present
Funding Fit
Auto/ Marine
Amount Requested
Individual / Institution Name
State
Grant Applications Rejected by RPM Staff
VA
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
2
KY
0 Awarded/ 3 Applied
Reason for Postponing or Rejecting Grant
Funding: Apprenticeship funding. Funding: Program funding. $8,892
3
(pg. 100) Funding: Program funding.
23.
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kingsport
Auto
New
TN
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
2
(pg. 101)
24.
Cape Cod Maritime Museum (pg. 102)
Marine
Returning from 2014
MA
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$20,000
3
25.
Center for Wooden Boats (pg. 103)
Marine
Returning from 2008
WA
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
2
Auto
New
AZ
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$5,000
3
26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36.
37.
Funding: Internship funding.
Central Arizona College (pg. 104) Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center (pg. 105) Discovery World Science + Technology Center (pg. 106) Drive Our Future (pg. 107) Fanshawe College Foundation (pg. 108)
Auto
New
VA
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
3
Marine
Returning from 20102014, 2017
WI
2 Awarded/ 6 Applied
$10,000
2
Auto
New
IL
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
4
Auto
New
ON, CA N
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
3
Gig Harbor Boatshop (pg. 109)
Marine
Returning from 20152017
WA
3 Awarded/ 5 Applied
$8,020
5
Auto
New
MT
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$5,000
3
Auto
New
IN
Marine
New
FL
Auto
Returning from 2013
MO
Marine
New
CO
Helena High School Automotive (pg. 110) Ivy Tech Foundation (pg. 111) Mariner High School (pg. 112) MINDDRIVE, INC. (pg. 113) Rocky Mountain Wooden Boat School (pg. 114)
Saratoga Automobile Museum (pg. 115)
Funding: Program funding.
Auto
Returning from 2052006, 2008, 2010, 2014, 2016
Funding: Project funding. Funding: Project funding to turn an old school bus into a food bus.
Funding: Internship funding. Funding Project funding.
Funding: Restoration project funding.
Funding: Internship funding. Funding: Equipment funding.
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied 0 Awarded/ 1 Applied 0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
2
$10,476.7 7
2
$10,000
1
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
4
Funding: Scholarship funding. Funding: Equipment funding.
Funding: Project funding. Funding: Project funding. Funding: Program funding.
NY
5 Awarded/ 7 Applied
$10,000
3
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38.
Soponi Education and Economic Development Corporation
Funding: Program funding. Auto
New
NC
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
2
Auto
New
IL
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$10,000
3
Auto
Returning from 2017
WA
0 Awarded/ 3 Applied
$25,000
4
Marine
New
MD
0 Awarded/ 1 Applied
$5,000
3
(pg. 116)
39. 40. 41.
South Elgin High School (pg. 117) Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum (WAAAM) (pg. 118) YMCA of the Chesapeake (pg. 119)
Funding: Project and equipment funding. Funding: Program funding.
TOTAL AMOUNT REJECTED:
Funding: Project funding.
$217,389
* Sought Grant Assistance from RPM Staff + Grant Awardee and strong relationship with RPM
AWDS
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2018 GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINES & ANNOUNCEMENT DATES
2018 GRANT APPLICATION DEADLINES & ANNOUNCEMENT DATES Digital Deadline**
Announcement Date
December 8, 2017
January 26, 2018
April 20, 2018
June 14, 2018
**In addition to a digital copy, applicants are asked to submit a hardcopy application, for document-quality purposes
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GRANT APPLICATION
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CYCLE 1 2018 GRANT SUMMARIES PRESENTED GRANT SUMMARIES
1. ALFRED STATE COLLEGE – Alfred, NY (Automotive, pgs. 120-133) About Them: Alfred State College is one of the eight Colleges of Technology within the State University of New York (SUNY) system. They offer baccalaureate degrees in 19 areas, associate degrees in 50 areas and a number of certificate programs. The college was founded in 1908. In 1948, the school became Alfred State College and it is a four-year college today. The school has an on-campus chapter of the Antique Automobile Club of America (AACA) and has participated successfully in the Great Race for seven years. They will have two teams competing it the X-Cup in the 2018 Great Race. Amount Requesting: $20,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship Funding. Request Summary: The grant would support eight $2,500 scholarships for students in their Autobody Repair and Automotive Service Technician Programs, restricted for students involved with the school’s vintage car club and on one of the Great Race Teams. Goals: To assist students who are in one of the automotive programs at Alfred State College, have an interest in automotive restoration and a financial need. Special Notes: The students must be a member of the on-campus chapter of the AACA, be part of the school’s vintage car club and one of the Great Race teams. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2014, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $5,000 Purpose: Scholarship funding.
Funding Fit: 4 Number of students impacted: 4 Suggested Amount: $8,000 for four $2,000 scholarships.
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2. ENF COMMUNITY GARAGE INC. – Richmond, VA (Motorcycle, pgs. 134-140) About Them: ENF Community Motorcycle Garage was started by Engine and Frame (ENF), a motorcycle restoration shop specializing in American V-Twin restorations. ENF is a non-profit community motorcycle garage open to all makes and models. By having access to their facility, ENF hopes to give riders an opportunity to take full ownership of their motorcycles. They provide tools, space and on-hand knowledgeable staff to assist in troubleshooting, explaining mechanics and giving in-depth workshops. Their mission is to encourage learning about motorcycle mechanics and restoration and in a larger sense, to encourage self-improvement and community-building through taking on and sharing the challenges of working on a motorcycle. Amount Requesting: $5,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Apprenticeship funding. Request Summary: To fund a year-long, part-time apprenticeship for a high school or college age student interested in a career in motorcycle restoration. Goals: To encourage learning about motorcycle mechanics and restoration and the career possibilities Special Notes: N/A Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 1 Suggested Amount: $2,500
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3. EAST SYRACUSE MINOA CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SPARTAN GARAGE – East Syracuse, NY (Automotive, pgs. 141-152) About Them: East Syracuse Minoa Central High School’s Spartan Garage began 12 years ago in their Automotive Technology program. Each year students enrolled in either the Automotive Technology Program or who participate in the Automotive Technology Club have restored an antique/classic vehicle. At the completion of the build each year, raffle tickets are sold throughout all 50 states and recently to four other countries. The proceeds go to support the automotive technology program which is now 100% self-sustaining. The overall budget of the program is 25% of what it was 20 years ago, however because of the success of their program, they are still able to provide students with a rich educational experience. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: To fund the purchase of a set of shared hand-tools to be used in the shop, as well as the purchase of a new trailer to transport their car to shows throughout the year. Goals: To encourage students to learn about careers in the automotive and automotive restoration industry by providing them with hands-on learning. Special Notes: This school has one the most exceptional programs and instructors that we have had the privilege to discover. We met teacher Ryan Beckley through a Hemmings story. He, his students and four parents participated in Off to the Races with RPM – Watkins Glen. They are currently using one set of hand tools in their shop, meaning students have to wait to use tools. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 120 Suggested Amount: $2,500 for a set of hand tools for the program.
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4. FREEDOM HIGH SCHOOL – Freedom, WI (Automotive, pgs. 153-163) About Them: Freedom High School (FHS) started their automotive program in 1972, the same time Bob Abitz began teaching collision repair. He had a strong mechanical automotive and collision repair background and instantly drew students into his program. In 1978, students in the program started competing in several contests and competitions in both mechanical automotive and collision repair categories. Since then, they have won several awards. His son, Jay, a graduate of FHS, took over the program 2007. The program blends the old and the new. They have continued to innovate and teach students the basics of automotive restoration and technology. Amount Requesting: $8,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: To fund the purchase of a new hydraulic 52” shear. Goals: To inform students about careers in the automotive technology and restoration fields as they work on restoration projects, including a 1985 Toyota 4Runner and 1981 and 1983 Camaros. Special Notes: This program continues to be successful with old, outdated equipment. They consistently ask for only what is needed, and not more. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2016, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $14,609 Purpose: Cross-draft paint booth, new welders
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 86 Suggested Amount: $8,000 for a new hydraulic metal shear. Suggested Amount: $5,000
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5. GREAT LAKES BOAT BUILDING SCHOOL – Cedarville, MI (Marine, pgs. 164-172) About Them: The Great Lakes Boatbuilding School opened in 2007. They are the Mid-west’s premier and only school in the instruction of wooden boat building. They provide a diverse student base with full-time vocational courses in the art and craft of traditional and contemporary wooden boat building. Their emphasis is on the traditional hands-on skills used in the building and restoration of wooden boats. They have an exceptional record of student placement post-graduation. Amount Requesting: $5,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the student scholarship fund, which awards scholarships in varying amounts depending on student need. Goals: To provide students with the opportunity to fulfill their dream to learn how to build, preserve and restore wooden boats. Special Notes: The school has a large impact on their local community, attracting students from all over the world. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2007-2012, 2014-2017 Total Grants Awarded: $61,000 Purpose: Funding internships in the Maritime Mentorship Program, as well as scholarships.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 2 Suggested Amount: $5,000 for two $2,500 scholarships.
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6. HAYFIELD SECONDARY SCHOOL AUTOTECH – Alexandria, VA (Automotive, pgs. 173-176) About Them: The auto technology program at Hayfield Secondary School is funded by the Career and Technical Education budget. The Automotive Technology course, which is an elective, is one of the most popular at the school with 166 students currently enrolled in the 2017-18 school year. The instructors hold two fundraisers a year that serve a dual purpose of collecting “toys for tots” and soliciting car donations for project cars. One of their more notable projects was the rebuilding of a 1937 Jaguar SS100. Students have worked on the body, as well as beginning the rebuilding of the engine. The in-progress car has been featured in community parades and fundraisers. Amount Requesting: $2,900 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the purchase of two starter system trainers, two applied electrical trainers, and two charging system trainers. Goals: To provide students with automotive restoration technology skills. Special Notes: The school has shown the ability to do a lot with a small budget. Their instructor, who is a woman, has done a very good job of selecting teaching tools that will benefit her classes and be used for years to come. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 166 Suggested Amount: $1,450 to purchase 1 of each of the trainers.
