[TheForge] ABANA

[Aaron Silver]

At 12:05 AM 7/6/2002 -0600, you wrote:


>Ralph wrote:
> > Well,
> > Speaking as an displeased reader. I much prefered the content of the Pub
> > when Mr McCarty was doing it. It seemed that he had more North American
> > smith content than currently. I am somewhat tired of Asian and European
> > smiths being showcased primarily.
> > We are after all ABANA which last time I looked meant NORTH AMERICA. I know
> > there are plenty of good talent here in teh US of A and Canada and Mexico.
> > Ralph
>
>PS: I think Jim did an excellent job on the Ring and am not sure why the
>board saw fit to fix something that was not broken.  Saving $25K is not
>necessarily an appropriate justification for an entity such as ABANA.
>It
>is a NON-PROFIT organization and should be run as such.  The $25
>reasoning
>has a flavor suspiciously reminiscent of that of a for-profit board
>room,
>and if by any wild chance the board slowly begins adopting for-profit
>motivations and strategies to this entity, ABANA will come to perdition.

Um... I'm gonna disagree with the above because I can't see any instance 
where saving $25K for the same quality product is NOT the right move. 
Whether this is a for-profit or a not-for-profit, the demands for your 
money are always coming in, and your pool of income is limited (whether 
from grants, gifts/donations and dues, or by sales, loans and stock sales). 
Therefore any money you can save in one area without cutting quality & 
service can be used in another area to provide other or improved services. 
(Or maybe even improving the first area by keeping the $25K in the budget 
but demanding a better result)



Aaron