Students | About 130, from southern, eastern and central Oregon, Lane County and the Willamette Valley |
By village | About 75 builders in three villages; 17 culinary; about 20 communications; plus the safety team |
Educators and counselors | About 35 |
Agency personnel on site daily | 24–32 |
Volunteers | About 100 over the week; 40 or more on a given day |
Core partners | Eight agencies and organizations, listed in “Who’s behind Ready2Respond” |
Planning runway | About four and a half months of intensive planning by a core team of 12–14 |
Cash budget | Under $300,000, with the site, equipment and most staff time contributed in kind |
Units | 20 kits staged; about 10 completed units rolled out at the end of the week |
The recruiting flyer had aimed for 175 students and 20 construction educators, and the industry letter described about 200 students and educators. The camp that took shape came out of a compressed season. Taylor described “four and a half, five months of just absolutely intense work for about 12 to 14 people.” Then, he said, “it exploded.” In the final month, registrations, volunteers and partners arrived faster than the team could absorb them.
The cash figure is the one funders ask about most. Taylor told the site host afterward that the camp ran “for under 300,000 cash,” because partners contributed nearly everything else: the training center, the tents, the field kitchen, agency staff time and volunteer hours. The article “How to fund a Ready2Respond camp” explains how that worked, and why the team would not do it in the same order again.