ANST - New Question...

[jonwillowpel at juno.com]

For a shire or canton
 You should have enough people to fill all the offices and have spares in
the wings. That is about 10 to 15 people. If you are doing two events a
year you need autocrats for the events. To be the head autocrat you need
to be warranted and that means having a membership. That is another 2 to
3 people. A healthy group should have enough people that they don't have
to double up on jobs. To have good event that doesn't wear everyone out
you need all your officers in place plus autocrats. I would say you need
almost 20 working members. This is on top of your "retired" SCA member.
Some of  your "paid member" are the people who have put their time it and
now just watch. The amount goes up for a barony. I know this is more than
what the BOD ask for but you wanted to know how many for a Healthy group.

One of the things about people who are too poor to paid 35.00 dollars is
they often try to make up by working hard in their local area. Most of us
have a social conscience . We try to do our share. Remember when dealing
with volunteers you need not to confuse them. What is more important?
Someone paying 2 dollar extra at gate or someone working 4 hours at gate.
One of the binds volunteer organizations get their selves into is looking
too much like a market organization. Our sites fee are donations that
keep our local chapters going they aren't an admission ticket that covers
all the cost. We couldn't pay all the people that work at our events with
our site fees. We need to very clear that we need more help.  If we get
to caught up in this "paid" "not paid" we might lose a lot of good
workers

Willow


On Thu, 17 Feb 2000 16:02:28 PST "Lorraine and/or Kief"
<deer_kief at hotmail.com> writes:
> First I would like to say I mistyped...Cantons require 5 sustaining 
> members 
> not 3 as I typed...
> 
> 
> Since it takes a paid membership to become a officer, how many paid 
> members 
> do you think it takes to sustain a healthy group...(one that puts on 
> events, 
> travels, has more than just the same members trading off offices to 
> keep the 
> group alive, and is active on a local, regional and kingdom level 
> and is 
> able to revive itself from burnout) barony/shire/canton/college?????
> 
> Lorraine DeerSlayer
> 
> 
> 
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