Re: [RC] AERC National Championship ride FUNDING

[Terry Woolley <cancer@simplyweb.net>]

I would like to clear a few things up regarding AERC support of the national
championship.

In the past AERC solicited and obtained a sponsor for the national
championship ride.  This sponsor paid for the awards for the national
championship in previous years.   AERC supported the ride by giving free
monthly advertisements in Endurance News to promote the ride.   There is
always an ongoing effort on the part of AERC to keep membership dues down,
and since there is such a small percentage of the membership who do
participate in the ride, the Board has been reluctant to take money from the
AERC budget to underwrite this ride.

However, this last year, the sponsor who had committed to again provide the
awards had financial problems and withdrew the sponsorship.  At the mid-year
board meeting, the Board voted to spend $2,600 for the awards for the 2001
championship ride wich will be given in Reno.   I don't know what you would
call it, but I would call free advertising and contributing $2,600 for
awards "supporting the ride".

Terry Woolley Howe
Competitions Chairman


----- Original Message -----
From: "Deanna German" <finishis2win@columbus.rr.com>
To: <SandyDSA@aol.com>; "Ridecamp" <ridecamp@endurance.net>
Sent: Tuesday, February 26, 2002 3:01 PM
Subject: [RC] AERC National Championship ride FUNDING


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> someone wrote:
> >Please take into consideration not increasing the qualifications for this
> >years NC ride. The AERC doesn't finance the ride.
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> OK, I missed the whole funding thing in my earlier post. It slipped past
me
> and slipped my mind from last fall's posts that AERC didn't put any
support
> into this ride, monetary or otherwise. What is up with that? I belong to
> other organizations and those organizations either foot the bill for or
> substantially underwrite the costs of the annual national competition. Or
> they find a sponsor.
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> Folks, I'm a newbie, but this is why an outside perspective is good.
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> San replied:
> >Sorry but I Don't see what this has to do with anything. Do you think for
a
> >minute that American or National League Baseball finance the World
series?
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> No, the World Series is financed by TV money. Like it or not, money makes
> the world go 'round.
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> >In the end, if this is a determining factor, if I am AERC, I then
> >withdraw sanctioning, points and standings based on this competition. No
> >offense intended at all, but this is just not a logical argument for
dropping a
> >baseline of qualifications
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> Here's the logic of the arguement: increased qualifications imposed by the
> AERC might possibly limit participation (I personally don't think so, see
> last post), yet AERC isn't contributing a dime. The RM or OC sticks
> financial neck out to put on ride, possibly has decreased participation
and
> well, loses money.
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> Hopefully this year AERC is allowing the ride management to seek
> sponsorship? If memory serves me correctly, they tried to control that
last
> year too.
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> BOTTOM LINE: AERC IS TRYING TO HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. Raise qualifications but
> yet not contribute financially. That stinks.
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> >and in my 30 plus years of involvement in sports of all kinds - human and
> >equine - a pattern has been historically demonstrated that lowering the
> >standards lowers expectations and finally performance.
>
> Here we don't disagree. I just wanted to point out that money DOES have
> something to do with it.
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> Deanna (Ohio) M30478
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