Thank you Jeremy. You described the situation very well. I will definitely try to get more events happening to gain more donations that way, if that is what the space needs!
On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Courtney Lofchick <court...@lofchick.com>wrote: > 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/ >> > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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