LT2025-004-Roslyn Ronald Cle Elum Heritage Club

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Response 3: Describe how you will promote your evenUactivity/facility to attract tourists.* Our membership list includes 267 people. When we include past donors and inlerested parties our mailing list is double that with approximaiely 500 households with 33% mailed out of county and 20o/o out of state. Our email list is more extensive with an additional 150 people. We snail mail a year-end newsleiter that includes a calendar of events for the upcoming year. This year we began using Mail Chimp to email our monthly newsletier which includes advertising our events. All year we have been collecting email addresses of interested non-members to add to our distribution list and we will continue to focus on this aspect of promoting. We hired a professional photographer and videographer for our three main events to assist us with our digiial marketing efforts. We will continue to improve and plan on increasing our presence using video and social media. As a member of the Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce and we have been utilizing iheir resources to assist us with sharing and adveriising. Our area already sees a large number of tourists. We want to increase awareness of our unique local history and heritage sites. To do this we plan on utilizing signage, printed materials such as brochures, and advertising through social media, print media, and video. New to us this year was placing an ad in the Central Washington Visitors Guide published by the Daily Record and Kittitas County Chamber. 2500 character limit 4l Collaboration Response 4.'l: lf your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizationsr groups, or other events, how is this accomplished?* We are members of the Kittitas County Chamber of Commerce, CAMAH (Cascade Association of Museums, Arts & History), and the group of non-profit organizations of Upper Kittitas County. We partner and collaborate wiih over 60 businesses and organizations from both within and outside of Kittitas County. Most of these partnerships and collaborations have happened by meeiing in person with ihe organizer or business owner. Our group of volunteers have a broad reach and are deeply involved with our community which allows us to establish long lasting relationships. Partnering with the Order of Sons and Daughters of ltaly in America (OSDIA) Cle Elum Lodge to organize and host the UKC Bocce Tournament provides an opportunity to build this event into an annual celebration of a long-standing tradition in our area They are part of a network of 43 lodges in lhe State of Washinglon. With over 1200 rnembers state-wide, ihis greatly increases our exposure and reach, proved this year by almost doubling participation from our 1si year (2023). Our goal is to continue to grow this event. We are proud to have a strong partnership with Central Washington University's Department of Anthropology & Museum Studies and their Department of Special Collections and Digital Archives. Since 2017, we have utilized students and faculty to asslst us with Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) and Geographic lnformation System (GlS) mapping in Roslyn's Historic Cemeteries. This allows students real world experiences and provides data for our use. Networking has increased our reach io organizations outside of Kittitas County. lnvolvement with ihe Roslyn Cemetery has also provided us with the unique opportunity to network, collaborate and partner with several organizations locaied outside Kiititas County. New this yea., we are creating a sponsorship plan to provide long term viabiliiy for our events. We worked with a handful of small businesses as part of a pilot project with a plan to launch full scale efforts this fall for our events in 2A25. The businesses were excited to support us and become more involved. They also provided valuable feedback on how to improve our plan for next year. 2500 character Iirnit Application Questions: Part 3 o