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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=janefalada@hotmail.com href="mailto:janefalada@hotmail.com">Leslie
Luther-Fulton</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=announcements@sca.org
href="mailto:announcements@sca.org">sca Announcements</A> </DIV>
<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, February 17, 2010 9:56 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Ansteorra-announce] [Announcements] SCA Financial
Announcement</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Financial Announcement:<BR><BR>As we reported last year, our
organization is still suffering some of the effects of the recent economic down
turn. Please take a moment to review the 2010 SCA, Inc. budget have posted at <A
href="http://www.sca.org/">http://www.sca.org/</A>.<BR><BR>As you can see, the
SCA is forecasting, roughly, to break-even for this budget cycle (2010). At this
time, this is only a forecast, and will be monitored and modified as the year
progresses.<BR><BR>For the year ending 2009, we project a net income of
$31,174.64. Please bear in mind that all 2009 financial data has not been
processed, so this remains a projection. This is a substantial turn-around from
our 2008 loss<BR>of over $180,000. The corporate staff and directors worked
diligently throughout the year to review and reduce all expenses, and eliminated
anything not deemed “mission critical”. The directors would like to<BR>recognize
and commend the outstanding efforts by the VP for Corporate Operations, Renee
Signorotti, and the Corporate Treasurer, Mazelle Attiya. These two individuals
worked tirelessly to control costs. They have our<BR>great
thanks.<BR> <BR>Moving forward into 2010, we will continue to work to
minimize costs, and to provide value for our members.<BR> <BR>It must be
noted first and foremost- the projected break-even budget for 2010 is based on
one critical change; membership rates will be increase by $2, effective July 1,
2010. This will be matched with a $2 increase in the NMS. We in no way want to
discourage new participants from “trying us out”, however, the Board feels
strongly that participating non members should also contribute to the
organization. <BR><BR>In addition, this $2 increase will be reviewed in the
following budget cycle (2011). The potential exists for additional incremental
changes in the coming years, based on future increases in organizational
operating<BR>costs. We have listened carefully to the comments of our
membership. We believe that a smaller, regulated and controlled incremental
increase is superior to one large increase.<BR><BR>We continue to review
additional sources of funding with respect to the grants committee, and we are
exploring alternative revenue sources.<BR><BR>The budget for 2010 continues the
cost cutting measures noted below.<BR><BR>1. The elimination of one quarterly
in-person meetings of the Board of Directors, the July meeting, which will be
replaced by a conference call. Please note: The directors remain committed to
outreach to the membership.<BR>The elimination of this meeting was a difficult
choice as the directors and corporate staff is committed to public meetings,
traveling across the Known World in order to meet the members and gain input
from them.<BR><BR>2. The introduction of the online waivers, which will reduce
postage and paper costs. We will continue to explore the potential expansion of
the online interface to include changes in publication subscriptions.
(ie:<BR>being able to add subscriptions on-line)<BR><BR>Looking forward, we see
the potential for continued financial distress for the Society. In light of the
2008 loss and continued “close to the bone” financial situation, the directors
and corporate staff continue to work<BR>through a variance analysis and
budgetary options. Moving forward, we will proceed with our efforts to examine a
variety of options to reduce costs, and increase our revenue. Please take a
moment to review the list of ideas below and send us your comments and ideas. We
understand that some of the options will be unpopular in areas of the Society.
This should not be considered a complete list of all options, nor should any of
these items be considered as a “done deal”. While we have no wish to unduly
change the spirit of our shared activity, we feel strongly that at this time all
options must be placed on the table, examined and<BR>reviewed.<BR> <BR>1.
Continued development of a grant program, specifically target at supporting our
publications and A&S activities.<BR><BR>2. Offering Tournaments Illuminated
and The Compleat Anachronist subscriptions to non members, libraries, schools,
and others.<BR> <BR>3. Raising the rate for these publications to our
members.<BR><BR>4. Adding new tiers of member sponsorship such as a Donor or
Sponsor level.<BR><BR>5. Examining different membership participation options,
with a short term “event pass” for new participants.<BR> <BR>6. Increase
our ability to fund some internal operations from sales of SCA related
merchandise. (Via Cafe Press or other, similar sites. Individual kingdoms
currently have gone in this direction. We are not looking to<BR>curtail kingdom
activity.)<BR><BR>7. Raising membership rates. As mentioned we will review
additional incremental increases to align expenses and revenues.<BR><BR>8. Fees
for paperwork processing.<BR><BR><BR>As ever, the Board of Directors and
corporate staff relies on your input and ideas.<BR><BR>Send your comments to;
comments@sca.org. Please recall that this is a comment only address. All
Directors all see the email from this comments address, however we do not offer
individual responses.<BR><BR>Thank you for your time and review of this
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