I want to add that there has been a bit of a decline in donations lately. If more people could donate that would be awesome, it doesn't have to be monthly. (And you don't have to be a member)
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Jeremy Hiebert <jkhieb...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am going to try to halt where this line of emails/thinking usually takes > us. > > First off, SkullSpace is doing fine. It is time that our members get > comfortable with the idea that this non-profit of ours is not going to be > self-sustaining through memberships. That shouldn't scare anyone though. > > Up until now, we were usually running ~$200 short based on memberships > alone. I can't find a month in the last year where we did not *easily* make > up for that in donations and food/drink sales. The rent is increasing in > January so there will be more of a gap to bridge. > > SkullSpace hosts events that bring in a decent amount of money. Think of > the social, PegJam (if that is what it was called), user group meetings. > Once we have our OP we will definitely see an increase in attendees at > hackathons, plus earn a decent profit on drink sales. What better way to > attract IT than booze? > > Really, all I am getting at is people need to stop thinking about just > getting enough members to sustain. That hasn't happened. We basically > plateaued as far as membership numbers go. Quite a few hackerspaces > operate like this, relying on donations to stay in operation. > > > On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:42 PM, <cstann...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> From those numbers we're losing $400-500 per month - I assume food >> purchases and members giving above their dues helps that a little bit - but >> we're still at the "need 10 new full members to survive in a year" stage? >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ian Trump <itr...@octopitech.com> >> Sender: discuss-bounces@lists.skullspace.caDate: Mon, 23 Dec 2013 >> 18:12:12 >> To: <discuss@lists.skullspace.ca><discuss@lists.skullspace.ca> >> Reply-To: discuss@lists.skullspace.ca >> Cc: ad...@skullspace.ca<ad...@skullspace.ca> >> Subject: [SkullSpace-Discuss] Financial Update/ Financial Forecast >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List >> Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss >> Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > SkullSpace Discuss Mailing List > Help: http://www.skullspace.ca/wiki/index.php/Mailing_List#Discuss > Archive: https://groups.google.com/group/skullspace-discuss-archive/ >
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