Executive Director's Report
On Home Office Operations
Winter Policy Council Meeting February 2002
Hope Club, Providence, Rhode Island
by Roberta L. Spencer

Report Summary

Conferences

2000 Norway:   Largest conference to date. Net Income approximately: $11,000.
2001 Atlanta:    Second largest conference to date. Net income +/- $33,000.
2002 Italy:        Planning well underway, 300+ abstracts and papers received to date, registration brochure mailed and sent electronically

Website

Hits for 2001 average 2576 per month (2000 - 2073, 1999 - 1173, 1998 - 812)
Site is being continuously updated

Membership services and recruitment

Approximately 3700 records in contacts database (Feb 2001 - 2676)
Memberships processed directly through Society office continues to increase
2001 membership - 835 in 62 countries (2000 - 814 in 55 countries)
New countries include Bahrain, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Egypt, Ethiopia and Netherlands Antilles

Sales

Beer Game boards sales up 28% over last year
Proceedings and back issues sales down 22%
Bibliography updated through Review Vol. 17 - 4, Winter 2001 and Atlanta Proceedings (over 6525 entries)

Society Sponsorship

Income for 2002 to date $9,000

Income for 2001 - $28,922 (Please see note in report.) (2000 - $17,909, 1999 - $12,738: 1998: $11,000; 1997: $4,000)

Allocation of Effort

Using five cost centers for tracking time (Core, Sales, Conference, Web, Publications)
Roberta Spencer moved to 100% in 2001, Jen Rowe move to 100% in 2002

Finances

Please refer to VP - Finance Report
   December 2001 (Unaudited) Net Income: $73,328

 

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Last edited 2/25/02 by JP