Keep

Opportunities to develop communities of like-minded folks, in particular like-minded in the sense of energy and commitment to the mission (which is, perhaps a characteristic of branch boards and higher levels of the organization rather than branches in general who have a different “take” on “like-minded”).

Discard

Electing the national board (except, perhaps, for a couple of tokens). That is madness.

Change

How we decide who gets what messages — the Association has little real nead for the list of officers (other than to provide the lists back to the branches/states) but they *do* need to know who wants to hear about what kind of information (e.g. programming ideas, communications key messages, membership ideas). The interest in these messages is a characteristic of the individual (and should appear on the individual’s record not on the organization’s record) with support for many people getting the same message. [It’d also be a way to tally votes on who’s interested in what.]

How we collect dues. This MUST start going through national, sooner rather than later.

Add

Paid positions for grass roots support (to replace some of the functions now served by states and regions between the national level and the grass roots). This could, for instance, provide “news from outside your community” inserts for branch newsletters if the states (or corresponding volunteer groups) decide to drop their own newsletter.