8 Pro-Tips for Retreat Planning
/We wrote this guide to help retreat planners save time and valuable energy by sharing eight tips to help make retreat planning and leading, better.
Read MoreWe wrote this guide to help retreat planners save time and valuable energy by sharing eight tips to help make retreat planning and leading, better.
Read More…we had just two problems–finding a suitable location and raising funds. The first was formidable enough.
Read MoreHere is the Fab Fellers Crew and the finished product, a nicely well kept open space with garden!
Read MoreThis flower was a new one to us last year. This year it is everywhere!
Read MoreThe air is warming up and the camp is clean and ready for your return.
Read MoreIt really isn’t an understatement to say we are stunned on a daily basis by what we get to see here at Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center of the Sierra.
Read MoreIt’s a busy day today at Applegate Jesuit Retreat Center as we continue…
Read MoreThe slowness at Monte Toyon allows for a nature walk through camp when normally times are too busy to see the beautiful splendor. We caught this busy bee at work pollinating this gorgeous bloom. The Albino Redwood and cave tree never disappoints and reminds us that time stands still when we stand in wonder at how long this tree has stood still and seen the world through many revisions.
As part of our customer care, we want you to know we are here, we are listening and we are happy to answer your questions.
Read MoreWe are starting to reap the rewards of renewal with some apple blossoms from an itty bitty apple tree we planted.
Read MoreJust 30 days ago were were buried by over 4 feet of snow. Then spring arrived and the snow melted.
Read MoreSpring is in the air and it is beautiful up here at Pilgrim Pines Camp. The only thing missing is the laughter of children, the hustle and bustle of busy camp life, and You!
Read MoreAt Monte Toyon Camp both Miller and Morris dorms have been well loved for many years.
Read MoreUnited Camps, Conferences & Retreats (UCCR) has announced that the nonprofit camp and retreat management organization will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2020.
UCCR was officially formed and registered as a nonprofit cooperative organization in 1970 by a group of Northern California clergy who sought to unite their efforts to manage their respective denominational camp and retreat properties. The design was to establish a central office that could handle accounting, reservations, staffing, and property oversight for seven church-owned camps and retreat centers throughout Northern California. UCCR established its first office at the Glide Memorial United Methodist Church in San Franscisco.
Over the years, UCCR has partnered with many non-profits to manage such as The Lighthouse for the Blind and the Optimist Foundation to manage their camp facilities.
In 1998, UCCR moved their office to a downtown office building in San Rafael. In 2006, the central office moved to Petaluma where it is still currently located. While the first thirty-eight years were spent managing camps and retreats in Northern California, in 2012 UCCR expanded to Southern California to manage Pilgrim Pines Camp & Conference Center.
Once it was understood that the UCCR central administrative office, located in Petaluma, California, could utilize the same management model at any location, UCCR began to offer facility management services to any camp, conference or retreat center in the United States.
Pilgrim Hills Camp & Conference Center, owned by the Ohio Conference of the United Church of Christ, was the first non-California facility UCCR managed. Since that time, UCCR has begun management of camp and retreat facilities in Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Michigan.
UCCR is a unique cooperative model in the camp and retreat industry. All of the properties are owned by nonprofit organizations. Representatives from each of the organizations make up the Owner’s Council. This provides an opportunity for owners to share ideas, participate in UCCR webinars, and work in close partnership with UCCR.
The Mission Statement:
UCCR builds relationships with property owners and guests to deliver exceptional services and business resources that empower camps, conference and retreat centers to flourish.
In 1989, the Web of Life Field (WOLF) School was created as a program of UCCR to provide quality Environmental Education to schools in California. Since that time, WOLF School has grown to be one of the finest providers of science and nature-based education, primarily to elementary school age groups.
Mike Carr, UCCR President since 2005, says, “UCCR works with great customers: nonprofit groups that use the facilities to further their mission then return to improve their communities.”
The organization is planning a special event to commemorate the 50th anniversary year. Past and current staff, board members, and friends of UCCR will gather in March 2020 to celebrate this unique business in the camp and retreat property management industry.
For more information about facility management services, visit camppropertymanagement.org.
To see the facilities we serve, visit Uccr.org.
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Read MoreWhen UCCR came into being in 1970 as a cooperative, the efforts were initially to unify management efforts on the part of the owners of church-owned camp properties.
Read MoreCamp and Retreat Property Management is such a niche field. It’s more than a typical commercial property management business because we don’t just handle the maintenance of facilities.
Read MoreWe are nearing the end of 2015 at Monte Toyon and it has been a great year. Our year was spent offering great service and a grand time to 111 groups who came to our site.
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