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I'm taking a bullshit class in business writing and our next assignment is a group project to create some sort of proposal for a non-profit group, preferably locally oriented. I'm pushing hard for our group to do the RRGCC (right now other people are suggesting a Ronald McDonald house and, of course . . . tri-delt sorority).

The problem is that I'm not personally very involved in the RRGCC, although I know that a lot of people that I know are. I've only been climbing for just over 2 years, and I'm only recently getting at all acquainted with the climbing community here. I can tell that there's a lot that could or needs to be done, but other than general things like "raise more money" or "spread information to climbers," etc. I don't really know what the CC needs.

So, all of you armchair philosopher/leaders out there, I'd like any and all proposals for actions that the RRGCC could or should take. My group will do research about the costs of ____, the feasibility of ____, the potentials gains . . . you get the picture. Hopefully I can leverage this retarded class into some sort of plan for action for the CC.

Anything regarding ways to raise money, ways to get more volunteers, ways to spread information to climbers, maybe ways to add some infrastructure, or deal with branches of local government, whatever, will be considered. We'll pick a proposal, do all the research involved, and in a few weeks I might have something to give back to you guys that could help the CC. Or if you could just give me a better idea of some of the problems that the CC is currently facing ( I can see some just from reading the posts on this message board) I could probably come up with some ideas myself. I need to have my ideas sort of fleshed out by Sunday, when I'll be giving my ideas to my group for the decision of which non-profit we're going to use.

By the way, this is Dev, for those of you who know me.

Contact captain static, bob, charlie, or rhino for good "from the horse's mouth" type of info.

I just had to chime in for this quote: "tri-delta, fly the friendly thighs!"

Solid fundraising stratagies that work year in and year out.
Ways to lure donors (from climbing related companies, to anyone or any organization who believes in what the RRGCC is trying to do for the PMRP).
Better organization/member communications.

I should have put this in the Climber's Community category. Is there any way to move it?

When in doubt, tri-delts.

What would probably be most helpful and instead of reinventing the wheel would be for your group to review and provide input the RRGCC's draft Business Plan. If you would PM me with your e-mail I will send you a copy.

Bill Strachan, Executive Director
RRGCC

Something that occured to me recently is that whenever I travel to nearby states (especially OH and TN) and I meet climbers, when I ask them where they climb, they almost always say the Red, even if the city they live in is 4 or more hours away. A lot of these people, I'm guessing, don't know about the current issues in the Red, and they probably aren't too familiar with the CC. Reaching out to these climbers, who come here once or more a month but live far away, getting them to join the CC, and keeping them up to date on issues with this website would probably be helpful both financially, and for land stewardship problems. My knee-jerk answer would be some sort of advertising placed in climbing gyms in the surrounding areas. Does anyone know anything about marketing/advertising, etc.? I feel like we have an untapped market of donors and responsible climbers who care about the gorge, but are ignorant of what the "locals" are going through.