I thank you for agreeing to be on the initial board of directors and signing the papers so that we could become a bona fide charitable institution.   I could not have done it without you and will be forever grateful that you were on board for the first leg of what I hope will be a long and fruitful journey.

Now, as the organization moves forward, we need to recruit people to carry out the important jobs that must be done to make any business successful.  If you can help in recruitment, fundraising, business planning, marketing, with your creativity and smarts, now is the time to act.

While I greatly appreciate the help you’ve already rendered, going forward a commitment of some kind is needed:  a commitment to the principles of the organization– listening and responding when asked; a commitment to bringing something of practical value to the business of the organization; a financial commitment.

Absent at least one of those forms of commitment, the time to part as friends is approaching an end.  I am staking my life on this program, and, of course, I don’t expect that from anyone else.   I expect much less from the rest of the board, but much more than nothing.  Any of you would expect the same.