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7. INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION, INC. – Indianapolis, IN (Automotive, pgs. 177-188) About Them: The mission of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation is to celebrate more than a century of the innovation, thrill and adventure of motor racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. They own more than 350 vehicles, many of which are fully functional and are used several times a year for exhibitions at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as well as participation in Concours. Their collection includes 159 race cars, 106 passenger cars, 72 pace cars and 13 motorcycles. They have a number of important vehicles that will require restoration in order to be functional and suitable for display. They have three people on staff who handle the maintenance and restoration services for their large collection. They have seen first-hand the generational gaps that exist for persons interested in automotive restoration as a career and are hoping to help bridge that gap by hiring an intern for the summer of 2018, and others over the years moving forward. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the hiring of a summer 2018 intern. Goals: To provide hands-on work experience for a student studying automotive restoration who also has an interest in motorsports. Special Notes: This would be a tremendous opportunity for a motorsport enthusiast restoration student. They have modeled their internship on the collection’s intern program at LeMay – America’s Car Museum. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 1 Suggested Amount: $7,000 toward summer intern compensation in 2018.
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8. LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR, INC. – Vergennes, VT (Marine, pgs. 189-205) About Them: The Lake Champlain Maritime Museum (LCMM) was founded in 1985. Its mission is to discover, preserve and share the maritime heritage of the Lake Champlain region, to inform the present and shape the future. They use the natural and cultural history of Lake Champlain to involve youth in personalized and project-based learning. They specialize in offering hands-on educational programs in the areas of freshwater science, archaeology, metal work and boatbuilding. The Champlain Longboats Program has been in continuous operation since 1999 and is the central focus of their Diversified Occupation Program’s vocational curriculum. The focal point of the program is the construction of a 32’ Cornish pilot gig at LCMM’s Boat Shop. The program runs from January to May each year and 8-12 students between the ages of 14-21 spend their school day (five days/week for five months) at LCMM’s Boat Shop building a 32’ pilot gig from a tree-boat. For that period of time, their classroom is the Boat Shop! Amount Requesting: $15,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the purchase of boat building materials and supplies for their 2018 boat building season. The boat they build is then used in their rowing program. Goals: To teach high school students from the Hannaford Career Center’s Diversified Occupations Program traditional boat building and wood working skills to help them secure a job in boatbuilding in the future. Special Notes: This program relies on student participation and cooperation with the Hannaford Career Center’s Diversified Occupations Program in Middlebury, VT. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Program funding.
Funding Fit: 4 Number of Students Impacted: 8-12 student boat builders, 800 youth rowers and 250 adult rowers annually. Suggested Amount: $5,000 in boat building supplies.
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9. LeMAY – AMERICA’S CAR MUSEUM – Tacoma, WA (Automotive, pgs. 206-215) About Them: LeMay – America’s Car Museum (ACM) is the largest automotive museum in North America with a strong educational mission and a history of offering paid internships to automotive restoration students. The Museum is 165,000 sq. ft. and has over 300 cars, trucks and motorcycles on display. ACM has a long-standing tradition of finding the perfect candidate to fill a paid internship position at ACM every summer. The intern is exposed to the best practices management of the museum’s over 300 vehicles on display and conservation/preservation techniques for long-term storage/display. They experience service management of the running fleet including basic service and vehicle mechanical restoration, along with the exercising of the fleet and safety checks. They are also exposed to vehicle records management, research and authentication best practices, communication and project time management. Amount Requesting: $6,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund one summer intern in the Collections Department. Goals: To provide internship opportunities for hands-on learning along with real world work experience to students enrolled in post-secondary education in automotive restoration, preservation and collections management programs. Special Notes: This program has been extremely successful and the interns have gone on to some very good jobs with significant collectors. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2004, 2006-2008, 2010-2014, 2016, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $79,660 Purpose: Internship funding, symposium funding. The grant awarded in 2016 was awarded in conjunction with McPherson College for Collections’ Intern
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 1 Suggested Amount: $6,000
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10. MADISON AUTOMOTIVE APPRENTICES (MAAP) – Harrisonburg, VA (Automotive, pgs. 216-227) About Them: MAAP is a non-profit affiliated with James Madison University that exists to share the love of the automobile with the next generation through education and unique experiences. The mission of MAAP is to create partner opportunities between auto manufacturers, higher education institutions, vintage auto clubs and enthusiasts, and other nonprofit organizations to promote learning among students with an aptitude in engineering, nonprofit management, economic development, grant writing, automotive history, communications, social marketing, and event and project management. Their board is dedicated to providing internships to allow automotive restoration students opportunities and experiences that will further their careers. Amount Requesting: $6,750 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund one 450-hour internship during the 2017-18 academic year. Goals: To provide internship opportunities with MAAP for degree-seeking engineering students from James Madison University with a demonstrated financial need and a passion for restoration. Special Notes: This program, while being fairly new, is successful and has the leadership of a very well-known Porsche historian and enthusiast, Cole Scrogham. Mr. Scrogham is deeply engaged in the restoration and preservation industry Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 1 Suggested Amount: $6,750 toward student intern compensation.
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11. MARITIME MUSEUM OF SAN DIEGO – San Diego, CA (Marine, pgs. 228-236) About Them: The Maritime Museum of San Diego features a world-class collection of historic vessels including sailing ships, steam-powered boats and submarines. The mission of the museum is to serve as the “community memory” of their seafaring experience by collecting, preserving and presenting their rich maritime heritage and historic connections with the Pacific world. The museum began the restoration of four major vessels in 2017 and will continue through 2020. The scheduled projects are the superstructure restoration and waterproofing of the steam ferryboat Berkeley, built in 1898; the stabilizing of the iron hull of Star of India, built in 1863; the partial deck replacement/steel beam repair on Medea, a steam yacht built in 1904; and, the complete rebuild of the Butcher Boy, built in 1902. Amount Requesting: $7,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the funding of one nine-month, part-time, paid internship to learn hands-on by participating in their four major restoration projects. Goals: To provide an internship – with a stipend that is equivalent to the city’s minimum wage – that will enable one youth to afford training in maritime restoration work for nine months. Special Notes: They state that they have had a hard time retaining young people to work on their projects because of the high cost of living in San Diego. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Internship funding.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 1 Suggested Amount: $7,000
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12. McPHERSON COLLEGE – McPherson, KS (Automotive, pgs. 237-243) About Them: McPherson College is the only college in the United States where you can earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Automotive Restoration Technology. The mission of their program is to be the center of excellence for students serious about careers in the automotive restoration industry. RPM has helped over 30 McPherson students in the past two years by awarding scholarships and gap-funding. Amount Requesting: $60,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship and gap-funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund eight $5,000 scholarships and $20,000 toward internship gap-funding based on students need. Goals: To allow students to take advantage of the learning experience available to them by providing them with scholarships and gap funding. Special Notes: The recipient stories are included in the full grant and descriptions of the qualifications a student applicant must meet to receive scholarships are included in the full grant application. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014 – 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $690,543 Purpose: Scholarships, capital enhancement program for restoration laboratories, gap-funding for internships.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students impacted: 8+ Suggested Amount: $45,000, six $5,000 scholarships and $15,000 in gap-funding. Funding Fit: 4 Suggested Amount: $3,000
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13. OWENSBORO COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION, INC. – Owensboro, KY (Automotive, pgs. 244-254) About Them: Owensboro Community and Technical College serves a community that supports the transportation and restoration fields. They have partnerships with various community organizations including the Daviess County Chapter of the Antique Automobile Association, the Sunset Cruisers, and the Owensboro Corvette Club. They are dedicated to providing opportunities to increase interest in transportation technologies in Western Kentucky. They will be hosting a Summer Academy in 2018 for 20 high school students focused on the restoration of a 1965 AC Cobra replica. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program and scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the 2018 Summer Academy for 20 high school students and also eight $500 scholarships for students enrolling in the Fall 2018 program. Goals: To inspire students to enter the automotive and diesel technology fields and provide them with a passion for restoration. Special Notes: The school was named the 2014 Technical School of the Year by Tomorrow’s Tech magazine and WIX Filters. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Program and scholarship funding.
