<CORSA Chapters> Member participation

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Bruce,


I've planned a few road trips this year. In the past the "event chair" would try to find a day that everyone could go. That day never happened, so we didn't do anything. I changed to the "we're going on this day and hope you can join us" tact. Finding a good Corvair road in Kansas is a bit challenging. Good food and an interesting destination always helps.


Ned



-----Original Message-----
From: Bruce Schug <bwschug at att.net>
To: aeroned <aeroned at aol.com>
Cc: CORSA Chapters <chapters at corvair.org>
Sent: Wed, May 27, 2015 4:26 pm
Subject: Re: <CORSA Chapters> Member participation


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:
> 
> 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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> 



Bruce

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