Xref: utzoo comp.org.ieee:413 comp.misc:10311
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!suned1!zaft
From: zaft@nswses.navy.mil (Gordon C Zaft)
Newsgroups: comp.org.ieee,comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is ACM broke?
Summary: No.
Keywords: ACM, renewal
Message-ID: <5597@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL>
Date: 8 Oct 90 21:44:13 GMT
References: <1990Oct7.205143.27609@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
Sender: efb@suned1.Nswses.Navy.MIL
Distribution: usa
Organization: NSWSES, Port Hueneme, CA
Lines: 38

In article <1990Oct7.205143.27609@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> newman@frith.msu.edu (Tim Newman) writes:
>
>I just got my ACM membership renewal form and noticed they have
>decided that all us members will be making a donation for a
>TV program they are co-sponsoring.
>
>This strikes me as a desperate measure to raise cash, so I would
>like to find out why the ACM has resorted to it.  The only 
>explanation I can think of is that they volunteered to support
>the program without really having the financial resources to
>do so.
>
>I don't understand why they didn't make a special appeal to
>their members for donations (either in a separate mailing or via a
>second form with a check-off box included in the membership renewal
>materials) instead of this desperate attempt to add a surtax on the 
>annual dues.
>
>Also, should we expect this sort of behavior to become a yearly
>event for the ACM?

	I don't think it's a desperate measure.  A separate mailing
would cost too much money.  I think ACM decided the "Computer Chronicles"
(I *think* that's what it is) was a worthwhile thing to get involved
with and that since it was a 'special' sort of event that it should
have 'special' funding mechanisms.  I don't think this will be a yearly
event w/ACM, although I presume you've noticed there's always a 'suggested
donation' tacked on the bottom line, though it is (of course) optional.

Gordon Zaft
Ventura County ACM Chairman.


--
+  Gordon Zaft                        |  zaft@suned1.nswses.navy.mil         +
+  NSWSES, Code 4Y33                  |  suned1!zaft@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov      +
+  Port Hueneme, CA 93043-5007        |  Phone: (805) 982-0684 FAX: 982-8768 +
                  ++++ Ubi caritas et amor, Deus ibi est.++++