Serve Our Willing Warriors: Window Campaign + Open House

Monday, May 19, 2014

Window Campaign + Open House

As many of you know, we were blessed with amazing weather for the Open House this month. Serve Our Willing Warriors hosts an Open House at the beginning of every month and this was definitely one to remember.

Between the tulips fully blossomed and the freshly cut grass that rippled in the wind outside of the retreat home, the Bull Run mountains never felt so serene.

We had freshly baked cookies and briskly brewed lemonade waiting for all of our guests that arrived on the property. This was the first event however, that a majority of our visitors wished to stay outside as opposed to indoors.

As for the donated jungle gym in the front yard of the home, it was the first time that anyone other than the faithful girl scouts enjoyed its monkey bars and 3 level swings. It truly brought back childhood memories where there was not a care in the world other than that moment in time. And I believe this is how many other visitors felt too as we made over $700 just from holding the open house.

We simply expressed to our visitors about our recent discovery of the condition of the windows on the property. It turns out that all 76 windows in this retreat home originally built in 1977 have to be replaced. Each window will cost the non-profit $250.

$250 x 71 windows = $17,750

with labor adjustments it would roughly be $20,000

Can you say yieks!? This price alone is double what it takes to install the elevator for the wheel-chair visitors of the retreat home.

Gladly by the end of the open house at least 2 windows were completely covered.

This inspired us to begin a Window Campaign. We would like our followers to pledge to one window a piece! One window at a time, we will make this dream a reality for our wounded vets.