magimerlin
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OK I am a little disappointed here. So this may be long winded. I know times are rough, money is a little short. But.......
We as a chapter CAN NOT grow with out your help. You want the chapter to be able to do things together, well that cost money. And we have almost none. Yes we made some at ROM that everyone was so excited about but then no one but a few showed up for. I am not starting a "OH ITS TO FAR AWAY" thread here either ALL of those posts will and shall be deleted and or edited.
Ok then to business. The past RRC event swag sale thread http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1061803 has been up for a while and has had about 200 looks. NO ONE has bought anything. Why is that? I am just curious here I am not trying to chastise any one here. You go out and buy a shirt at say Wal-Mart for 20.00 and not think a darn thing about it. Are shirts are less then that even with the shipping. I just marked them down again to by the way. Stickers are now at 1.50 shipped also. Even if you didn'y make it to ROM 2010 or 2011 feel free to buy some stuff we are not going to say anything about showing off the shirts and stickers if you couldn't make it. The money only helps support us, the RRC, which includes you.
What do we need to do to get YOU to participate and help to keep this chapter financially stable. ANY money we use does NOT come from nationals, did you know that. We have not even enough money to open an NFP(not for profit) bank account that doesn't charge us any fees. Do you know that that ONLY requires a maintained 250.00 balance. Guess what we do not even have that right know.
Yes we are one, if not the biggest geographical chapter. Can that be an issue? YES and I understand that. That does not stop us from getting together with the members (paying or not) in our areas. We have some areas around the larger cities that have an abundance of members and we have areas in which there are few members. We have areas with more younger members and areas with older members. And I understand that sometimes our ways of thinking do not coincide to each others thought processes. But all in all we have a large group of diverse individuals that can and are able to come together when the need arises. As large as we are and as many members, again paying or not, I feel that we really shouldn't have this monetary issues.
Do you realize that EVERY bit of money that was used to get ROM going this year was outta pocket of our President.(political comments will be deleted from here as is not the place) I have all the recipts for that and at the end of ROM we as a chapter had to pay him back, which I made sure we did. He then gave some of it back too the chapter as a donation to help it out.
Do you realize that if everyone in the chapter donated as little as even $2.00 that we would have over 200.00 just from that. You can probably fine 2.00 in your seat cushions of your favorite chair or sofa or in your Jeeps center console or ash tray. Our paypal addy is [email protected] just in case you are wondering. We as a chapter do not ask for any member dues. The dues that you pay each year if a paying member goes to nationals. We as a chapter never see that money, did you know that? So we as a chapter rely on you, the members, for support. Through attendance at the events, buying raffle tickets, event swag, etc, is where we get our money from.
SO...my question to ALL of YOU is...................
What can we do to help you become more active?
Do you have any ideas that may help our situation?
Money raising events(keep in mind here that atleast 1 of the BoD has to be in attendance for it to be an actual "sponsored" event)
What are your ideas to help us grow as a group and a chapter?
How can we better promote ourselves in a non intrusive way. (not sure about y'all but I hate putting flyers on vehicles as some people can get down right aggressive seeing you touch there vehicles)
Please feel free to give me YOUR thoughts on the matter. I am not looking for the soapbox answered here either. I want truthful thoughts here but please try to be civil in your answers and suggestions. We are not trying to upset anyone here. And no suggestion to me is dumb as long as you are trying to help.
Thank you for your time reading this
Jay Furness RRC Treasurer
P.S.--- sorry, told you at the start I might get a little long winded lol
We as a chapter CAN NOT grow with out your help. You want the chapter to be able to do things together, well that cost money. And we have almost none. Yes we made some at ROM that everyone was so excited about but then no one but a few showed up for. I am not starting a "OH ITS TO FAR AWAY" thread here either ALL of those posts will and shall be deleted and or edited.
Ok then to business. The past RRC event swag sale thread http://www.naxja.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1061803 has been up for a while and has had about 200 looks. NO ONE has bought anything. Why is that? I am just curious here I am not trying to chastise any one here. You go out and buy a shirt at say Wal-Mart for 20.00 and not think a darn thing about it. Are shirts are less then that even with the shipping. I just marked them down again to by the way. Stickers are now at 1.50 shipped also. Even if you didn'y make it to ROM 2010 or 2011 feel free to buy some stuff we are not going to say anything about showing off the shirts and stickers if you couldn't make it. The money only helps support us, the RRC, which includes you.
What do we need to do to get YOU to participate and help to keep this chapter financially stable. ANY money we use does NOT come from nationals, did you know that. We have not even enough money to open an NFP(not for profit) bank account that doesn't charge us any fees. Do you know that that ONLY requires a maintained 250.00 balance. Guess what we do not even have that right know.
Yes we are one, if not the biggest geographical chapter. Can that be an issue? YES and I understand that. That does not stop us from getting together with the members (paying or not) in our areas. We have some areas around the larger cities that have an abundance of members and we have areas in which there are few members. We have areas with more younger members and areas with older members. And I understand that sometimes our ways of thinking do not coincide to each others thought processes. But all in all we have a large group of diverse individuals that can and are able to come together when the need arises. As large as we are and as many members, again paying or not, I feel that we really shouldn't have this monetary issues.
Do you realize that EVERY bit of money that was used to get ROM going this year was outta pocket of our President.(political comments will be deleted from here as is not the place) I have all the recipts for that and at the end of ROM we as a chapter had to pay him back, which I made sure we did. He then gave some of it back too the chapter as a donation to help it out.
Do you realize that if everyone in the chapter donated as little as even $2.00 that we would have over 200.00 just from that. You can probably fine 2.00 in your seat cushions of your favorite chair or sofa or in your Jeeps center console or ash tray. Our paypal addy is [email protected] just in case you are wondering. We as a chapter do not ask for any member dues. The dues that you pay each year if a paying member goes to nationals. We as a chapter never see that money, did you know that? So we as a chapter rely on you, the members, for support. Through attendance at the events, buying raffle tickets, event swag, etc, is where we get our money from.
SO...my question to ALL of YOU is...................
What can we do to help you become more active?
Do you have any ideas that may help our situation?
Money raising events(keep in mind here that atleast 1 of the BoD has to be in attendance for it to be an actual "sponsored" event)
What are your ideas to help us grow as a group and a chapter?
How can we better promote ourselves in a non intrusive way. (not sure about y'all but I hate putting flyers on vehicles as some people can get down right aggressive seeing you touch there vehicles)
Please feel free to give me YOUR thoughts on the matter. I am not looking for the soapbox answered here either. I want truthful thoughts here but please try to be civil in your answers and suggestions. We are not trying to upset anyone here. And no suggestion to me is dumb as long as you are trying to help.
Thank you for your time reading this
Jay Furness RRC Treasurer
P.S.--- sorry, told you at the start I might get a little long winded lol
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representative.
I really do hope to see your chapter grow and get more involved with wheeling, and no I dont mean every weekend, or in mud. Really just letting by gones be by gones
