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Title:	Equine Notes Conference
Notice:	Topics List=4, Horses 4Sale/Wanted=150, Equip 4Sale/Wanted=151
Moderator:	MTADMS::COBURNIO

Created:	Tue Feb 11 1986
Last Modified:	Thu Jun 05 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	2080
Total number of notes:	22383

1992.0. "Starting a Club from scratch?" by PCBUOA::LPIERCE (Do the watermelon crawl) Tue Sep 12 1995 11:23

I was wondering if any of you have started a club before? Do you know what
is involved?  The reason I ask is because this past year I was the president
of a club.  I had a wonderful time and we put on some super events, and
all who attended wanted more. :-)

The club had been in existence since 1971, so all the legal structure
was put in place for me - I just stepped in as a department head - or should
I say "puppet president"

A few of the original board members (including the x-prez) who didn't want
anything to do w/the club - were just to much to handle and they also 
didn't want to give up the rains.  I was just plugging along doing what I
wanted to do, but it got just to darn hard and not worth it anymore.

I resigned today along with the VP,Membership & Newsletter people and as
of 12/30 there will no longer by a Secretary or Treasure.  I was hoping
I could just take over the legal structure of the club once it folds, but
I have reconsidered that thought.

I rather have a club of my own!  But HOW?  I don't want to start small, but
I guess I'll have to?  I am ready for spring w/ideas for 3 dressage shows,
2 trail rides/hunter pace's and lots of ideas for meetings, meetings, 
meetings!

What do I need for a legal structure for a non-profit organization?  about
how much $$$ would it take to start???  I can get about 10-15 members right
off the bat..

Any other info would be greatly appreciated.

Louisa

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1992.1 Some thoughts! LEDDEV::BAER Tue Sep 19 1995 15:13 20

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1992.1	Some thoughts!	LEDDEV::BAER		`Tue Sep 19 1995 15:13`	20
	Louisa, I don't have any info on starting a club, but I live in Harvard and a few of us ride together in Harvard and was thinking of starting the Harvard Horse Association up again, since it also doesn't exist anymore. But maybe we could combine the 2 groups/area together. We have about 1/2 of the group that rides Western and 1/2 of the group that rides English. So we are looking for something that would combine both types of riders. Can you keep me posted on how you are making out and give me more details on how the club would work and when meeting would be held. I can also give you a list of people that may be interested in joining. Thanks Brenda Baer dtn 223-5823 leddev::baer

    Louisa, 
    
    I don't have any info on starting a club, but I live in Harvard and a
    few of us ride together in Harvard and was thinking of starting the
    Harvard Horse Association up again, since it also doesn't exist
    anymore.
    
    But maybe we could combine the 2 groups/area together.  We have about
    1/2 of the group that rides Western and 1/2 of the group that rides
    English.  So we are looking for something that would combine both types
    of riders.
    
    Can you keep me posted on how you are making out and give me more
    details on how the club would work and when meeting would be held.
    
    I can also give you a list of people that may be interested in joining.
    
    Thanks
    Brenda Baer		dtn 223-5823		leddev::baer