SURVEY RESULTS
Hello VPS colleague,
Back in late November and early
December you were kind enough to participate in an online General Membership
Survey.
It was stunning that 60 percent of
the entire VPS membership responded to the Survey. Now we have
the results. They are attached in two documents.
Click
to see: Survey Detail Responses
Survey
Summaries
The “Highlights” file is just 6
pages and provides a profile of the Survey findings. The other file is the
Survey and includes the specifics of member responses that you can examine in
detail. Both files are in .PDF format and can be read using Adobe Reader.
As you will see upon examination of
these two files, VPS enjoys widespread support and interest among our members
across the full spectrum of our programs. However, there are areas of our
operation where improvements can be made; the Survey helps us see some of
those.
Our Co-Vice Presidents for Forum
Programs, Mary Jane and Martin Fish, have agreed to convene a Forum meeting of
VPS on Wednesday, January 25, to have a discussion of the Survey findings. We
hope you will join us and members of the VPS Board of Directors at that Forum.
Finally, one issue that is important
to note and which I hope we will consider when we have our membership meeting
at the VPS Forum session on January 25 is the matter of our attrition of
members. We have been maintaining a membership of about 100 but this fall we
dropped to around 80. It is characteristic, I’m told, that we always have a
drop off of members in early September when we start up the new
year in the fall each year but that the membership recovers after several
months. Our membership in the past June at the end of the last club year was
over 100.
Unfortunately, we have not recovered
as well as we would like. As of late November, we had lost about 40 of the
members who had been with us last June. Our President, Liz Bumgarner,
sent emails on December 7 to encourage rejoining VPS to the folks who had not
yet chosen to renew at that time. We hope that many of them will join us again.
Perhaps some of the findings in the General Membership Survey will provide some
insights to help us retain good members each year. We are not trying to grow
much bigger but a loss of some 40 members may not be a healthy sign for an
otherwise very strong club.
Happy New
Year to you and your family.
Best regards, Phil
Philip S. Kronenberg
Vice President for Member Communications
Vienna Photographic Society
12353 Lima Lane
Reston, VA 20191
Email: membership@vps-va.org