I don't believe that "handing out " money will save small regional clubs. Ideas as to how to make money for your club is far more beneficial for their future. Every club is different in its make up and all ideas do not apply to every club. A guideline should be establish for the regional clubs. The individual club will have to chose what will work for them. An example would be to help the closest club to you with ring set, selling of raffles tickets or catalog sales or enter one of your dogs as support. Several years ago, I was at a specialty and wanted to purchase raffle tickets. They had no one to sell them . I took the roll of tickets and went around the ring selling for them. Another idea to help them financially is for the club or an individual to pledge a trophy for the smaller club. Years ago, my club pledged a class of trophies for the futurity when a club in our region was hosting it. Maybe a club could purchase or get an item donated, like one of your shirts and sell raffles tickets for it. Some members of my club belong to another club and help them with running the smaller club. There are a lot of ideas out there. We all need to pool the ideas and each club can select what they can handle. I am fortunate, I belong to a fairly large club with a strong handful of people that do most of the work. We work together, overlap each other, and just get the job done. Mary In a message dated 8/10/2009 7:03:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, dan-ann@xxxxxxxx writes: I would like to see this list throw out a question to all the candidates for this years PC elections. If you are elected what will you do to help the regional clubs. I have sat and read how the PC is going to do this going to do that to promote the world show. A packet is being sent to the regional clubs with donation suggestions- a member will be funding raising Well how about a little help for those small clubs who are the heart of this one Big Club- I know of clubs who have struggled to keep shows going with only 3-4 active members, clubs who can barely pay their club insurance. The strong regional club members don't want to give up but just may have to - maybe the PC should consider a donation to them Sally www.embroiderybysally.org ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2008. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================