The highly successful UK Junior XC program vs. USA's nonexistantJunior XC program. Why?

That is a bunch of crap.

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

Anyone? List it please.

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

Andy,

It's been over a year? since an email has gone out from this growth and dev "committee." Maybe more. Not very active from my perspective. When we last had a meeting, I offered to run an SSA booth (4 days) at North Americas largest RC aircraft convention. We tried to sell FAST packages similar to Sun and Fun and Oshkosh. Commendable efforts by all the volunteers at these events. All three were hard to measure but likely slight financial failures, unfortunately.

Then there was the Cloud Street marketing effort. File that one next to let's go gliding?

See my post above. I'm busy with other "projects" now. Happy to help if it gets rolling again.

This junior (and adult) cross country soaring skills challenge should not be in a side committee. We are a nation of pattern clubs giving rides, or giving themselves "rides."

This challenge of cross country skills development (Jr. and adult and clubs) should be front and center with the Charimen and all BOD and officers "hands on deck." Should it not?

If not, what are their top 10 priorities?

Sean
7T

On Wednesday, 21 October 2015 14:01:38 UTC-6, 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.

If you are truly interested in what is and has happened you should review documents that were prepared for September 2015 BOD meeting at http://www.ssa.org/Bluebooks