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[quote=cburkhardt]Expensive? A lot of other youth groups do engage in product sales fund raising. We have taken the decision that rather than put the energy of our families and girls into the fundraising, we would put it into program. We did a pretty thorough survey of girl parents and found that they really did not want fund raising obligations that are so prevalent in other girl youth service organizations. A related issue is that product fund raising is often quite difficult and sometimes dangerous for children from under-resourced families of our City. We view ourselves as wanting to draw from the entire city in terms of geography and economic circumstance, so that was on our mind as well. For those children we have built a capability to subsidize their participation. Remember, that fee structure effectively includes at least two weeks of room and board during our campouts. Compare that to what people pay for children to attend away games of sporting groups and school ski clubs. Our program is very cost-effective in comparison. We are going to have a first-rate, front-ranking program and there will be no nickel-and-diming of parents in our Troop. Of course after a year or so of operations we will re-examine our fee structure. It will be lowered if we end up with excess retained funds.[/quote]
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