Where Does The Money Go?

This post contains corrections and additions to the original text published in the Long Island Sound for Jesus, Jan 2009 edition.

What does the money we collect at Tres Dias get spent on?
Good question! Tres Dias could not exist without the support of pescadores like you who give so generously. You deserve to know where your money goes! Here is a breakdown of our annual expenses:

First, we pay for the Weekends. Recently we were asked, "What are our expenses for a Weekend, yearly?"

The cost of each set of Weekends (Men and Women make one set) goes beyond what the team and candidates pay directly to Montfort (currently $235/person, or $7,050 per team of 30, plus candidates' donations). The additional expenses of our Weekends are as follows:

Chiefs Money: Chief Aux and Chief Kitchen are given a total of $600 ($50 Aux, $100 Kitchen, per Weekend) to provide for items such as Communion needs, Thursday night and Sunday lunch tableware, beverages, break room needs, printing of address lists & 4th day packet items, Agape supplies. All purchases must be supported by receipts, and the leftover money goes back to the general treasury.

Bibles for the candidates $5-$6 ea.
Tres Dias Crosses for candidates $4.50 ea
Pilgrim's Guide $.80 ea
Closet Supplies $400- $500 per year (candles, tissues, matches, Rollo Room supplies: pencils, markers, poster paper, table covers, notebooks/paper/folders, tape, glue, chalk, helium, some balloons, ribbons, blank name tags, flashlights, batteries, etc.)

Spiritual Advisers (Montfort no longer waives their fee for Spiritual Advisers, however LITD continues to cover our own precious Spiritual Advisers): $1,880 per year
Candidate SCHOLARSHIPS for the Weekends $1,880 per year (2 men and 2 women per weekend)

GENERAL FUND: We also have other expenses, such as the yearly mailing of our newsletters and post cards $1000,00 per year
Secuela expenses:

DONATION TO HOST CHURCH ($50 per Secuela, if they accept it)

Secuela general supplies: coffee, tea, sweeteners, milk, paper goods

Printing of the newsletter $ 800 per year
International dues and support $ 240 per year

International Representative travel & lodging expenses to International Secretariat meetings held around the USA (varies, paid by reimbursement with receipt).
CCLI license $150 per year

As you can see the cost of a weekend can be up to $8-9,000 a year, depending on the number of candidates. That is why your palanca is so very important.

REMEMBER YOUR WEEKEND AND HOW YOU WERE IMPACTED.
WHAT A PRIVILEGE TO MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR SOMEONE ELSE.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROUS SUPPORT AND MAKING TRES DIAS POSSIBLE!

We want to encourage you to palanca part or all of the above items. You can send your donations marked PALANCA to the current Financial Secretary (please see the Secretariat list at http://www.litd.org/ for the current information). Please make all checks payable to Long Island Tres Dias.

Long Island Tres Dias is a non-profit organization, recognized as a 501(c)3 charity by the IRS.