Dues Issue - An International Perspective

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 I am pretty busy running my company. We have a new product roll-out just now taking place.

It might actually work better if the relationship is as an outside consultant. It has been my experience that organizations value what they pay for, and discount their volunteer input.

The work would require a lot of research and tabulation, reporting the findings to the board and membership, and instituting a workable change plan.

This might actually be something that a student volunteer group can implement with some oversight.


 


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From: Bonni Graham <bgraham at manuallabour.com>
To: stc-ac <stc-ac at lists.stc.org>
Sent: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 3:49 pm
Subject: [stc-ac] Re: Dues Issue - An International Perspective











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.

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