Membership Report

Here's the Membership report for the December Board Meeting.

We have 323 active memberships

representing 483 individual people.

By state: 274 memberships live in NJ, 20 live in NY, 12 in PA, and the rest in other states ranging from CT to AZ.

The median zipcode -- for Mike, the median was easier to compute than the average (also called the mean) and, unlike the mean, actually has a chance at relevance -- is 07921, which corresponds to Bedminster, NJ.

83 memberships get their NewsLetter electronically. The rest, 240, get it in paper form.

We have 206 Standard Memberships, 116 Supporting Memberships, and 1 Corporate Membership.

For the last three months, (since I started collecting statistics) all numbers are tending gradually down, though not alarmingly so. (See the

attachment.)

There is usually a flurry of renewal activity just before Festival, so this may be a "normal" phenomenon -- a saw-tooth wave with a gradual downward trend til just before festival, then a sharp up-tick at festival that brings the numbers back up again.

I'm working on a procedure to send a routine boiler-plate e-mail to people whose membership is about to expire. When it's fully implemented, it should help keep folks in the fold who otherwise might just forget to renew.

Make Peace. Make Love. Make Music!

Rick