Funding Fit: 4 Number of Students Impacted: 8 Suggested Amount: $4,000 (8 $500 scholarships for students enrolling in the Fall 2018 program)
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14. PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY (PCT) – Williamsport, PA (Automotive, pgs. 256-274) About Them: Pennsylvania College of Technology offers one of the only college-level vintage vehicle restoration degree programs on the East Coast. Their 2-year Associates Degree is often combined with a Business Degree. Students learn specialized restoration skills in the repair and maintenance of these rare, historic vehicles. They have a rich curriculum in research, structural mechanical, electrical, and refinishing skills. Students are taught fine attention to detail, quality craftsmanship and professionalism that the automotive restoration industry demands. Amount Requesting: $30,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the funding of 4 $5,000 scholarships for secondyear restoration students and 2 $5,000 scholarships for new restoration students. Goals: To offer a college-level vintage vehicle restoration and preservation program of study. Special Notes: This program is continuing to grow and shows great promise at being the next “McPherson College.” Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2012, 2015, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $130,000 Purpose: Program funding, scholarship funding, gap-funding
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 6 Suggested Amount: $30,000
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15. RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL – Spring Green, WI (Automotive, pgs. 275-281) About Them: Built in 1963 after a merger of the Lone Rock, Arena and Spring Green high schools, River Valley High School’s automotive program began in 1971. In 1998, the Automotive, Math and Science Departments received new classrooms and labs as a part of the school’s remodeling. The automotive lab was expanded from a single bay to a double bay with a lift. The program took a hiatus after the retirement of the long-time auto tech teacher in 2011. In 2016, Robby Jacobson was hired and has worked hard to re-establish the program and pique the interest of his students, who range in age from 13-18. He states, “I truly believe this is the age where the student is being influenced by hands-on activities. I have the opportunity to use the auto tech classes here at River Valley to influence our students’ career paths.” When Mr. Jacobson took over the auto tech classes at River Valley, they were almost solely focused on mechanical work, but he hopes to add more body work and fabrication to provide the students with a well-rounded view of possible automotive careers. Amount Requesting: $3,500 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the purchase of a car to use as a restoration project. Goals: To use their restoration project as a show piece for the program and pique the interest of future students and the community. Special Notes: The instructor has had several students bringing in family-owned classics in order for their class to put them back on the road. They seek a full restoration project. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Program funding.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 25 Suggested Amount: $3,500
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16. ROCKING THE BOAT – Bronx, NY (Marine, pgs. 282-290) About Them: Participants in Rocking the Boat are high school-aged boys and girls. Most come to the program with no woodworking experience or knowledge of traditional wooden boats. They work their way up to the advance apprentice class by honing technical skills, as well as professional ones. Their boatbuilding apprentices graduate from high school with valuable work experience, transferrable skills and secure post-secondary plans. At this time, three of their alumni are studying boatbuilding and marine systems at the Landing School in Arundel, ME. This has inspired whole classes of their younger classmates in the Bronx, NY to follow in their footsteps. In the spring semester of 2018, six apprentices will begin the project of recreating a skiff built by Arthur “Chummy” Spurling, a well-known boat designer and builder, and the other half of the class will complete the construction of a Herreshoff 12 ½’ sailboat. Amount Requesting: $15,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Apprenticeship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the stipends for six apprentices working on a year-long program. Goals: To teach students boat construction, as well as the concepts and techniques of wooden boat restoration. Special Notes: This program has guidance and curriculum support from multiple boatbuilding programs and museums supported by RPM Foundation. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2012, 2014, 2016 Total Grants Awarded: $2,500 Purpose: Program funding.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 3 Suggested Amount: $7,500 for three student apprentice stipends.
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17. SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY AND TECHNICAL COLLEGE (SKYCTC) – Bowling Green, KY (Automotive, pgs. 291-305) About Them: Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College is located in Bowling Green, home to the General Motors Corvette Assembly Plant. It is part of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. It has been operating for over 75 years and serves the community with six campus locations. Students can earn a degree, diploma or certificate in one of 19 programs offered, including Automotive Technology and Collision Repair. For the past two years, SKYCTC has been involved with the “On-Track” program with the Bowling Green Area Chamber of Commerce. The program pits SKYCTC against the Warren County Area Technology Center students in a competition to build/restore a car to compete at the Holley LS Fest in the Grand Champion category. Both schools are provided funding and guidelines from the Chamber’s Foundation. Because of the students’ success, the program has now received the donation of a 1965 Mustang Fastback. They will use the car as a restoration/modification project to teach the skill sets of building and restoring a classic car. Amount Requesting: $20,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: Parts, materials, and supplies for the restoration/modification of a 1965 Mustang Fastback. Goals: To teach students the skill sets used in building a resto-mod car and sell it at either a Mecum or Barrett-Jackson auction. Special Notes: The “On-Track” program car was sold at a Mecum auction for $50,000. This program is definitely a “one-to-watch” for RPM. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Project funding.
Funding Fit: 4 Number of Students Impacted: 50 Suggested Amount: $5,000
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18. SWEET GRASS TECHNICAL INSTITUTE – Big Timber, MT (Automotive, pgs. 306-317) About Them: The Sweet Grass Technical Institute offers classes throughout the school year to teenagers who are looking for an in-depth, hands-on experience in a professional auto shop setting. The classes are every Monday and Tuesday from 6pm-9pm. They have completed several restoration projects including a vintage Jeep and a 1965 Cobra Daytona. The program has recently moved to a new, dedicated location that is being outfitted with equipment and tools. Amount Requesting: $9,330 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: The grant would provide parts, materials and supplies for the full restoration of a reproduction 1965 Cobra Daytona. Goals: To teach students tangible skills, from turning a wrench and learning to work well with others to planning and executing a long-term plan. Special Notes: Members of the staff have already donated $8,000 of their own money toward the Cobra project. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 5 Number of students Impacted: 25 Suggested Amount: $4,780 for welder and equipment and two work benches.
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19. TAHOMA HIGH SCHOOL – Maple Valley, WA (Automotive, pgs. 318-325) About Them: The brand-new Tahoma High School opened in September 2017. It features a state-of-the-art automotive training shop and classroom. The program is a NATEF accredited program at the Maintenance and Light Repair level. Students spend 85% of their class time working in the shop and 15% in classroom based learning and research. The automotive program is celebrating the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet trucks with the restoration of a 1953 Chevrolet 3100 pick-up that was donated to the program by the family of a student. This is a student-led project and will allow for significance peer to peer and adult to youth mentoring opportunities. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund the restoration of a 1953 Chevrolet 3100 pick-up truck. Goals: To restore an American classic, preserve the skilled trades in their education program and mentor the youth with a clear pathway to meaningful careers. Special Notes: This restoration program is outside the normal operating budget of the automotive class. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2016 Total Grants Awarded: $0 Purpose: Build a 1923 Nostalgia T-Bucket kit car.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 180 Suggested Amount: $2,500 for the engine portion of the restoration project.
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20. WEXFORD-MISSAUKEE HIGH SCHOOL – Cadillac, MI (Automotive, pgs. 326-332) About Them: The Wexford-Missaukee Career Technical Center serves 12 local school districts in northern Michigan. Approximately 700 students attend one of fourteen programs in either the morning or afternoon sessions. After the successful completion of their Factory 5 Cobra Project was publicized in their local newspaper, a local enthusiast donated a 1955 Chevy panel truck for the program to restore. Students from multiple programs at the school will be able to participate in the restoration of the truck. All students who participate must maintain a good GPA and good attendance. The process will provide a career-like experience for students who have a passion to be a part of something new which could possibly open new doors for employment. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the restoration of a 1955 Chevy Panel Truck. Goals: To teach the students preservation and restoration techniques and enhance their handson technical skills. Special Notes: The program has already spent approximately 300 hours on this project and is estimating an additional 400 hours being spent on learning and enhancing the technical skills that are needed for the restoration. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2015 Total Grants Awarded: $5,000 Purpose: Project funding.
Funding Fit: 5 Number of Students Impacted: 75 Suggested Amount: $5,000
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21. ALEXANDRIA SEAPORT FOUNDATION – Alexandria, VA (Marine) About Them: The Alexandria Seaport Foundation offers an adult mentoring, career training and wooden boat building program to help young people who have had significant challenges in their lives. They specifically target the 18-22 year-old age group because they are considered adults. They mentor young men and women and provide a safe place for them to learn new skills and training that will open up new career pathways. They take a holistic approach to improving lives by addressing both the “hard” and “soft” skills necessary to secure and maintain employment. Apprentices work Monday-Friday from 8:00am-4:00pm and are paid a starting stipend of $8 per hour. Program time is divided between job skills training, academic instruction, work-shop instruction, on-the-water education and life skills mentoring. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would help support the Alexandria Seaport Foundation’s mission of improving the lives of young people through adult mentoring, career training and the craft of wooden boatbuilding. Goals: To use the craft of wooden boat building to teach young people career skills necessary to secure sustainable employment. Special Notes: This program is an intervention-type program for students who are facing challenges other than lacking job skills and steady employment. Some have been gang involved, court involved or struggle with substance abuse issues. The program is not focused on provided a pathway to careers for those interested in wooden boat building as a career. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: Cycle 3 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Program funding.
Funding Fit: 2 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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22. BOWLING GREEN AREA CHAMBER FOUNDATION – Bowling Green, KY (Automotive) About Them: The Bowling Green Area Chamber Foundation has partnered with the Warren County Area Technology Center (ATC) to provide training opportunities for students in the region. The ATC’s Advanced Motorsports Academy focuses on restoring a vehicle with a highperformance engine, however they do not currently have a collision repair program. The program serves over 80 high school students and was one of 11 career and technical programs to receive an award from Advanced CTE for their automotive technology program. Amount Requesting: $8,892 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the purchase of equipment to expand the collision repair portion of the ATC program. Goals: To provide students in their region with the training and hands-on opportunities to prepare them for a career in the automotive industry. Special Notes: The rapid growth of their region has put a financial strain on the ATC and school district and has restricted additional investments to expand or improve programs. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: Cycle 2 & 3 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $0 Purpose: To fund their “On-Track” program.
Funding Fit: 3 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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23. BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER KINGSPORT – Kingsport, TN (Automotive) About Them: The Boys and Girls Club of Greater Kingsport serves the local youth who fall into the “high-risk youth in distressed areas” as defined in section 509A of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 290-aa8(f)). Statistics show that the majority of their members are economically disadvantaged and often experience chronic failure in school. The Club has created a program, “From Old to New,” that will provide youth from 10-18 years old with skills that they can use for future career opportunities. A total of 40 youth will participate in a 10-week program. The program will run 4 cycles in a year and will provide 2 hours per week of restoration and preservation time. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would support a 10-week long preservation and restoration class taught by local car clubs. Goals: To provide young people in their club with restoration and preservation technical skills. Special Notes: This program, while providing some hands-on training, does not provide a pathway to careers for students. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: n/a Total Grants Awarded: n/a Purpose: n/a
Funding Fit: 2 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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24. CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUM – Hyannis, MA (Marine) About Them: The Cape Cod Maritime Museum is Cape Cod’s first museum dedicated to maritime culture. Their mission is to preserve the rich seafaring traditions of Cape Cod and the Islands by exhibiting artifacts of a bygone era. Their Boat Yard Apprentice School curriculum was created by partnering with Arey’s Pond Boat Yard in nearby South Orleans, MA. Their program is specifically aligned with industry-recognized standards for entry level employment in the boat building and restoration industry. The unique boat shop education space and program will enable at-risk youth and adults on the fringe of the workforce to learn maritime skills through workforce development education at the museum. Amount Requesting: $20,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the Boat Yard Apprentice Program. Goals: To provide at-risk youth and adults on the fringe of the workforce with hands-on skills leading them to entry level employment at local boat yards. Special Notes: While this museum has been open for 14 years, the Boat Yard Apprentice program is new and might be considered for a future grant, depending on its success. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2014 Total Grants Awarded: $0 Purpose: Restoration of a 1961 Bigelow catboat.
