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2017 Annual Report Riverside Boat Club 2017 ANNUAL REPORT CAMBRIDGE, MA 2 MISSION STATEMENT Riverside supports the attainment of its members’ rowing goals, from recreation to the highest level of international competition, and promotes the art and enjoyment of rowing by providing safe facilities, quality rowing equipment and coaching in a friendly, collaborative, social community. RIVERSIDE BOAT CLUB 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Mission Statement 2 Table of Contents 3 President’s Letter 4 Operating Income and Expenses 5 Service & Community 6 Magazine Beach 6 Boston Public Schools Outreach 6 Head of the Q 6 Landscape Maintenance for DCR 7 Volunteer Report 8 Program Highlights 11 High Performance Group 11 Sculling 11 Men’s Sweep 13 Women’s Sweep 14 Masters 15 Boathouse Development 16 Thank you to Our Donors 18 Donor List 18 2017 Stripes Gala 21 2017 Board of Directors 22 Committee Leadership 23 Acknowledgements 24 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 4 PRESIDENT’S LETTER Our goal is to increase our fundraising Dear Riverside members, alumni, friends base to include 100% of our membership and and family, expand fundraising beyond our membership Thank you for your volunteer service and to our alumni and other stakeholders and to support, your collaboration and your Riverside explore additional sources of revenue through spirit. sponsorship. We celebrate many accomplishments this year. Thank you for your commitment to Riverside. Go Stripes! • Engaging 37 new provisional and 20 new Sincerely, senior members and hundreds of volunteers Lynn R. Osborn • Collaborating with Cambridge Riverside Board President Neighborhood Association and Magazine Beach Partners on improving Magazine I would like to acknowledge our outgoing Beach Board Members. • Hosting Simmons College and the Seven Caro Gray Bosca has served as Captain since Sisters Regatta 2013 and will continue to assist the Engineering • Engaging a new scholastic rowing program Committee and support the new Captain in – welcome BC High transition. • Empowering the coaching committee to Neil Harrigan has served as Trustee since design and manage coaching for sculling 2015 and will continue on the Development, and masters sweep Design and Engineering Committees as we • Raising over $125k in the Campaign for move forward with Slab and Dock replacement. Riverside Alex Bailey has served as Secretary since • Riverside Stripes competing and winning 2015 and will continue to support the Board in locally, regionally, nationally and training the new secretary and assisting with internationally volunteer recruitment. • Training and sending seven HPG athletes to represent the USA at worlds To thank our returning Board members: • Winning the HOCR points trophy • Trey Chandler, Vice President. • Carrie Main, Treasurer The Board and Committees are continuing • Liane Keister, Trustee implementation of the strategic plan for • Karen Chenausky, Trustee Riverside’s future by recruiting, engaging and mentoring emerging Riverside leaders and And welcome to our new board members: moving forward with our aspirations to upgrade • Evan Bailey: Captain our facilities, enhance our program strategy • Ashley Amos: Secretary and supporting our coached programs. • Pete Morelli: Trustee RIVERSIDE BOAT CLUB 5 OPERATING INCOME & EXPENSES Income 2017 Operating Income $334,733 Fleet Sales, $27,432 , 8% Rack, Locker & Key, $31,053 , 9% Head of the Charles Party, $9,482 , 3% Trailer Fees, $9,757 , 3% Simmons & BC High, Regattas, $11,922 , $33,200 , 10% 4% Member Dues, $211,888 , 63% Expenses Regattas, 2017 Operating Expense $325,422 Scholarship & $5,705 , 2% Trailer Travel, $5,239 , Donations, $1,750 , 1% Development, $7,072 , 2% 2% Social Events, $1,285 , 0% Erg & Oar Purchase, $10,703 , 3% Coach Salary, $79,096 , 24% Fleet Rental, $10,191 , 3% Fundraising, $16,644 , 5% Building & Grounds, $17,316 , 5% Operating Expense, $34,450 , 11% Rigger, Fleet Fleet Purchase, Maintenance & $51,237 , 16% Insurance, $39,427 , 12% Administrative Expense, $45,307 , 14% 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 6 SERVICE & COMMUNITY Collaborating with Program Manager Melissa Luc, we designed a series of activities about Magazine Beach transportation that were complementary to the curriculum. Over the course of 4 sessions, the In collaboration with the Cambridgeport Riverside volunteers helped students explore Neighborhood Association, Riverside is an the strengths and weaknesses of different enthusiastic supporter of the restoration of modes of transportation in different contexts. Magazine Beach and the renovation of its As the final project, students created pop-ups historic powder house. that illustrated a place they wanted to visit and The club again hosted the association’s annual the mode of transportation they would use to park fundraiser in 2017. Its members contributed get around that place. in force to the association’s efforts to remove The students greatly enjoyed building the pop invasive plants from the park’s wetlands. ups and Melissa Luc has welcomed Riverside to Riverside has been an active member of the lead