Church Design & Construction's Role in the CCRC Industry

Over the years it has been demonstrated that seniors choose CCRC facilities sponsored by faith based organizations and other credible local non-profit organizations over for-profit business owned projects. Seniors take comfort and have a significantly higher trust level with faith based and non-profit sponsored projects knowing the mission driven nature of the services being offered. They also look for the spiritual care component of the community life provided by a faith based sponsor. Local churches, health care providers and non-profit social service organizations are part of the communities they serve. They have a natural market opportunity. Many have recognized the mission expansion and economic reasons to consider development of a local CCRC. However, they most often do not have the capital, development expertise or organizational capacity to develop such as project on their own.

Church Design & Construction will serve to assist local organizations to develop CCRCs by bringing to the local organization its own expertise in the industry that includes a development team capable of planning, financing and implementing such a project. Through its team of development and finance professionals, it will be able to bring the risk capital and project equity required to initiate the early stage project activities to determine the feasibility of proceeding forward. It is finding the means to carry out these risk capital funded activities, knowledge of how to finance CCRC projects and the ability to meet other project financing requirements that most often prevent otherwise good projects from being developed.

In exchange for providing the assistance outlined above, Church Design & Construction with the local church or non-profit organization will provide your church or organization with a share of the project profits as your revenue stream.

Local Church & Community Involvement

Church Design & Construction will initiate local church and community involvement in two primary ways.

The first way is through access to the numerous church relationships that exist among members of its development team. Church Design and Construction, Inc (CDC> and its marketing consultants have an extensive data base and first hand knowledge of churches throughout the United States that have both land for development and an interest in development of a CCRC on that property. As a marketing function, CDC will contact churches and establish partnering opportunities approved by CDC.

Another way is through real estate and CCRC development opportunities that are brought to CDC as a result of their connections in business sectors. In numerous circumstances, these organizations are introduced to situations where a CCRC development is feasible, but it is lacking a local faith based sponsor. In these instances, CDC will be introduced to such opportunity and be offered the sponsorship role.

In either circumstance, it will be the objective of CDC to structure the ownership of the local CCRC project such that, regardless of the "investment" of the local church or other local non-profit organization with which CDC is working, and to which CDC brings the requisite expertise and capital, that the local interests will receive a portion of the operating profits of the locally sponsored CCRC. In instances where a local church or non-profit organization provides the requisite land resources, the local profit share will be greater. By this distribution of operating profits to the local community, Bethel Point Foundation will be carrying out its charitable purpose.