MP3 Players fund retreat for local teens

In March of 2010 a forward looking company, Continental Wind Power, Carpinteria, CA, gave 54 mp3 players to the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clara Valley. These players came with a request that Club teens use them as a vehicle to learn about the ways of business.

To accomplish this goal they were to develop a business plan and marketing plan, determining a target market and then conducting the sale. The teens did just that and have sold all 54 players. Sales were conducted at the Club during the once a month teen nights and at a table in front of the Santa Paula Longs Drug Store on weekends.

The donors suggested using the money earned to invest in more products to sell, thereby expanding the newly established business, or fund a party, or to use the money in any way the teens saw fit. As a result, total net earnings from these mp3 players were in excess of $200. The teens then collectively decided to use the money to fund a Character and Leadership Teen Retreat scheduled for this last weekend at a remote Camp Whittier in Santa Barbara County.

For many of these young people this was their first time away from home and familiar environs for the three day, two night retreat. And, with the retreat hosting 80 teens and their Club staff from five clubs in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties, certainly their first exposure to training on this scale.

Daily activities included workshops, a Ropes Course, hiking, nightly raffles, campfire roundups, dances, the opportunity to share common experiences and making new friends. This opportunity would not have been possible without the interest and action of the good people at Continental Wind Power, Inc.