Funding Fit: 3 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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25. CENTER FOR WOODEN BOATS – Seattle, WA (Marine)
About Them: The Center for Wooden Boats is a maritime museum made up of locals, tourists, and young people participating in sailing and boatbuilding classes, as well as job skills programs. Their Job Skills Program (JSP) is the cornerstone of their Youth Development programming. The JSP had its first session in 2011 and 82 young people successfully completed the program since then. The mission of the JSP is to connect and train underserved young adults ages 16-22 for skilled maritime careers through hands-on experiential education and on-the-job practice. Participants receive stipends of $15 per hour while they learn hard skills such as woodworking and boatbuilding, as well as soft skills such as communication, team work and other employment skills, like resume writing. Their most recent session had eight participants for six weeks at 18 hours per week. There is a winter session at their Cama Beach site and a summer session at their South Lake Union site. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support stipends for their Job Skills Program. Goals: To increase the number of young people they can serve in their 2018 program and extend the program from 6-8 weeks. Special Notes: This program, is a one to investigate and watch. It is unclear whether or not their program provides a pathway to careers in the marine restoration industry or just the marine industry. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2008 Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 2 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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26. CENTRAL ARIZONA COLLEGE – Coolidge, AZ (Automotive) About Them: Central Arizona College opened in 1969 in Pinal County. It is a community college with five campuses and three centers located throughout the county. They offer multiple automotive technician and collision repair technician courses, as well as diesel repair and a Street Rod class. They completed their first restoration project of a 1983 Chevrolet C10 pickup with the help of their Diesel Technology professor and are now turning that project into a street rod. The truck was a maintenance vehicle on the campus that had been involved in an engine fire. The truck was set to be scrapped when the instructor asked to keep it for his class, which then completed the restoration of it. Amount Requesting: $5,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the transformation of their previous mechanical restoration project into a street rod. Goals: To finish the project 2 semesters early. Special Notes: This program, while teaching hands-on skills, is not focused on vintage car restoration and is more of a modern technology and street rod program. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 3 Number of students affected: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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27. CHARLOTTESVILLE-ALBEMARLE TECHNICAL EDUCATION CENTER (CATEC) – Charlottesville, VA (Automotive) About Them: The Charlottesville-Albemarle Technical Education Center is a regional public high school offering 10 programs and two academies with certifications and educational pathways to careers. The school has several local business partners that support their various programs including the Colonial Auto Center. They have begun a campus project that will use the skills of their various departments to renovate and maintain a retired school bus and convert it to a food bus. It will be the first food bus operated by a high school technical education center in the state of Virginia and one of the few operated by a K-12 technical school in the entire country. They will utilize the food bus to sponsor events to bring their community together and promote the importance of CTE and skilled trades programs. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the conversion of a retired school bus into a food bus. Goals: To teach and enrich a large group of students through experiential learning and on-thejob training. Special Notes: This program, while very interesting, does not provide a pathway to careers in the restoration industry, only skilled trades experience. It is one to watch and we will cultivate a relationship with them. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: N/A Total Grants Awarded: N/A Purpose: N/A
Funding Fit: 3 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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28. DISCOVERY WORLD SCIENCE + TECHNOLOGY CENTER – Milwaukee, WI (Marine) About Them: The Discovery World Science + Technology Center was founded in 1982 by Milwaukee business and educational leaders in the hopes of generating excitement in the minds of children for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) education and careers. Each year, Discovery World hires summer camp interns to assist their staff, as well as students ages 16-21 to work in their Guest Services Department. They have a history of partnering with Employ Milwaukee, formerly MAWIB, to deliver the Career Pathways program. The program is a symposium-style lecture series for young workers to learn about potential job opportunities from professionals in the field. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: To help fund their summer interns and their Career Pathways program. Goals: To teach their summer interns about basic exhibit operations and minor maintenance techniques. They will also oversee children participating in their summer programs Special Notes: This program does not provide training in restoration or a pathway to careers for students interested in a career in the marine restoration industry. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $17,500 Purpose: Grants awarded for partnership of school and museum for students to work with staff to refurbish and upgrade Discovery and Schooner Boat Works program for high school students in conjunction with the Bradley Career Technical School.
Funding Fit: 2 Number of students impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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29. DRIVE OUR FUTURE – Chicago, IL (Automotive) About Them: DRIVE, (Determination, Readiness, Innovation, Vision and Empowerment) Our Future is a program dedicated to promoting a sense of determination and motivation in today’s youth by teaching skills that ensure work readiness, expose youth to innovative technology, and job experience in the automotive and transportation industry. They foster the value of technical education and teach employability skills and workplace etiquette. They believe that the art and skill involved in car restoration and building should be preserved. They state that “many youth can benefit from broadening their educational experiences beyond the traditional classroom to explore their interests and talents.” They have received a donation of a 1983 Mercedes-Benz Turbo that will be used in their summer 2018 restoration program. The program will last eight weeks and students aged 14-22 will participate approximately four hours per day, Monday through Friday. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: To help fund the restoration of a 1983 Mercedes-Benz TD. Goals: To teach their students hands-on automotive skills, as well as the field of restoration during an eight-week summer program in 2018. Special Notes: This program has garnered local support with the donation of the car, as well as support from a large non-profit, After School Matters, before the establishment of DRIVE Our Future as a 501(c)(3). This is a one to watch. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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30. FANSHAWE COLLEGE FOUNDATION – London, ON, Canada (Automotive) About Them: Fanshawe College of Applied Arts and Technology opened in London, Ontario in 1967. They have a student population of over 43,000. The Applied Transportation Technologies department accommodates 1,500 students who are seeking “job-ready credentials” in trades and technologies that support the transportation industry. They are currently undertaking a 50th Anniversary Flagship Project of rebuilding a 1967 Ford Falcon. The Falcon was built at St. Thomas, Ontario’s Ford assembly plant. The vehicle will be used as a marketing and recruitment tool that will travel to high schools, trade shows and community events. Students and apprentices will complete the rebuild work as they move through their course curriculum and apprenticeship levels. The Falcon restoration project is estimated to take 2500 hours. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: To fund the restoration of a 1967 Ford Falcon. Goals: To provide hands-on real-life education to excite their students. Special Notes: This program has received a significant amount of other community support and donations, but it is certainly one to watch. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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31. GIG HARBOR BOATSHOP – Gig Harbor, WA (Marine)
About Them: The Maritime Mentorship Program at the Gig Harbor BoatShop pairs collegeaged interns with master craftsmen in a one-on-one, hands-on environment to complete a boat restoration or boatbuilding project. The program provides young people with exposure to maritime trades and provides a strong foundation for further education and career readiness. Their current project focuses on the complete restoration of a 1941 Chris Craft 101 Deluxe, a classic 16’ wooden runabout. The restoration is anticipated to begin in Fall 2017 or when funding is secured. Amount Requesting: $8,020 Requested Grant Money Used For: Internship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the balance of intern compensation for the project. Goals: To perpetuate working waterfront skills, uses and traditions at the Eddon Boatyard and aboard historic vessels of Puget Sound. The Marine Maritime program is designed to pair skilled boat builders, shipwrights and craftsmen with college-aged interns to teach boatbuilding, boat repair and boat restoration skills in a one-on-one master/apprentice learning environment. Special Notes: RPM funded $3,500 of their internship compensation in Grant Cycle 2, 2017. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2015, 2016, 2017 Total Grants Awarded: $23,500 Purpose: Funding internships in the Maritime Mentorship Program.
