COMMUNITY MAYORS INC

Our goals are to enhance the lives of children with disabilities by providing a variety of recreational opportunities designed to accommodate their special needs, stimulate their interests and lift their spirits. For example we offer a Summer Camp Scholarship, which is a vehicle to broaden their horizons and build their independence.

We do this by developing a variety of unique events that provide these special children with recreational opportunities that allow them to have the same enjoyable experiences that most children take for granted. These events are designed to be emotionally and physically stimulating. In order to put together these events we partner with other organizations as well as different venues. The partnership we have with these venues and organizations allows us to provide these activities at reduced rates. The generosity of these partners, as well as our volunteers, mean that the funds we raise go almost exclusively to putting on the events for these special children.
Our volunteers come from all walks of life, from retirees to high schoolers. We have volunteers who work behind the scenes, as well as those who get the opportunity to interact with these special children. Many of our volunteers receive community service credit from their schools for participation.

The Community Mayors organization has almost 100 Mayors and over 1,000 volunteers that help to administer, coordinate and staff our events. In order to continue our mission into the future we need to continually add to our membership (Mayors and Associate Mayors) as well as our list of affiliated volunteers. Volunteers are essential for staffing our events and interacting with the children. Our Members are responsible for fund raising, recruitment and providing management of events. Each Mayor and/or Associate Mayor has an annual fund raising obligation and takes responsibility for chairing or co-chairing an event. Tools we use to keep our organization funded and growing include Email, Meet & Greets, Fundraising Events, Facebook and other social media, Press Releases to Local and National News Outlets.

Since our founding in 1875 the Community Mayors have provided recreational opportunities to hundreds of thousands of children.

Over the last several years we have doubled the number of programs we provide and in doing so we have significantly increased the number of children we have served. One of the ways we accomplished this is by reorganizing our administrative practices and procedures to be more efficient and updating our systems to allow for better tracking of expenses.

One of our biggest accomplishments is that we have done all of this with no paid staff – The Community Mayors is an all-volunteer organization.

Even with all that we do, we have not been able to accomplish significant name recognition or developed the ongoing streams of funding needed to continue and expand our programs and to secure the future of this great legacy!