"Cecil Moore" wrote ...
KC4UAI wrote:
I really don't think the intent was to offend anybody, only to provide
a means of raising money for the ARRL.

Isn't the ARRL supposed to be non-profit?

"Non profit" doesn't mean "zero-budget" or
"no-income" or "can't raise money by selling
bricks". Does it?

Richard Crowley wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote ...
Isn't the ARRL supposed to be non-profit?

"Non profit" doesn't mean "zero-budget" or
"no-income" or "can't raise money by selling
bricks". Does it?

Did you answer a question with another question? :-)
--
73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com

"Cecil Moore" wrote in ...
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote ...
Isn't the ARRL supposed to be non-profit?

"Non profit" doesn't mean "zero-budget" or
"no-income" or "can't raise money by selling
bricks". Does it?

Did you answer a question with another question? :-)

OK, remove the last sentence and try it as a
declarative statement. :-)

Cecil Moore wrote:
Richard Crowley wrote:
"Cecil Moore" wrote ...
Isn't the ARRL supposed to be non-profit?

"Non profit" doesn't mean "zero-budget" or
"no-income" or "can't raise money by selling
bricks". Does it?

Did you answer a question with another question? :-)

Non-Profit institutions raise money in many ways. Bake sales, hoagie
sales, donate a vehicle and have it auctioned off with the proceeds
going to the nonprofit. Volunteer Fire companies do it a lot, so do many
other non-profits. It's actually a pretty good thing.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -

Michael Coslo wrote:

Non-Profit institutions raise money in many ways. Bake sales, hoagie
sales, donate a vehicle and have it auctioned off with the proceeds
going to the nonprofit. Volunteer Fire companies do it a lot, so do many
other non-profits. It's actually a pretty good thing.


Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues
income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort
to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is
gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction.

| Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues
|income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort
|to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is
|gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction.
|

Or greedy or just plain too fat with paid employees for it's own good.

In article ,
Steven Stone wrote:

| Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues
|income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort
|to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is
|gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction.
|

Or greedy or just plain too fat with paid employees for it's own good.

Or innovative and beginning new programs which require funding....

Klystron wrote:

Once upon a time, the ARRL was able to pay its bills with dues
income, magazine sales and book sales. The fact that is must now resort
to such "creative" fundraising simply underlines the fact that it is
gradually but inexorably moving toward extinction.

That is a possible conclusion, but I'm not reading it that way.



As an example of a similar experience, when our club needed to raise
money for a new repeater, it was something outside of regular dues, as
well as being expensive and a pretty good way of emptying the treasury.

So we had a special fund raising project. People were asked to donate
money to the repeater fund. Those who donated something like 100 dollars
or more were given a coffee mug with a nice club logo on it. We got a
new repeater.

The really interesting thing is that the repeater was open to all, even
those who didn't contribute a penny to it, or thought it was a bad idea
that the club should own a repeater, or that the old repeater that took
so much maintenance - not by them of course - was still usable.

- 73 de Mike KB3EIA -