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32. HELENA HIGH SCHOOL AUTOMOTIVE – Helena, MT (Automotive) About Them: The auto technology program at Helena High School strives to provide their students with as much hands-on learning as possible. Their teacher states, “They simply learn better if they are performing the work themselves!” Her goal is that when students complete the program they can begin work as an entry-level mechanic, go onto additional training or just have a great working knowledge of vehicles. The program has over 100 students throughout the course of the year. Amount Requesting: $5,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the purchase of a new rotary two-post hoist. Goals: To provide students with the knowledge to begin work as an entry-level mechanic. Special Notes: This program’s curriculum is centered on modern automotive technology and not restoration. It is one to watch and develop a relationship to find the students with “heritage in their hearts.” Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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33. IVY TECH FOUNDATION – Indianapolis, IN (Automotive) About Them: Ivy Tech Community College Indianapolis serves over 20,000 students each semester in Indianapolis and the seven neighboring counties. They offer over 100 Associates Degrees, certificates and special credit programs. Ivy Tech is known for its quality curricula, workforce training, industry partnerships, transferable credits and affordability. The automotive manufacturing, sales and motorsports industries in Central Indiana employ over 50,000 technicians at more than 50 businesses. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, by 2020 the automotive industry and heavy truck repair sector is expected to face a shortage of more than 100,000 personnel. The need for qualified technicians is driven by the continued growth of the automobile industry and the introduction of much more complex technologies and components. Ivy Tech Indianapolis currently offers a wide range of automotive programming, including specialized certificates in multiple fields. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund four $2,500 scholarships for students in the automotive program. Goals: To teach students how to diagnose and repair today’s high-tech vehicles. Special Notes: We have a relationship with this program and will encourage them to apply for a grant in the future to fund student scholarships for those who are interested in pursuing automotive restoration as a career. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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34. MARINER HIGH SCHOOL – Cape Coral, FL (Marine) About Them: Mariner High School has had great success with its Outboard Mariner Service Technology Academy. They have secured a full-time instructor with over 25 years of industry experience to teach and have begun building renovations to accommodate a fully-equipped working shop. Their program provides students with training in the repair and rebuilding of two-stroke and four-stroke engines. The students have the opportunity to become certified in one or more of the following: CAPE Academies – Florida Automobile Dealers Association Certification and or Mariner Electrical Certification and Industry exams or a Yamaha Certified Technician. Amount Requesting: $10,476.77 Requested Grant Money Used For: Equipment and supplies. Request Summary: The grant would fund the purchase of equipment and supplies for their Outboard Marine Service Technology Academy. Goals: To teach students problem-solving skills and to develop a work ethic while learning how to repair and overhaul two-stroke and four-stroke marine engines. Special Notes: This program focuses on modern marine technology and does not provide students with a pathway to careers in the marine restoration field. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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35. MINDDRIVE INC. – Kansas City, MO (Automotive) About Them: MINDDRIVE began in 2010 and now serves students from more than 20 high schools in the Kansas City, Kansas/Missouri area. They have completed 14 automotive projects, including the restoration of a 1965 Chevy Corvair Corsa convertible and installation of an allelectric drivetrain. Some of their current projects include the updating of a 1967 Volkswagen Karmann Ghia to include two high-powered DC motors and an updated extended-life CALB Lithium Ion battery pack. State-of-the-art improvements to the steering, braking and suspension upgrades will also be completed. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund the completion of the restoration, retrofit and conversion of an electric 1967 VW Karmann Ghia. Goals: To offer automotive, STEM and creative programming to underserved youth. Special Notes: This program, while very interesting, does not provide a pathway to careers for students interested in a career in the restoration industry. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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36. ROCKY MOUNTAIN WOODEN BOAT SCHOOL – Grand Lake, CO (Marine) About Them: Initially conceptualized in 2010, the Rocky Mountain Wooden Boat School (RMWBS) was incorporated in the town of Grand Lake in early 2017. The purpose of the school is to promote the continuation and expansion of the craft of wooden boat construction, restoration, maintenance and enjoyment through research, public outreach and education. The school wants to create a sustainable program with Soroco High School of Oak Creek that gives students a real-world introduction that combines the craftsmanship of restoration with the intricacies of business operations. Their program will combine industrial arts and business curricula. Their first project will be to restore a 1949 Century Resorter that has been donated to the RMWBS. Upon completion, the boat will be sold with funds equally split between the school and RMWBS with the intention of providing a sustainable program within the school. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program/project funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the restoration of a 1949 Century Resorter and its original Gray marine engine. Goals: To restore the 1949 Century Resorter and to create a sustainable program with Soroco High School of Oak Creek, CO. Special Notes: This program is very new and one to watch. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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37. SARATOGA AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM – Saratoga Springs, NY (Automotive) About Them: The Saratoga Automobile Museum was established in 1999, and opened to the public in 2002. The Museum states that its mission is “to preserve, interpret and exhibit automobiles and automotive artifacts.” They celebrate the automobile and educate the public, enthusiasts and students on the role the automobile has played in New York State and in the wider world. In addition to technical and design aspects, their educational focus is on the past, present and future social and economic impact of the automobile. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: They are seeking funding to support their multi-phase restoration program called “Rebuilding a Racer.” Goals: To support the participation of youth aged 11-18 in the “Rebuilding a Racer” program that will teach them restoration skills, as well as STEM education. Special Notes: Restoration of a 1956 Offyette Quarter Midget is currently in progress and the program has also received another Quarter Midget vehicle donation. RPM awarded a $5,000 grant in Cycle 3 2016 for this program. Their progress on the restoration work has been slow as they sought additional funding for the work. The restoration began in April 2017. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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38. SOPONI EDUCATION AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION – Lincolnton, NC (Automotive) About Them: Soponi Education and Economic Development Corporation’s mission is to address gaps in education and economic development in both urban and rural counties in North Carolina by bringing together multisector collaboration to address gaps that thwart individual, family and regional education and economic growth. Their project introduces students to the basic skills needed to restore vehicles that were manufactured up to 1975. A 1963 Chevrolet Impala has been donated to the project for restoration. Their task will be to take a “junker” and restore it to its original condition with instructors from the university and volunteer mentors. Their First Steps to Classic Automotive Restoration Project will consist of 10 students enrolled in East Wilkes High School where the project will be located. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: They seek funding to support their First Steps to Classic Automotive Restoration Project. Goals: Their mission is to address gaps in education and economic development in both urban and rural counties in North Carolina. Special Notes: This program is new and does not yet address creating a pathway to careers for students who are interested in pursuing careers in restoration. One to watch. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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39. SOUTH ELGIN HIGH SCHOOL – South Elgin, IL (Automotive) About Them: The automotive program at South Elgin High School has received accreditation in Maintenance and Light Repair from the National Automotive Technicians Education Foundation. The program and its students, led by instructor Steve Schertz, has won several awards. One of the most notable is a 5th place at the Hot Rodders of Tomorrow Engine Challenge national competition. This team is also notable because it is made up completely of young women from Mr. Schertz automotive class. Amount Requesting: $10,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Project funding. Request Summary: To help fund the pro-touring build of a donated 1937 Chevy truck, worked on by the school’s car club. Goals: To teach the students the craft of fabrication and artistry that is required to build performance type show vehicles. Special Notes: This program, while being very deserving, is using modern technology in their build and is not focused on restoration. It is one to watch. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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40. WESTERN ANTIQUE AEROPLANE & AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM (WAAAM) – Hood River, OR (Automotive) About Them: The Western Antique Aeroplane & Automobile Museum has one of the largest collections of still-flying antique aeroplanes and still-driving antique automobiles in the country. Established in 2007, it is now home to more than 325 airplanes, automobiles and motorcycles. They are displayed in over 3.5 acres of indoor hangar space. The collection focuses on the Golden Age of Transportation and Aviation – roughly the 1900s to the 1960s. The Museum was founded by Terry Brandt who has restored and donated over 60 airplanes and several automobiles currently on display in the Museum. In addition to the airplanes, the museum has 130 cars on display, as well as motorcycles and tractors. Amount Requesting: $25,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Scholarship funding. Request Summary: The grant would support the funding of 10 $2,500 scholarships for students in the WAAAM Historic Automobile Restoration Program. The program is slated to be a 500-credit hour program. Goals: To fill the gap created by the shutting down of automotive programs in their area. Special Notes: This application is identical to the one submitted in Cycle 2 2017. The program is still a one-to-watch, but so far has shown little progress in attracting students to the program. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
Years: 2017 Total Grants Awarded: 0 Purpose: Scholarship funding.
Funding Fit: 4 Number of Students Impacted: N/A Suggested Amount: $0
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41. YMCA OF THE CHESAPEAKE – Easton, MD (Marine) About Them: “Take the Helm” is a free, after-school program for high school students at the YMCA of the Chesapeake. It focuses on wooden boat-building, as well as social and leadership skills. Their program uses the building of flat-bottomed skiffs and then transitions them to the water. Students not only build the boats, but use them on the water. Most of the students’ time is spent in restoration and building the boat. The students learn about the structure and history of the boat they are building as they are building it. Each student works on the boat for four hours a week. Amount Requesting: $5,000 Requested Grant Money Used For: Program funding. Request Summary: The grant would fund the Take the Helm program. Goals: To provide a safe place for high schoolers after school and provide students with technical wood-working skills and a potential career in that field. Special Notes: This application is one-to-watch, as the program seems like an after-school program that uses boat-building versus focusing on boatbuilding and restoration/preservation itself. Previous Grants Submitted/Received: i. ii. iii.
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HAYFIELD SECONDARY SCHOOL AUTOTECH
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INDIANAPOLIS MOTOR SPEEDWAY FOUNDATION, INC.
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LAKE CHAMPLAIN MARITIME MUSEUM AT BASIN HARBOR
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RIVER VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL
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ROCKING THE BOAT
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SOUTHCENTRAL KENTUCKY COMMUNITY & TECHNICAL COLLEGE
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SWEET GRASS TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
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TERMS OF ACCEPTANCE
GRANT AWARD TERMS of ACCEPTANCE Grant Awardee/Organization: Project Funded: Award Amount:
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Total Project Funds Needed: Contact: Contact Details (address, telephone, cell, email): Stated Objective/s of Project: ACCEPTANCE DETAILS The Board of Directors of RPM Foundation (RPM) hereby requests and sets these terms of acceptance for this grant. Grant funds must be used as intended and agreed to. They are not transferrable. If anything changes about the intended use of funds (duration of internship/apprenticeship, purpose, person, program, failure to secure full-project funding, etc.), funds must be returned to RPM. These terms are agreed upon to mutually benefit both agreeing parties. Further, RPM and their respective donor partners wish to further the value of their donations through mutually beneficial cross-promotional marketing, communications, positive media presentations and constructive evaluations. The RPM Board of Directors is pleased to award $0 to XXX for the objectives stated above. In acknowledgement of this funding, the Board of Directors requests your agreement to the following expectations: 1. This Grant Award Terms of Acceptance and the W-9 form which accompanied it must be completed/executed by your organization, reviewed with the RPM staff and returned to RPM before funds will be disbursed to your organization. 2. A public announcement about the grant and your project must be made. The announcement may be a local newspaper, your newsletter, your website, or whatever means best serves you, your organization and the public acknowledgement of the grant. a) The public announcement should contain these words: “RPM Foundation (RPM) is an educational grant-making program of America’s Automotive Trust (AAT). RPM is funded by collector vehicle and classic boat enthusiasts to serve youth and young adults on their pathways to careers in automotive/marine restoration & preservation along with the long-term interests of the collector vehicle and classic boat communities. Visit: www.rpm.foundation for more information.” b) RPM is single-branded and the logo must appear in your announcement. Please follow the branding guidelines, which were included in the grant award package your organization received. The RPM staff will forward pdf and jpg files of the RPM logo artwork.
