Funding the Golf Course
Letter to Kickstarter
Funding Goal
$17,000,000.00
Project Description
Build the
first golf course for Albania, America's strongest friend in Europe. The course
will be called "The Heroes of Golf Course," with each hole named
after a great hero of golf, a player, a coach/teacher, an architect/designer,
an equipment maker, a broadcaster, a corporate sponsor, an administrator. Each
donation is attached to the donor's nominee. Donors may donate $1.00 or more.
The nominees with the most votes will have, in order, a hole named in his or
her honor. Nominees beyond the first eighteen nominees with have a room or
table in the Club House named in their honor. The course would be designed by
the world-class golf course designer, Cal Olson.
The golf
course will be located on a prime track of land, a former national forest,
owned by the Albanian government, but on a 100 year lease, overlooking the
Adriatic Sea, 20 minutes from Mother Teresa Airport, and 40 minutes from
downtown Tirana, Albania. It is near the historic route used by Roman and
Byzantine Emperors.
The course
will have three "outdoor teaching links" to introduce children and
adults to the great game of golf.
The golf
course will be sustained by corporate and private membership fees and public
playing fees.
(Albania has
more than 300 "golf playing" days per year.)
The Heroes of
Golf Course is a major feature of the Global Academy for International
Athletics designed to serve the 99 nations that have never won an Olympic
medal. (See www.gaiaschool.info)
Project Rewards
$1.00 and up:
One vote per dollar for the donor's "hero of golf."
$50. In
addition to getting 50 votes, the patron's red brick, with his/her title and
full name is embedded in the cart trail.
$100. In
addition to getting 100 votes, and a red brick embedded in the cart trail, the
patron's name is engraved on the "Founders' Obelisk" at the entrance
to the Club House.
$1,000. In
addition to 1000 votes and all of the above, this patron is guaranteed a free
weekend of golf once a year.
$5,000. In
addition to 5,000 votes and all of the above, this patron will be invited to
participate in the formal Ceremonial Opening where the presidents and prime
ministers of all the Balkan nations, Albania, Kosovo, Macedonia, etc., will be
invited.
$10,000. In
addition to 10,000 votes, and all the above, a round-trip coach ticket for two
to the Ceremonial Opening.
$100,000. In
addition to 10,000 votes and all of the above, the Club House will bear this
person (or his or her nominee's) name.
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MESSAGE
My late wife and I have lived in or visited over 50
nations of the world. No nation's
ordinary citizens are as "pro-American" as Albanians. (Of course the primary reason is that the
great European powers wanted to break up Albania and divide it among
neighboring states following World War I and the breakup of the Ottoman
Empire. America's leading role in this
heroic story survived the decades of anti-American Communist rule.)
Per capita, I don't think any nation has provided more emperors to the Roman Empire (13, according to Rebecca West) or more saints to the world, the latest being Mother Teresa, or that provides a better model of close family ties, particularly between brothers and sisters, than Albania. The other 6,000 human societies are invited to learn more about this ancient land that once was called Illyria and which has much to teach the world.
William Maxwell, Ed.D.
Professor and President
The Global Academy for International Athletics
www.gaiaschool.info_______________________________________________________________
The Global Academy will be funded from the following income
streams:
A. Student Tuition: Each child’s tuition costs will be (U.S.) $52,000 per year. This generates, at maturity, 600 x $52,000 (approximately $30,000,000 per year.
B. Corporate sponsorships. Since sports “sell” all range of products, we anticipate, at maturity, a limit of 50 corporate sponsors each of whom will have access to these future world-class athletes. 50 x $100,000 = $5,000,000.
C. Memberships. Membership fees will provide start-up funds:
2010 100 new
members @ $2,000 average = $200,000
2011
200 new members @ $4,000 average = $800,000
2012
400 new members @ $5,000 average = $2,000,000
2013
280 new members @ $25,000 average = $7,000,000
D. Television rights. Little League (Baseball) World Series proved that international sports fans love to watch highly skilled children compete. We will offer broadcast rights to every television company around the world for a modest fee. We project an escalating income of several million dollars each year. For example, when children from a small nation compete with traditional soccer powers such as Brazil or Italy, we expect the audience to be almost world-wide.
There are a total of 32 income streams,
including tourist visitation fees, a percentage of royalties from the Academy’s
coaching and teaching staffs, etc.
1. Close to key nations in Europe,
Africa, western Asia and within a day’s journey of the rest of the world.
3. Great climate and a friendly,
peaceful population.
1. An economic impact of $30 million
per year plus a multiplier effect of at least 5, or $150 million per year.
3. Increase tourism by families eager
for their children to compete against “the best in the world.”