<CORSA Chapters> Member participation

[J. R. Read]

Ned,

CCE has around 190 memberships.  Some are single and some are family.  My 
guess is that around 30% are single.  Also included in the 190 are about a 
dozen "honorary" (free) memberships.  These are folks who contributed 
greatly to the founding and growth of the club in the early years.  Many of 
them are now living several states away, but every so often one of them will 
show up at a meeting.

We meet at a VFW hall - so we are renting the space.  Attendance varies at 
meetings, but I don't think I've seen less than 30 there even when the 
weather is bad.  Most meetings have a theme attached such as parts auction, 
beauty (car) contest, sweets auction, movie night, what is it contest, chili 
cook off, member appreciation (free pizza), and others that don't come to 
mind at the moment.  We pretty much fill the room on these "special" nights. 
I would say 60 to 70 folks present for those.  An average attendance is 
probably around 50 to 60 over a years time.

We regularly have attendees from both Wisconsin and Indiana.  Some of our 
members are also members of other Corvair local clubs.

We do several driving functions outside of the regular meeting dates.  There 
is a Spring and Fall tour, a parade, car judging for another car club, and 
more.  The parade and judging events are fund raisers for us.  We also do an 
Orphan Car Picnic which generates club revenue - however that is coming to 
an end with this year's event in August.

Later, JR
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ned Madsen via Chapters" <chapters at corvair.org>
To: <chapters at corvair.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 27, 2015 1:01 PM
Subject: <CORSA Chapters> Member participation


>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.
>
>
> 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?
>
>
> Inquiring minds want to know,
> Ned
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