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c) Copies of the announcement(s) and copies of resulting media should be sent to RPM. 3. On your organization’s website please add our logo with link to www.rpm.foundation, following our branding guidelines. 4. When posting on your social platforms, please like/follow/subscribe to RPM’s platforms whenever posting something relevant to the grant and project. Direct links to RPM’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube accounts can be found on the top right corner of RPM’s website. 5. An RPM banner (sized 4’x6’ or 4’x8’) will be given/shipped to you soon after the grant documents are processed. Please hang it in your organization’s main workspace/shop for display and for use as a backdrop for program-related photos. 6. It is expected that periodic reports on the progress of the project will be made during the term of this grant by using the Kool Projects platform. a) You are required to sign-up with www.koolprojects.com so that you can create a project profile and record your project progress. If you are stuck on how to sign-up or to create a project profile click on How-It-Works for instructions. http://koolprojects.com/how-it-works b) Write about your project progress, techniques and materials you have used under the Journal Entry. You have the option to add journal updates on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. The more you update and write about your project the more people will be engaged with your project progress. c) Please include a minimum of 10 digital photos with captions and at least 3 short video clips max 32MB upload or a YouTube/Vimeo URL link. Include names of people and cars/boats in the description caption under each photo upload. The photos should capture the progress of your project, the program and people in action. Images should be suitable for use in RPM’s publications and websites, with appropriate releases to be provided. Please note that you can add new project updates, add upload images with any computer or mobile device. The KoolProjects.com website is also optimized to be used on any smartphone and has the option to do voice-to-text for journal updates. 7. Evaluating your project funded by the RPM grant is expected. An evaluation form is included in this package. It is important to track the success and limitations of the funded project. With the goals of the project in mind, please keep a record of the achievements, number of participants, costs, etc. made toward the stated goals 8. We plan to schedule a site visit during the term of the grant. A Skype or Facetime walkthrough will substitute if a site visit is not possible. If you are in agreement with these terms of acceptance for the grant, please sign and date this form, keeping a copy for your own records, and return the original to RPM. Thank you. Grant Recipient Signature: Print Name:
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COLLATERAL MATERIALS Holiday Card Under the Hood – Above-and-Beyond the Call of Duty 2017 RPM At-A-Glance Map Emily Hatsigeorgiou story reprint The Drive Home III RPM/The Creative Workshop Cars & Coffee flyer Shop Hop Arizona flyer
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Snowflakes, Friendship & Winter Cheer — Plus a Full Tank of Gas Throughout the Year!
Cheers to Fueling the Future! The RPM Foundation supports Restoration and Preservation training programs and Mentoring for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by RPM safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults.
Warm Wishes, The RPM Team!
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Under the HOOD
The Newsletter of RPM Foundation • Above & Beyond the Call of Duty
Message from the President RPM has kept busy and active with weekly, if not daily, social media postings and expanded website pages to include other scholarship sources we’ve discovered along-the-way. A new OPPORTUNITIES page lists paid and volunteer jobs around the United States, which RPM also pushes to our network. Like us on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheRPMFoundation, follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/rpm_foundation and visit our website www.rpm.foundation.
We’ve had great successes from coast-to-coast in the last few years. Our strategy includes hosting impactful Summit Meetings, offering complimentary Shop Hops and Off To The Races with RPM, and inviting hundreds of students-teachers-parents to Concours and auctions. Not to mention awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants funding restoration programs, scholarships, gap-funding, internships and apprenticeships. In addition, we have been building communities of schools-students-shops-clubs-collectors in automotive hot spots, while stimulating the educational pipeline to include restoration and preservation at the high school level, where education is still free!
What’s next? Our recently formalized Career Services program supports students as they take their experiences to the next level getting jobs. That, after all, is our ultimate mission.
Our formula is simple – find the above-and-beyond the call of duty teachers like Garrick Green from McPherson College, Mike Ronan from Alfred State College and Roy Klinger from Pennsylvania College of Technology and reach out to them with opportunities for their students. This formula includes connecting the dots, like we did with East Syracuse Minoa High School which we read about in Hemmings. That story motivated us to call the instructor which lead to student outreach with a complimentary program, a site visit, and suggested funding opportunities through the instructor’s network!
See you along the way,
Diane Fitzgerald, President
INSPIRED TEACHERS GO ABOVE-AND-BEYOND “In the current education climate, where students are directed toward 4-year universities, students interested in trades are often overlooked. The solution to this always begins with an inspired teacher who will go that extra mile to motivate and mentor students. With this teacher, alliances can be made with programs both within and outside schools to help such students who want to pursue a trade in restoration and preservation.” — RPM Ambassador Ronn Seiber, Retired Teacher and Principal, Hillsborough, NC
Pennsylvania College of Technology automotive restoration instructor Roy Klinger introducing future students to the custom-build projects of second year students. While there are many students across the United States who are passionate about collector cars, they don't know about careers in restoration. RPM spreads the word and helps recruit students for post-secondary educational programs.
The Great Race 2017 made a lunch stop at The Gilmore Museum in Hickory Corners, MI, with the Alfred State College Team among the "racers." Here is RPM Ambassador Bud McIntire with automotive instructor Mike Ronan and his students, all AACA members, with their 1953 Dodge Power Wagon Wrecker.
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Under the HOOD PIT STOP – Above and Beyond at Bonneville With the myriad of car events I attend on behalf of RPM Foundation, as well as my personal passion, you’d think that I’ve done it all. Not so! I’ve wanted to run on the Bonneville Salt Flats for decades. I was invited to race at the Utah Salt Flats Racing Association’s (USFRA) 31st Annual World Speed Event in September. I joined the USFRA, got the rule book, learned about the car – a Lakester, and what I needed to do as a driver. Combining creativity, design, and the engineering ingenuity to “build something to Lyn and her pit crew with the Lakester, her car at USFRA's 31st a diverse set of rules that will go fast on an unknown surface” is the whole point of Annual World Speed Event. Bonneville. Who wouldn’t want to experience that? Vastly diverse types of vehicles run on the salt and the unknown surface (no one knows what condition the salt surface will be in until the day of the meet) contributes to the challenge. Three days after arriving on the incredible salt it was my chance to drive, but it proved to be dangerously windy so the course was shut down. The highlight of the event for me was the arrival of 14 school buses full of high school students. Several colleges were also there testing their speed machines, including the instructors and students of Utah Valley University, a school RPM has been tracking because of their above-and-beyond the call of duty teachers and their interest in restoration programing. How cool to see so many kids excited to be around these vehicles, asking questions, and taking photos. What a great experience!
Lyn has waited decades to run on the Bonneville Salt Flats. She did it!
As I checked out of the hotel on the last day, my phone rang and someone from the team said, “Get suited up – we’re getting ready to run the course with you in it.” And I did! When asked “is it what you expected?” my reply is “I had no idea what to expect, and kept an open mind.” The patience required, the problem solving, the ability to brave the elements, and the determination are beyond anything else I’ve done in racing. The experience was truly beyond my wildest dreams.
CHECK IT OUT! RPM Foundation is dedicated to ensuring that the critical skills necessary to preserve and restore collector vehicles are not lost, by providing scholarships and educational grants to students and organizations committed to hands-on training of future craftsmen. RPM promotes the skilled trades within the industry, creates opportunities for young people to learn from industry leaders, and develops partnerships within the collector car industry. The goal is skills development that opens doors to future employment in the vintage automobile, motorcycle and boat industries. Below are job and scholarship opportunities offered by the RPM Network. Additional information on employment, grant and scholarships can be found at www.rpm.foundation.
OPPORTUNITIES Experienced Restoration Technician at Donovan Motor Car, Lenox, MA Well-known and trusted source for service and restoration of British European and domestic automobiles on the East Coast is seeking a full-time restoration technician to work in all aspects of auto repair and restoration. Proven auto craftsmanship skills are essential. info@donovanmotorcar.com In the Donovan Motorcar Service, Lenox, MA, showroom, owner Brian Donovan, left, discusses his prized Jaguar with Ryan Levesque, center (RPM's first apprentice and current Ambassador), and Donovan's marketing expert, Dean Forsman.
OTHER SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES SEMA Memorial Scholarship Program — Deadline: March 1, 2018 Offers financial of up to $5,000 to help foster the next generation of automotive aftermarket industry leaders and innovators. www.sema.org/scholarships
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Under the HOOD: Scholar Spotlight Andrew Graham isn’t leaving anything to chance. With graduation from Pennsylvania College of Technology only six months away, Andrew is hot on the trail with RPM to access all resources to put him in the driver’s seat. His above-and-beyond approach to securing full-time employment has led him to take advantage of every program and service RPM has to offer, including contacting RPM’s Career Services experts to review his cover letters and resume, and keeping on top of job opportunities posted on RPM’s website. This is Andrew’s “Car Guy” story.
In the First Person: Andrew Graham Very early in my life, either 2001 or 2002, I received a red Power Wheels Jeep Wrangler for my birthday. My mother tells me she fought my father over it and won, I would say. It’s quite possible that was the start of my car addiction. If it wasn’t then, it was a year or so later on my first ride on the Ford 5000 tractor we ran around on my grandparent’s farm where I live. RPM scholar, Andrew Graham, with his pride and joy
It was my mother along with my grandfather and namesake, Andrew, who nurtured – a 1974 1/2 MGB GT, one of less than 1300 in the US with rubber bumpers. In the garage at Pennsylvania my interest in automobiles all through elementary school. It finally blossomed to a College of Technology. full-blown addiction when I got a phone call one autumn afternoon – it was my grandfather needing help on the 5000. I got down to the barn to help out and climbed into the driver’s seat. I worked the hand throttle as he measured the voltage output and the battery voltage. The generator output was zero, and the battery was slowly dropping off until the tractor finally died. Working together, we brought her back to life. Things came full circle last summer when that old 5000 started having the same issue again. Using what I’ve learned as an automotive restoration technology major at school, I found the generator to be faulty. A single wire Chevrolet alternator swapped on easily and got rid of the Lucas generator and voltage regulator. The old 5000 is running good as new again. I can’t help but wonder what cars as a livelihood can mean for me. Converting something I love to do into a job and then a career. But I’d like to find out. Automobiles are the pen and paper of life, how we write our memories and how we read them back. These stories need caretakers, someone to freshen up the ink and keep the paper crisp and white. I will be one of those caretakers and keep people’s memories and wonders alive.
