<CORSA Chapters> Member participation

[Bruce Schug]

Ned,

Our participation varies widely.

We have 49 “members” on the Roster. Most are couples, a few with children, so this represents, perhaps, 90 people. Some  - probably 24 of those - are out-of-state, in declining health or a distance away. Looking over the roster, I’d say we have 63 who attend something every year (70%).

We have monthly Dinner Meetings, the second Tuesday of the month. Attendance varies from about 15 - 30; usually around 24 (17% - 34% - usually 27%).

On weekends, we have Events - a rally, picnic, road trip, Christmas Party, etc. We probably have 12 - 65 people at these (13% - 72%). Our Christmas Party and Picnic are up around 60-65 (67-72%). A Tech Session might be 8 - 15 (9% - 17%) - in a guy’s garage. Usually the women come to the Tech Sessions and visit. Some times it’s just the guys.

Over the years, I’ve found that the easiest-to-do Events that are a good draw are simple driving events. Meet somewhere, caravan on back roads, perhaps to see something - a park, waterfall, museum, or just nice scenery, etc., then stop at a restaurant and eat. Everyone likes to drive and eat.



> On May 27, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Ned Madsen via Chapters <chapters at corvair.org> wrote:
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> I was just wondering about club participation in other chapters. Here in Wichita we have about 30 dues paying members. Some of these folks, I've never seen in my 15+ years in the club. We regularly get about 10 members at monthly meetings. We might get that many to participate in a road trip event. We only get about 5 or less to go to near by events outside our club. It doesn't sound like much, until you look at the percentage.
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> I'm wondering how other clubs do? Do you get 30% of your members to show up at meetings or events? Is 17% a big number to travel to other events?
> Do we have a problem or are we just a small club?
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> Inquiring minds want to know,
> Ned
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Bruce

Bruce W. Schug
Membership Chair, 
CORSA South Carolina
CORSA member since 1980
'67 Monza, "67AC140"
bwschug at att.net