<VV> CORSA/Chapter Membership

[Bill Elliott]

This is the way several of the national car clubs I belong to are 
structured. While it definitely has some disadvantages (e.g. you invariably 
end up with more direct national control over local clubs and local club 
initiatives can be difficult to fund) none of those clubs have the sort of 
national/local membership issues that we have.

One similar model... one club that I no longer belong to allows the local 
clubs to "set" their portion of the national membership... so that it was 
broken out by a separate line item that was geographically ordained. While 
this indeed gave the local club more independence, it also increased dissent 
among members who would have preferred to be able to feely choose which 
"local" club they preferred (i.e.. the one with the lowest "portion")... the 
national organization felt that would set up a financially unhealthy 
competition between local clubs and didn't allow it.

Bill


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Hubbell" <whubbell at umich.edu>
To: "Virtual Vairs" <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; "CORSA/CPF BoD" 
<corsabod at corvair.org>
Sent: Monday, March 15, 2010 09:03
Subject: <VV> CORSA/Chapter Membership


> Perhaps we have been looking at this the wrong way. Suppose instead of 
> requiring CORSA membership to belong to a Chapter we simply INCLUDED 
> membership in any one CORSA chapter with CORSA membership?
> In other words, CORSA would charge a single dues fee which would entitle 
> the member to select membership in any one CORSA chapter at NO ADDITIONAL 
> COST.  The member would not be required to join a chapter but it would be 
> an included benefit of CORSA, so it would encourage members to participate 
> in chapter activities as well
>
> Note: a person could opt to join multiple chapters, as always, but the 
> member would be responsible for paying the dues of any more than the first 
> chapter.
>
> Some arrangement would have to. be made between CORSA and the chapters to 
> account for the "free" chapter membership, but assuming this can be worked 
> out, would anybody find this objectionable?
>
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