On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Ski Kacoroski <[email protected]> wrote:
> > * For a non-profit to be successful, it needs sponsorships and vendor > support to provide benefits to its members. LOPSA started with with many > sponsors, but I feel that due to the legal action, LOPSA lost its > sponsors. This has also hurt its ability to grow. > > My belief is that LOPSA didn't lose sponsors due to the legal stuff. Sponsors leave when they're not seeing a return-on-investment. Early on when an org is new sponsors are eager to get into the ground floor of something that looks promising. But if the number of available customers, and, especially, if the economy tanks and companies are less likely to spend money, sponsors are going to find their ROI low enough to stop. Now that the economy is rebounding, this is the time for LOPSA to be finding more sponsors. > * There are several kinds of non-profits. 501c6 are professional > non-profits and 501c3's are educational non-profits. For some reason, > LOPSA is incorporated as a 501c3 non-profit [3]. I know this has caused at > least 2 board members to resign when they realized that LOPSA, in the eyes > of the government, is an educational, not a professional organization. > > So reclassify. This is not a difficult thing, though it can be time consuming. > * Finally, LOPSA has had a hard time finding volunteers. Oh, I'm not even going there. m.
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