Vital Force Annual Board Meeting: Fee Increase & Gratitude
Annual Board Meeting Report
The Vital Force Board meets annually to monitor and provide direction for the fiscal health of The Vital Force, a non-profit 501 c3. We also review the prior year’s activities and set priorities and intentions for the forthcoming year.
We are pleased to report that membership levels remained consistent from issue-to-issue (and even increased by a few percentage points). Your current tax-deductible membership fee exactlycovers editing, designing, printing, and mailing the journal. All other activities that The Vital Force engages in are entirely supported by donations.
What else does The Vital Force do? We:
- Create and maintain the community’s website (taichichih.org), which includes posting events and conference materials for the benefit of all;
- Maintain the enormous database so students may find teachers.
- At the community’s urging, update the database by contacting (multiple times) each of the 2500+ teachers in the database.
- Maintain the social media platforms of Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, Flickr, and a website blog, so that people around the world may find and connect with other practitioners.
- Provide free subscriptions when we have resources
Donations
Without them, we will be unable to continue the above endeavors. The Vital Force is committed to supporting these community outreach activities during 2017. But this is not sustainable if the current trend continues.
Membership Fee Increase
As a result, the Board voted to increase the annual fee to $50. This will cover some of the above activities. We have begun a free monthly e-newsletterette with Vital Force excerpts (to practitioners who’ve requested it) as a way to test growing the community.
Big Thanks
Huge gratitude to the benefactors who have allowed The Vital Force to maintain its outreach. If you wish to participate in the community-building outlined above, you may donate on taichichih.org or by calling or writing using the contact information for The Vital Force on page 24. Mary and I agree that it is an honor and a privilege to serve in this capacity.
The Board consists of Lisa Otero, Guy Kent, and Dora Wiemann.*
