Budapest Back to the category of “new tricks for old dogs,” before I forget I wanted to share a method the French organizers used in order to try to resolve difficult decisions and see if they could achieve consensus before abandoning all hope. We were meeting on the board of ReAct, the transnational organization partnered …
Category: ACORN International
Nothing Like A Dues Standards Debate
Paris There was a “sustainability” workshop where we discussed at length how to achieve the Alliance’s goals of achieving self-sufficiency with half of their income coming from membership dues. The dues “gap” was about 3000 euros, so there was a way to go on that one, but in the first workshop we spent a lot …
French Organizers Try to Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
Paris The first ever meeting of ACORN related organizers in Europe is at the midway point and continues to produce real work and encouraging plans and programs for the future. For many of you that’s just blah, blah, blah, good luck and who cares, so let me share a couple of tricks our French organization …