similar programming in the future. This neighborhood-based stakeholders’ committee initial pilot highlighted opportunities to improve advising the Massachusetts Department of the structure and planning of the activities but Conservation and Recreation and the City of shows great promise as a volunteer project to Cambridge on the design for park’s restoration, be replicated in BPS or the Cambridge schools. which has reached 85 percent completion. With Overall, the program included 54 hours of the project moving toward the implementation volunteer time which allowed us to provide stage, the committee recently incorporated as support for each of the six third grade classes— a 501C3 non-profit organization, whose board reaching a total of 78 students. In the future, includes a Riverside member. creating programs with weekend or after school components will likely increase membership Boston Public Schools Outreach involvement, as the daytime schedule was limiting to some members who expressed This summer, 4 volunteers from Riverside interest in the program. designed and led a series of enrichment activities in the Boston Public Schools Summer Early Head of the Q Focus program. The volunteer effort was created as a way to address the club’s need for “public The Head of the Quinobequin is a juniors-only, access” without straining the infrastructure singles only, head race that takes place on the of the club. The Summer Early Focus program Charles the Sunday before HOCR. (Quinobequin supports upcoming 1st through 3rd graders is a Native American name for the Charles River.) who need additional literacy help. The Riverside The 3200m race begins at the Eliot Bridge and volunteers focused on enrichment activities for ends at the North Beach Street Bridge. the 3rd grade classes, which were exploring how Long-time Riverside member Kate Sullivan bikes work and designing a bike-friendly city. has been on the regatta committee for two RIVERSIDE BOAT CLUB 7 years and helps with the logistics of getting and started a structural porch repair that will 100+ juniors in singles safely through the race be completed in early 2018. course. The race committee is made up of representatives from Union, RBC, CBC, and CRI and is a great collaborative effort. This year Riverside was represented by Kevin McDonnell, Kate Sullivan, and Molly Hamrick. The Riverside Juniors have been participating in the regatta since it began in 2014. This year we had a record 21 entries for the RBC Juniors, getting several top placements in the U17 and U19 categories. The RBC Juniors are incredibly lucky to have such a supportive boat club behind them. This year we were able to use all seven of the club singles and ten members lent us their private singles as well! HOTQ is a very special event and if you are around the boathouse next year the Sunday before HOCR, look out for the ever-growing fleet of juniors launching for the race. Landscape Maintenance for DCR The Building and Grounds Committee had over 15 work parties in 2015, 9 for outdoor projects and 6+ for indoor cleaning and maintenance. Outdoor projects included lawn maintenance, shoreline and property clean-up, aeration of the lawns, and trees assessed and pruned (in conjunction with DCR). In all these efforts, we have had strong participation by both senior and provisional members. These efforts underscore a membership that takes pride in our boathouse as a symbol of our heritage and standards of excellence. The B&G team also oversaw several repairs and maintenance projects. The team led a major functional overhaul of our dock system 2017 ANNUAL REPORT 8 VOLUNTEER REPORT with several participating in the Cambridgeport Neighborhood Association (CNA). Regardless Riverside Boat Club is an entirely volunteer-run of residency, many club members are actively organization. In 2017, members collectively logged involved in the neighborhood’s larger initiative over 2000 hours of service to support and maintain to revitalize the parkland between the Magazine the club, in addition to the hundreds of volunteer Beach playing fields and the boathouse. The club hours our board of directors invests each year. has organized members to participate in multiple Volunteers spent over 400 hours this year Charles River Cleanups, attend Magazine Beach cleaning the boathouse, work on the building work parties, and to help set up and attend the and docks, and taking care of the lawn and CNA Fall Fundraiser, which has been held at garden on our outdoor property. Another 250 Riverside for the last three years. hours were spent maintaining the Riverside fleet of club boats. However, the volunteer work wasn’t all just manual labor: members donated time to fundraise for the Riverside annual fund, plan and host social and community events, manage the Riverside newsletter and social media, and contribute to the Charles River and Cambridgeport community. Riverside volunteers support not just Riverside, but the Charles River rowing community as well. One of Riverside’s largest volunteer events of each year is hosting the Cromwell Cup Regatta, a 1000m race held in the powerhouse every July.
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