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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 12:38 PM
Has anyone thought about charging for Alumni to join the site? My site covers every school year. It is getting so big and taking most of my day to keep up with it. We have over 2500 Alumni and growing daily.
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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 1:09 PM - Response #1
2 cents (or less). It wouldn't be easy to charge without CC changing the system. I can think of some ways, but suggest other alternatives. That would go against the grain as plainly stated on your site. (this is the next size up here The site is FREE Others can chime in with how donations have worked out. We had a slight surplus $ from the reunion and have 3 of us that do 'the work'. Having a 'free' site, helped organize events. Although we are now resting - next year will have a small informal 70 year old thing. More like a giant family gathering. We learned from our reunion what works best - turns out it was the least expensive and most casual. Hope that helps a little on money and help.
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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 1:58 PM - Response #2
We asked for donations and had a great response.
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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 2:14 PM - Response #3
Bill, we too took donations at our last reunion, and paid for ten years!
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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 2:27 PM - Response #4
Bill, is your question really, how do I become a paid Admin for my multiple year site?
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Monday, November 19, 2012 at 7:53 PM - Response #5
I would like to have the option of charging a small fee for access.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 7:15 AM - Response #6
We are a 501c3 non profit and we would like to have the ability to charge a small fee for the site in order to support our scholarship program. Not really a fee for the site only but a fee to be a member of the Alumni Association
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 10:21 AM - Response #7
Hmmm - a fee to be a member of a 501[c]3? Perhaps not allowing anyone access to the web site who has not paid a small fee to be a member would work. Then again, you will have some folks giving out their passwords to allow other to see what is going on with the site. With 2500 members, asking for a one dollar from each would go a long way to perpetuating the site!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 10:46 AM - Response #8
501(c)3 organizations operate on a membership basis all the time. The trick is that you have to discount the *value* of membership in terms of benefits received from the amount paid for that membership in order to determine the tax deductible portion of it, which you then have to provide to the member as documentation (including your org's tax ID number). However, please note that I am not a lawyer and the above comments are my personal conclusions based on my own experience and are not intended to be conveyed as definitive or as legal advice.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 10:52 AM - Response #9
You are current, we are allowed to charge annual dues which support the mission statement of our non profit.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 11:08 AM - Response #10
I sit corrected <> because I am not standing <>. Re: which you then have to provide to the member as documentation As I recall, there is a dollar figure there where the organization HAS to provide, and I don't recall the amount - O.K. Eric, surely you know of a CC member who is a tax attorney or CPA you can call upon to 'chime in' on this! My bad - I will go back to my corner.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 2:24 PM - Response #11
Interesting topic and answers.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 2:28 PM - Response #12
Steve, I am the son of a tax attorney, and I was chair of the board of a small non-profit at the time it applied for and received 501(c)3 status. Does that help?
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 3:21 PM - Response #13
Works for me. And yes, going back to my corner again!
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 8:39 PM - Response #14
Thanks for correcting that, Eric. I was going to speak up. In the non-profit I managed, we charged an annual fee that has since been increased... as have the life memberships. By the way... Girl Scouts have a membership fee and pay dues. Just sayin'...
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012 at 8:48 PM - Response #15
Okay, with the above said... A few cents of mine... Okay... three cents. That is my limit. Let us know what you do. We always like to hear of fundraising efforts -- the pros and cons.
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Monday, May 31, 2021 at 11:17 PM - Response #16
Resurrecting an old thread to ask a related question. I have reunion sites, but this site that I "root admin" but other co-admins do the day-to-day stuff, is a retiree's club. We *do* have yearly membership dues, and access to the club's CC website is also conditional on having paid for membership. I can't find anywhere (i.e. Preferences) to change the Join Here message which says "Participation in this site is free. There are NO FEES of any kind". One of the co-admins asked if we could change that wording, but I can't find a setting for that anywhere. Did I miss it or are we stuck? Of course, when a retiree does join, they'll be aware of the yearly membership dues, but it'd be useful to avoid the ambiguity. Any hints? Request CC for a change? Cheers, Allen.
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Tuesday, June 1, 2021 at 8:27 AM - Response #17
Have you considered a 'Purpose Statement' in the form of an announcement that stays at the top of the home page? We have such an announcement, but it does not necessarily stay at the top, though that is easy enough to do - see our web site.
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