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Methodology Narrative * Application Questions: Part 5 Please exp,ain. Being a small rnuseurr, WSSSM hosts welcome each and every guest into the museum and have a chance to chat and say hello. Volunteers are trained to count each and every guest and are now asking zip code and ifand where the person has stayed overnight and where. This "Direct Count" method will be invaluable in 2022. Attached is the WSSSM Operations Checklist form that is used by our volunteers to track information about visitors. We will also work with The Summit lnn, our host hotel, to obtain detailed information on heads in beds as a result of our in-person events for 2022. The past actual used in this report are number from 2019, the last full year WSSSM was open. The attached report shows details of our visitor survey. .ln 2019. we were open 4 days a week (Thurs-Sun) with an average of 29 visitors per day. , ln 2020, from January-March 15, traffic was up to 37 visitors per day. We then closed for Covid until Sept. 26 when we opened up for just 15 days (Sept. 26-Nov. 1 5) and had an average of 1 0 visitors per day (open just 2 days per week, Sat/Sun). We nrissed Dec 2020 due to Covid. . ln 2021 , we were closed Jan and Feb due to Covid which would have been a very busy time at the museum. We open Feb. 20 and traffic was slow until May 30 with just 13 visitors perday open Sat/Sun as the comnrunity began to open up. ln JunelJuly and August (which coincided with our adve(ising) traffic really increased to 35 per day. ln September 2021, we were at 28 people per day. . For 2022, we project to be open 3 days a week (Fri-Sun) and hopefully Fri and Sat nights (5-8 pm). With a projected average of 34 visitors per day (more in winter and summer and less in spring and fall) that puts us back to 5,304 visits per year. 2500 ch:iracter linrit 8l Funding Does your organization have, or have you applied for, grant funding fronr other sources? lf not, why not? lf yes, please list the funding you have for the project. including any volunteer and in-kind sources in Question 9l Project Budget Overview. Funding sources and amounts which have not yet been secured will be listed separately, in the field(s) directly below. Finally, what changes would occur if the project couldn't be funded? Other Funding* Explanation * Does your orgarriz:lion have. or ltave you applled fol lultding {ro|t other soLitces? : Yes ,r' No lf nol. vihy ncl'? ln 2021 , the Washington State Ski & Snowboard Museum was awarded a Nonprofit Community Recovery (NCR) grant in the ar"nount of $5.000. The purpose of the grant was to cover expenses incurred between March 1 . 2020, and June 30, 2021 , due to financial hardship caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the only other granl we have ever applied for. All of our oiher expenses are covered by fundraising- 2500 charircler linli! \ ,hal chaniles will be made jf iunding lor yoLrr requesi is trot availilble er recomlnended'? Should we not receive the grant from Kitititas County we will not execute on this extensive marketing campaign. 2500 c,raracter lirnit. Funding Shortfalls*