Dues Issue - An International Perspective

[Bonni Graham]

These are great ideas - would you be willing to serve on the Board to 
help propose and implement them?

At 03:20 PM 9/26/2007, you wrote:
>It takes a critical thinking strategy that looks at the organization 
>from the outside-in. It cannot be driven by staff because staff is 
>to vested in the outcome. It means cutting programs and staff that 
>have little or no benefit for the members, retooling things that 
>work, and discarding things that are obsolete. The "but we've always 
>done it this way," mentality must be retired.
>
>If the price increases of the last several years were rolled-back, 
>would you have a pool of old members willing to rejoin?
>If the organization was actively marketed could membership rolls 
>swell with new blood?
>And, if new members join, will their expertise and ideas be used to 
>improve the organization? Or will they grow disillusioned by the old 
>guard who doesn't think change is a vital element of survival?
>
>Any organization that has lost 10,000 dues paying members is at a 
>dangerous tipping point.

Bonni Graham
Manual Labour Inc.
858-366-0170
www.manuallabour.com
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