jo schmoo

what our Milwaukee club every year is hold a public workshop open to anybody. we get members from the Masters class to volunteer and teach. everyone gets to work on a tree, and the member to public ratio was about 1:2.5 so the learning experience is enhanced. the people who volunteer get what we call a "Buddy Buck" that gives them a discount on their meal at the December Holiday Party (they also get these "Buddy Bucks" for volunteering at other events like the Asian Moon Festival and State Fair). it gets people from the community to get interested, and it rewards the members who volunteer.

another thing we do is we tax the vendors 5% or so on anything they sell to help the club. at our first white elephant auction this year they charged 7% or something like that to help the club, the member who donated the item got the rest, and, it being the first auction, we surprisingly had at least 150 items to be auctioned off.

i know Ron Fortmann is a member of your club as well as mine, maybe talk to him about what else, if anything, you could do.

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