[Chapter-delegates] How many members do we have?

[Brandt Dainow]

I think Alan makes a good point about long-term funding.  To my knowledge, chapters can’t get funding for programs longer than 2 years, and most are single-grant programs.  Perhaps we should be considering 5- year and 10- year funding initiatives, especially for anything involving government policy, which can take years to shift.

 

Regards,

Brandt Dainow

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From: Alan Levin [mailto:alan at vanilla.co.za] 
Sent: 12 December 2018 12:54
To: Brandt Dainow
Cc: Chapter Delegates
Subject: Re: [Chapter-delegates] How many members do we have?

 

Hi Brandt,

 

On Wed, Dec 12, 2018 at 2:45 PM Brandt Dainow <brandt.dainow at gmail.com> wrote:

Absent a serious and global push for fundamental changes in ISOC structure, I therefore recommend chapters focus on getting better membership themselves, and not look to the central organisation.

 

100% agreed.... !

 

We have well over 1000 members that receive emails and ack. On the other hand "active" members are few and far between.... 

 

We're also concerned about "active" members that are looking only for ISOC global handouts... grants and fellowships, I think those should go to the folk that actually assist chapters. We need help with local policy issues but the ISOC grants programmes redirect members to the global policy making activities and the likes. I have yet to see "community grants" for projects that that have long term sustainability. 

 

Sincerely

 

Alan

 

 

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