On Wednesday, October 21, 2015 at 1:01:38 PM UTC-7, Sean Fidler wrote:
That is a bunch of crap.

What exactly does the SSA staff and officials do, if not growing the membership?

Anyone? List it please.

Hey Sean,

I looked it up. The SSA has a Growth and Retention Committee. Guess who appears on the list?

You!

http://www.ssa.org/GrowthDevelopment?show=11

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Here's how they describe how Development, Growth and Retention works.

"The mission of the Soaring Society of America is to Foster and Promote the Sport of Soaring. As a volunteer organization we rely in large part on our members to help fulfill this important task. Please take a moment to consider how you can help.

In this section you will find programs and resources to help grow the sport of Soaring. For more information contact the Growth and Retention Committee."

I'm not sure if the list is current, but presumably it was correct at one time. I'm sure people would be curious to know what your goals, objectives, key initiatives, metrics for success and progress against those metrics are/were.

List, please. ;-)

For other SSA priorities a stroll though the website gives you at least some sense for what it does. I'm not saying I think everything is perfect - far from it. I've heard the stories and some of the history is pretty bad. But it only gets better if people step up.

These are pretty challenging issues - unfortunately they won't get solved on r.a.s.

9B