Writing
Notes from inside volunteer organizations.
Written for the person who did not ask for the job and is doing it anyway. Every post here is free to read, in full, with nothing to sign up for.
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I was nine the first time I umpired. Most of them quit before they turn fifteen.
A book, a blank piece of paper at a mall registration table, and thirty years of things nobody covered in the training.
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Your registration numbers are fine. Your club is still shrinking.
If you recruit a hundred and forty families and lose a hundred and twenty, you have not grown. You have spent a season standing still.
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Most fraud in volunteer organizations is not clever
It is almost never an elaborate scheme. It is one trusted person, access nobody questioned, and a long enough period of time.
Shorter observations live in notes. Everything goes out by RSS.