Cohousing-L Mailing List: RE: Printed copies of on-line Cohousing Magazine

[Joani Blank (joani]

> One question which comes up regularily at budget time is why join the 
> Cohousing Network?
> What do you get for the joining fee?  One answer to that was the glossy 
> magazine.  Even that never was convincing enough for my neighbors to spend 
> $60 on. It would be interesting to see if memberships drop given the lack 
> of a magazine.
>
> Rob Sandelin

The Cohousing Association (no longer the Cohousing Network) will be jumping 
into this discussion about the move from print to online magazine shortly. 
However, I feel the need to respond to the paragraph above right away. Rob, 
in case you haven't noticed, membership in the Association dropped to zero 
some months ago, because we no longer have members. However, I'm pleased to 
say that our supporter base is growing rapidly as the magazine has been 
broadcast now to our database, already reaching close to ten times the 
number of people who held paid memberships and received the print Journal 
when it was in publication. Also, a good number of people who never before 
were members (or who had long ago let their subscriptions/memberships 
lapse), have said that they are now eager to make tax deductible 
contributions to the Association to support our programs and the growth of 
the cohousing movement in the United States.

Joani Blank
member of the Board of Coho/US, very proud of our on-line magazine
http://www.cohousing.org/magazine  (for those who have not yet seen it),
but speaking here as an individual.......

Joani Blank
510-834-7399
Cell: 510-387-1315
joani [at] swansway.com
www.joaniblank.com 

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