TELL ME ABOUT IT! Car guy and RPM supporter, Lou Costabile, is host and producer of YouTube’s “My Car Story With Lou.” He has over 1000 fantastic collector cars on the channel! View the videos – pretty short at about five minutes each, and hear some fascinating car stories. It’s a great place to learn about the collector cars you’re seeing at car shows, Concours and driving around town. www.youtube.com/user/loucostabile
COUNTDOWN WITH RPM! NASA astronaut, Drew Feustel, is quite lit-
Car Guy, Lou Costabile, on the job, talking cars with his YouTube audience.
erally going “ABOVE AND BEYOND!” The RPM volunteer Ambassador and automotive restoration fanatic is preparing to spend six months on the International Space Station when he takes off in March. As part of RPM's Shop Hop series in May, SHOP HOP HOUSTON will feature a stop at NASA where participants will “meet” with Drew via video feed from the Space Station to the NASA control room. This Shop Hop coordinates with Keels & Wheels Concours d’Elegance, Seabrook, TX, when we will be offering RPM’s Concours Experience. Students attending Shop Hop Houston will be a mix of local and national RPM students. It should be a ‘blast!’
NASA astronaut and RPM Ambassador, Drew Feustel, center, and crewmates American astronaut/educator Ricky Arnold (l) and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev (r) will blast off to the International Space Station in March 2018. Keep track of Drew and his crew by visiting www.nasa.gov. 2702 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421 Toll Free: 855.537.4579 Email: info@rpm.foundation Website: www.rpm.foundation
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What is America's Automotive Trust?
BOARD of DIRECTORS Dan Beutler, VP of Accounting & Controller, Hagerty (Traverse City, MI) Dawn Fisher, Vintage Racer, owner MFD Classic Motors (Lake Leelanau, MI) Keith Flickinger, Master Craftsman, Precision Motor Cars (Allentown, PA) McKeel Hagerty, Chairman & CEO, Hagerty (Traverse City, MI) Tabetha Hammer, Senior Manager – Car Culture, Hagerty (Traverse City, MI) David Madeira, Vice Chairman, America’s Automotive Trust (Tacoma, WA) Jim Menneto, Publisher, Hemmings Motor News (Bennington, VT) Paul Miller, President, LeMay – America’s Car Museum (Tacoma, WA) T.G. Mittler, Collector (Santa Fe, NM) Mike Stowe, Master Craftsman, Great Lakes Motor Works (Boyne City, MI)
The RPM Foundation is an entity of America’s Automotive Trust (AAT) whose vision is to secure America’s automotive heritage, to promote the continued enjoyment of the automobile, to ensure that America’s automotive legacy is celebrated, and that vintage and modern collectible vehicles will be driven by generations to come.
AMBASSADORS Patrick Barnes, Community College Instructor, retired; ACM Volunteer (Portland, OR and Indio, CA) Josh Baum, Conservator, Private Collection (Goleta, CA) Herb Clark, Automotive Restoration Club of Sun City West, founder (St. Louis, MO) Drew Feustel, NASA Astronaut (Houston, TX) Ryan Levesque, Lead Painter, Andritz, Inc. & RPM’s 1st apprentice (Montoursville, PA) Bud McIntire, Director, Great Lakes Boat Building School, retired (Winston Salem, NC) Stephen Murphy, Collection Manager & Curator, Private Collection (Chicago, IL) Jason Peters, Trimmer, SMS Automotive & RPM Scholar (Portland, OR) Burt Richmond, Collectors’ Car Garage (Chicago, IL) David Rising, Automotive Engineer, Tacoma-native (Esslingen, Germany) Ronn Sieber, High School Administrator, retired (Hillsborough, NC) Clint Sly, President, Collectors Financial Services (Belleair, FL) Lyn St. James, Indy Racer (Phoenix, AZ and Indianapolis, IN) Haydn Taylor, HT Motorworks (Detroit, MI) Josh Voss, Cross Action Classics (White Lake, MI)
RPMers welcoming America's Automotive Trust's new CEO, Adam Langsbard, to his new role, while attending The SEMA Show in Las Vegas, NV. Pictured here are RPM students, instructors, shop owners, ambassadors, donors and sponsors.
“Thank you for providing financial assistance for my internship. I would not be able to afford living away during school without it. It is vital that students in the automotive industry be able to step into the real-world environment through internships.”
STAFF Diane Fitzgerald, President, RPM Foundation (Chicago, IL) Stacy Puckett Taylor, RPM Ambassador & Interim Grants Administrator (Detroit, MI) Cathy Tierney, Administrative Coordinator, RPM Foundation (Chicago, IL)
— Aaron Israel, Student, McPherson College, McPherson, KS
PRESERVE THE PAST. BUILD THE FUTURE. Who We Are + What We Do
The RPM Foundation supports Restoration and Preservation training programs and Mentoring for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by RPM safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults.
Supporting RPM Foundation – Thank You! Help us achieve our goal of raising $1,000,000! With funding requests more than triple what we are able to giveaway, we need your support. Donations of any size are deeply appreciated. For more information, contact Diane Fitzgerald, President (diane@rpm.foundation, C: 312-543-5732 Direct: 855.537.4579 www.rpm.foundation).
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Please send your donation to: RPM Foundation, 2702 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421 Or you may make a donation online at: www.rpm.foundation As a U.S. Treasury approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization, the RPM Foundation is qualified to accept tax deductible gifts and enables a donor to arrange charitable contributions in ways that maximize personal objectives in a tax effective manner.
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RPM At-A-Glance PROGRAMS AWARDEES:
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Gig Harbor Boat Shop Harbor History Museum
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7 CYCLE THREE GRANTS AWARDED: 83% AUTOMOTIVE & 17% MARINE
Lowell’s Maritime Foundation, Inc.
Northwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding
Independence Seaport Museum
Lake Washington Institute of Technology
Off to the Races Great Lakes with RPM – Boatbuilding Thornton Fractional Road America School Off to the Races High School with RPM – Watkins Glen CONCOURS EXPERIENCE Freedom High School CONCOURS PAID Alfred State
LeMay — America’s Car Museum Clover Park Technical College
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THE 2018 BULL MARKET LIST Don’t wait. Now’s the time for these nine cars.
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T H E S E R V I C E D E P T. RPM: Restoration. Preservation. Mentorship.
Hatsigeorgiou has gotten terrific hands-on experience working on her instructor’s ’66 Mustang drag car.
RPM Foundation provides scholarships, formal training, and mentorship to the next generation of automotive and marine restorers and preservationists. Learn more at rpm.foundation.
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF HER FATHER With a little career advice from Dad and a grant from the RPM Foundation, Emily Hatsigeorgiou is on her way. EMILY HATSIGEORGIOU ADMITS SHE was like a lot of teens graduating from high school these days: She didn’t have a clue what to do with her life. “So I sat down with my dad,” she says. “My father has been a mechanic his whole life and mentioned how happy he had been with his career. He told me that as a woman, there would probably
be some good opportunities in the field.” After 30 years at General Motors as a technician and then supervisor, her dad’s still there and loving it. “Watching his career and his success was really a big influence,” she says. Hatsigeorgiou’s father brought his work home with him, too. She remembers he had a couple Pontiac GTOs and was into the local
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drag racing scene. He was a regular at the car shows around the family home in Howell, Michigan, and he brought Emily and her two older sisters along. “He was always working on one of our daily drivers,” she recalls. “Oil changes. Brake jobs. I feel like there was always a Corsica he was working on…and I was always there helping him, handing him the tools. I guess I was always a ‘Daddy’s girl.’” Hatsigeorgiou (haatsi-george-e-oh) not only took her father’s advice, she followed through in a big way. Through her program in auto services at Washtenaw Community College, she got an invite in November 2016 to SEMA’s annual tradeshow in Las Vegas. For four days, she met people from across the industry. She also attended some inspirational lectures, including one about women in the industry, by TV personality and women’s land speed record holder Jessi Combs. “I also met RPM Foundation president Diane Fitzgerald, and she was just great. I guess we hit it off, because the relationship has been incredibly helpful in opening doors.” Hatsigeorgiou’s chance encounter also kicked off a busy year. After starting classes last January, she landed a 10-day, all-expenses-paid foundation internship in Scottsdale, working at the Arizona Concours and also at Gooding & Company, where she prepped cars for the show and the auction. “Then Diane was speaking to people at the Revs Institute, and my name came up. Revs was looking for students to come to their March symposium. I got invited and was able to meet some of the best preservation and restoration experts in the industry.” Hatsigeorgiou is now looking forward to graduating in May 2018. “School involves a lot of hands-on work—basically, building up and tearing down cars. At Washtenaw we also have a drag team, so we work on the cars in the shop. One of the cars owned by my instructor, Mike Duff, is a ’66 Mustang that he races at the Milan Dragway. It’s a 9.85-second car. It’s wonderful that he lets us do so much work on it.” When Hatsigeorgiou graduates, she’ll be a certified tech. And she’s got a full-time job lined up at the GM Proving Grounds in Milford. But really, she says, the possibilities are endless. “My career path is still taking shape. GM has been such an influential company in my life. Working there will be pretty spectacular.”—Bob Butz editor@hagerty.com Photo by Sandon Voelker
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Toll Free: 855.537.4579 Website: www.rpm.foundation
RM SOTHEBY’S MAGAZINE • SUMMER 2017
CELEBRATING 70 F E R R A R I ’S A N N I V E R S A R Y TA K E S T H E G L O B A L S TA G E
RPM Foundation Keeps the Future of Collector Cars on Track BY WILLIAM HALL
William Hall is a writer, car collector, and classic car industry analyst based in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. He is the Midwest Editor for ClassicCars.com and a frequent contributor to Hemmings Motor News, as well as a Steering Committee member for America’s Automotive Trust.
