[NJARC] Your Help Needed in October

[Harry Klancer]

Scott,

Interesting question, but way above my pay grade.

If InfoAge nets more money this year, I guess they'll call it successful.
If they don't, then they'll probably come back to us and the other member
organizations next year and ask us to run it as in the past. The jury 
will be
out until they count the net $$.

Meanwhile, I think the club has a nice museum. Do you like it? What 
should we
do to improve it? [that's another thread].

We would like to promote the museum and the club. One good way is to get 
visitors
to come through it - and the best time is when there are a lot of people 
around,
because history tells us that some of them will be interested and some 
others will
tell their friends who may be interested.

You already said you can't volunteer. OK. But the museum still needs
volunteers. Friday and Saturday evenings in October
(and of course,  we always need volunteers on the regular Sunday
afternoon openings year round).

Thanks.

                       Harry K

On 9/8/2011 4:06 PM, Scott Roberts wrote:
> Why is this now being handled by a "Professional Organization"? I 
> consider hiring ANY "Professional Organization" a waste of money when 
> it is used for a fundraiser! You have to expend funds to the 
> "Professional Organization" just for the things volunteers usually do. 
> I realize volunteers are thin a lot of the time,  but that is part of 
> the club(s) process. Hiring a "Professional Organization" to host 
> something we used to do ourselves is about as smart as the government 
> contracting out all the stuff GIs used to do in the military- 
> wasteful, and ridiculous, and you get LESS for your money.
>
> I say this as a member, but not usually a volunteer for financial 
> reasons- I am usually working at the necessary times or too broke to 
> make the trip up to Info Age, but I still feel it is irresponsible to 
> hire some for profit company to do the job. If we don't have enough 
> volunteers, then find something that will bring more out, and 
> fund-raise differently.
>
> Scott
>
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> *From:* Harry Klancer <klancer2 at comcast.net>
> *To:* New Jersey Antique Radio Club <njarc at mailman.qth.net>
> *Sent:* Thursday, September 8, 2011 11:13 AM
> *Subject:* [NJARC] Your Help Needed in October
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> _________________________________________________________
> As most of you know, NJARC and our Radio Technology
> Museum is a major player at InfoAge.
>
> InfoAge's biggest fundraiser of the year is the Haunted
> Hotel (renamed the Halloween "Base of Terror") which is
> held on Friday and Saturday evenings during October.
>
> Unlike in past years, NJARC and the other InfoAge member
> organizations are not running the event, which is being
> handled by a professional organization. HOWEVER, we have
> been asked to have our museums open for visitors on the
> appropriate evenings - specifically the following Fridays
> and Saturdays from 7 pm to 11pm:
>
> October 7 and October 8
> October 14 and October 15
> October 21 and October 22
> October 28 and October 29
>
> Bottom line:  NJARC needs your help in staffing (and
> protecting) our museum on those evenings. Please
> contact me or Ray Chase if you are willing to help
> the club on ANY of those dates. Once, twice or
> whatever. Thanks.
>
>                                       Harry K
>
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