Goals for 2014

This year some of our goals for the aquarium are to:

~Get our Tax Exempt number and write grants for funds.

~Raise the funds to start building the aquarium.

~Build and sell tanks to be housed in temporary places until the aquarium is open.

~Settle on a location and finish the process of securing it.

~Finish revising our Business Plan.

~Finish our new and official website.

Here are the ways we want to accomplish each goal:

~Getting our Tax Exempt number is just a matter of waiting for the IRS to send us back our information. We have applied and sent it in so it is only a matter of time. We were told to expect it this month. Hopefully we get it and can start getting lots of grants and really get the aquarium going! 

~To raise funds, besides writing grants when we can, we will be doing fundraisers, letting our wonderful fans adopt fish that will be in our aquarium and accepting donations. As well as selling tanks to businesses.

~We want to start construction on our tanks. We want to make several 175 gallon tanks and sell them to businesses to keep in their buildings. This will help us advertise, help businesses get more customers, and when the aquarium is almost ready we will take the tanks back and have engraved rocks in those tanks stating who had bought them and therefore giving advertising to that company. It can be used as a tax write off for those businesses stating they donated the tank to us. Here are the details:

          ~175 gallons

          ~6 feet long

          ~Includes fish and decor

          ~Filters

          ~Engraved rock with Business's name

          ~Stand

          ~FREE maintenance! (This would normally cost $200+ a month) 

Please contact us on Facebook or through this blogs email if you or someone you know is interested.

~We have a location in mind and have been in contact with the owners. We are, however, still open to other suggestion and locations. And we are, of course, willing to look into a building that someone would want to donate to us for the location of our aquarium. The building we are looking at will be more of a start up building and we would want to upgrade to a bigger and more permanent building sometime in the future. 

~We are in the process of revising our Business Plan. We have to make a few changes and make sure we have everything covered and taken care of. If anyone knows how to write business plans and would be willing to help us out we would gladly accept help. 

~We also have someone working on our official website! We are hoping we can get it done and up and running in the next few months. It is going to be awesome and we are super excited for everyone to see it! 

So that is our update on our goals and plans for this year. I will continue to update you guys on what is happening as we complete goals and have more come up. Keep looking for updates as the year goes on!