One of the biggest questions about the future of the collector car hobby is, “Who will replace the craftsmen currently restoring and servicing our classic cars?” Not taking future technicians for granted, the RPM Foundation – which stands for Restoration, Preservation, and Mentorship – works to promote vocational education and job placement within the classic car industry. In RPM’s Racing Program Series, the focus is on promoting career opportunities surrounding vintage motorsports. Their “Off to the Races” day at the Road America race track in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin, brought together legendary Indy Car racer Lyn St. James and 30 students from local high schools and technical colleges to spend an afternoon exploring the unique skills required to keep the paddock rumbling. St. James test-fitted students behind the wheel of a race-prepped vintage Mustang, which for some was their first tactile experience with a highperformance automobile. Much of the mechanical exposure that we took for granted, whether in high school shop class or
time spent in the garage with dad, is no longer accessible to today’s adolescents. RPM calls this skillgap “The Lost Hours,” and one of the Foundation’s directives is to foster those rudimentary mechanical interests. “Today, some students entering their first year studying automotive restoration technology have not even changed a tire,” said RPM Foundation President Diane Fitzgerald. Veteran coachbuilder Mark Gerisch, who operates an onsite metal fabrication shop and school at Road America, weighed in on the dilemma. “I’m very thankful that I had the opportunity to live in England and other places in the world to learn
The RPM Foundation’s “Off to the Races” invited students to observe the trades involved in vintage racing. More than 35 students from Illinois and Wisconsin participated in the daylong program. Some travelled more than 150 miles one-way to learn about restoration and racing at Road America.
The RPM Foundation is an entity of America's Automotive Trust.
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from old world craftsmen. I got there at the tail end of the mentorapprentice training era. That opportunity is no longer available,” said Gerisch. “The solution begins with introducing a young person to the many facets of the classic car hobby,” said Fitzgerald, “and continues with the encouragement that a career in the industry can be both respectable and rewarding.” The RPM Foundation supports restoration and preservation training programs for the next generation of auto and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources, and grants provided by the RPM Foundation safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults. The RPM Foundation is based in Chicago with an office in Tacoma, Washington, and ambassadors in 11 states and abroad.Visit www. rpm.foundation, email info@rpm.foundation, or call toll free (855) 537 4579 for more information. RM Sotheby’s is a partner with the RPM Foundation and America’s Automotive Trust in promoting vocationaleducation for the classic car industry.
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CELEBRATE THE DRIVE HOME III WITH THE RPM F OUNDATION & THE CREATIVE WORSHOP. MINGLE WITH FELLOW AUTOMOTIVE ENTHUSIASTS AND WELCOME THE DRIVE HOME III CARAVAN AND CREW FOR A BEHIND-THE-SCENES LOOK AT THE STAGING AREA FOR THE ANNUAL WINTER ROAD RALLY “HOME” TO THE MOTOR CITY FOR THE OPENING OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL AUTO SHOW.
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 2018 11 AM - 2 PM EST Doors open - 11 am TDH III Driver intros & RPM remarks - 1 pm Caravan send off - 2 pm
THE CREATIVE WORKSHOP – 118 HILL STREET, DANIA BEACH, FL 33004 954-920-3303 www.thecreativeworkshop.com BRING YOUR COLLECTOR VEHICLE AND SHARE THIS INVITATION WITH YOUR CAR CLUB. Come tour the restoration shop and learn about the RPM Foundation. Meet TDH III crew & check out the vehicles. Send the caravan off in style or join the fun and cruise with us to TDH III kickoff at the Casa de Montecristo in Boca Raton!
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Automotive Restoration Students! SHOP HOP Arizona 2018 Tour with RPM and start shaping your future! Visit three automotive restoration shops, one hot rod and custom shop and two classic car collections over one weekend. Meet shop owners and collectors and learn about potential internship opportunities and the job market, not to mention see some incredible cars! This job-fair-on-wheels is a fantastic opportunity to share your passions, interests and skills with master craftsmen. Possible end game: Some serious under-the-hood time as a paid intern in Summer 2018! Meet as a group and caravan together to six exceptional Scottsdale, AZ-area shops and collections! Parents and automotive teachers are welcome, too!
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SUNDAY, JANUARY 14th
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8:00am Vintage Iron & Restoration Coffee & Donuts – Cruise-In by RPM Welcome and Orientation with Mark Scalpone Student sign in, Welcome, Introductions & Orientation
9:00-11:15am Shop Tour, Collector Talk with Dana Rapoport, Q&A with Mark and Dana Vintage Iron & Restoration is a full-service restoration shop and maintenance facility specializing in American cars and hot rods. Address: 15931 N. 80th Street, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (480-922-2480) www.vintageironandrestoration.com
— STOP TWO — 11:30am British Automotive Repair Welcome and Introductions with Greg and Debbie Nel
12:30-1:00pm LUNCH at British Automotive Repair – Hosted by RPM 1:00-2:15pm Tour, Collector Talk and Q&A with Greg and Jon Konwiser. British Automotive Repair is a full-service repair facility specializing in Aston Martin, Bentley, Rolls Royce and Jaguar. Address: 14850 N. 83rd Place, Suite A-1, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 (480-596-5247) www.britishautoaz.com
— S TOP THREE — 3:00-5:00pm Scottsdale Automotive Museum Welcome and Tour with Rich Heinrich This is a private collection which hosts some of the world’s finest collector cars including pre-war European and historic race cars. Address: 6440 E. McDowell, Scottsdale, AZ 85257
8:30am Patrick Motorsports
Coffee & Donuts – Cruise-In by RPM Welcome and Orientation with James Patrick
9:00-11:15am Shop Tour with James Patrick, Collector Talk with Philippe Reyns, Q&A with James and Philippe. Patrick Motorsports specializes in the restoration and race prep of vintage Porsche and other European vehicles. Address: 4114 E. Washington St., Phoenix, AZ 85034 (602-244-0911) www.patrickmotorsports.com
— S TOP FI V E — 11:30am Martin Auto Museum
Tour and Collector Talk with Rick Simmers
1:00-2:15pm LUNCH Working lunch at Martin Museum – Hosted by RPM. Stacy Puckett Taylor and Diane Fitzgerald will discuss RPM Career Services and provide resume and cover letter samples. This museum houses the collection of lifelong car enthusiast Mel Martin. Address: 17641 N. Black Canyon Highway, Phoenix, AZ 85024 (602-298-2377) www.martinautomuseum.org
— S TOP S I X— 2:30pm American Legends Hot Rods and Muscle Cars Welcome and Introductions with Tony Arme.
3:00-4:15pm Tour, Collector Talk, and Q&A with Tony and a Collector 4:15-5:15pm Wrap up and group discussion about the shops visited and key things to do to get a shop job.
This shop specializes in custom hot rods and performance builds. Address: 21601 N. 21st Ave., Suite 2, Phoenix, AZ 85027 (623-213-7288) www.alhotrods.com
STUDENTS: Important Details
COST = Your fuel + business cards
THIS IS AN INVITATION-ONLY EVENT, YOU MUST REGISTER TO PARTICIPATE. SPACE IS LIMITED. • DRIVE Your favorite classic or daily driver. You get there on your own and caravan with the group to each stop along the way. • BRING RESUME with skills listed. Portfolio if you have one. Shop owners will provide job descriptions/shop descriptions. • BRING BUSINESS CARDS: Get some made up with your name, email, and cell number from www.vistaprint.com (500/$10) – include a graphic/photo (examples: school mascot, your first car or a favorite car!). •D RESS CODE: Dress to impress – you may be meeting your future boss! Clean and crisp shop attire – tucked-in dress shirts, tidy pants, “school uniform.” • SIGN A WAIVER: All attendees must sign a separate waiver and release form and disclaimer to be provided by RPM Foundation. To register or for more information, contact Stacy Puckett Taylor (stacy@rpm.foundation, C: 313-655-5797)
EVERYONE WHO ATTENDS BOTH DAYS OF SHOP HOP ARIZONA WILL BE ENTERED IN A DRAWING FOR FREE TICKETS TO SEVERAL HIGH-END CLASSIC CAR AUCTIONS TAKING PLACE DURING CAR WEEK! DON’T MISS OUT!
Register for SHOP HOP Arizona by telling us your AUTObiography! What’s your “car guy” story? How did you become interested in cars and what cars grab your attention, old and new? Do you collect cars and memorabilia yet? What collections have you seen or car shows have you attended? Are cars part of your future? Name:
Today’s Date:
Grade/Age:
Email Address:
Cell Phone:
Expected/Graduation Date:
School:
Auto Tech Instructor:
School Address & Website:
Please provide a brief biography of your car-self, about 60-100 words. Also, why do you want to attend this program? And what do you hope to get out of attending it?
SIGNED WAIVER AND RELEASE MUST ACCOMPANY YOUR REGISTRATION. The RPM Foundation supports Restoration and Preservation training programs and Mentoring for the next generation of automotive, motorcycle and marine craftsmen. As the educational arm of America’s Automotive Trust, the services, resources and grants provided by RPM safeguard the future of the collector vehicle industry by sustaining hands-on training for young adults. The RPM Foundation is based in Chicago with offices in Tacoma, WA and Detroit, MI. Office: 2702 East D Street, Tacoma, WA 98421 Email: info@rpm.foundation Toll Free: 855.537.4579 Website: www.rpm.foundation