What Does My Club Get From Ruritan?
What Does My Club Get From Ruritan?
Tax exemption:
brochures, pamphlets,
Clubs benefit - $280 per $1000 raised because they
Tax Exempt Status
awards. Manage and maintain inventory and
are exempt from federal income tax
If your club didn't have tax exempt status --which Ruritan National
sales of apparel and specialty items through Ruritan supply. Provide
Staff support to National maintains for you -- for every $1,000 logistics for national board
Officers, District Leadership and clubs.
Executive staff:
you raised the IRS would take $280. For a club that raises $5,000 a year
that means YOUR
of directors meetings, supply materials for district conventions. Plan, promote, publicize, and
Work with committees of
affiliation with Ruritan is manage the Ruritan
board, manage and implement board approved programs, administer
worth $1,400 a year for just this reason alone.
National Convention and functions. Negotiate contracts, receive all
policy, strategic planning,
registrations, make
arrangements for meals
and guarantees, as well as contracts and
Stability
arrangements for entertainment, audio- visual, photography services to National convention, and
History has shown us that Ruritan Clubs who choose to disconnect
Foundation Fellowship weekends and summer leadership conference. Plan, negotiate, and execute fundraising activities for Ruritan National Foundation
from the national
including working with vendors and professional
organization and become "community clubs" fail at
marketing firms and specialists. Negotiating contracts for future conventions. Manage and maintain membership and growth and
their goals within two
development activities and contacts with volunteers
years. Without the framework that Ruritan provides, even clubs with the best intentions
in districts including providing audio and video public service announcements, billboards, banners, promotional material, club building materials and assistance, charter materials, new member
are unable to keep their groups
materials, community assessment services,
together.
research, and training services.
develop and maintain partnership relationships with service partners, value added member benefit partners, government entities. Manage office staff and functions, national, district and club finances, investments, cash flow, legal, computer programming, web page design and maintenance, Ruritan National Foundation, government and media relations, maintenance of tax exempt status, trademarks, taxes. Provide assistance to members with all the above. Publish, edit and produce the RURITAN magazine and newsletters, handbooks,
Liability Insurance Protection
One of the main reasons for affiliation with Ruritan National is for the excellent liability
Insurance protection package -provided FREE of charge to every
club. Purchasing this kind of coverage, per event, can cost up to $600 per policy. A club that holds three fundraising events a year can save $1,800 just by being a part of Ruritan National.
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What Does My Club Get From Ruritan?
Changed addresses: 880
Ruritan National Foundation
Added new members to data base: 3,853 Deleted dropped members from
Ruritan provides a charitable (501 c-3)
database: 4,504
organizational framework where your club can assist in disaster relief through
Operation We Care and participate in
Received and accounted for donations to Ruritan Foundation: 1,437 Added funds: 17 Added Tom Downing Fellows: 117
scholarship programs. A club
Produced and mailed newsletters &
investing in the Build Your Dollars scholarship programs over a 10 year period can earn thousands of dollars
from that benefit alone.
special mailings: 12,500 pieces Processed billing for vendors and vouchers: 1,012 Managed affinity partnerships: 9 Managed value added partnerships: 7
Staff: Provide accounting, membership, help desk, materials, supplies, and other services.
Managed service partnerships: 15 Calculated and produced monthly statistical information Published, printed, packaged, mailed club kits to all clubs
Annually staff takes action on: Phone calls: 10,800 Emails: 7,500 Faxes: 4,600 Letters: 2,400 Deposited checks: 12,566 Received and routed secretary's reports: 14,400 Took, Filled, packaged and shipped supply orders: 2,093 Produced and shipped certificates: 2,729 Produced and shipped plaques: 403 Mailed new member packets to members: 3,853 Billed clubs: 1200 (300 per quarter)
Free Books & Materials
Most other civic organization charge their clubs and affiliates for books and materials. Each fall RURITAN sends your clubs an absolutely free club kit. Materials and shipping alone are a value
over $50 -- not including labor. District books and training materials
are also provided FREE -- at a cost of to the organization of approximately $200 per District.
National Partnerships
Because of the Service Partnerships secured by Ruritan National -- your club can work with
established, well-known groups like Boy Scouts of America, Hunters for
the Hungry, and Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge. Connections to these groups and many others through Ruritan National offers services to the citizens of your community that your club might not otherwise be able to
establish.
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Office: Utilities, Telephone, Postage & UPS, Supplies, Maintenance, Equipment 800 service for general contact: $2,359 800 service for supply orders: $500 Postage for general correspondence to Ruritans: $10,000 Postage for special mailings including newsletters: $3,056 Postage and shipping for supply orders filled: $18,444 Supplies used for member communication: $12,000 (boxes, tape, envelopes, letterheads) Maintenance of Holland memorial: $700
What Does My Club Get From Ruritan?
Membership Marketing:
A National Image
Web page & maintenance $3,000 New member cards to new members
The Ruritan name provides your organization with a well-known name and reputation -- a
valuable asset to clubs. Ruritan community service activities usually
$1.24 each or $4,778 New member mailing to new members $3.57 each or $13,755 New members kits to members of new clubs $864
receive much more support and recognition than projects carried out by an ad hoc group of citizens or a
Presidents Gold keys $5.45 each Jack Gwaltney pins $17.95 each Ruritan Forever for Jack Gwaltney recipients $600 each
local club not affiliated with Ruritan National.
Billboards $40 each Decals $1.25 each
Other administration: Updates of member service packages (computer programming) $15,000 Audit of Ruritan National and Ruritan National Foundation (required by constitution) $9,000 Employee Training $2,500
Statics $1.25 each Audio and Video public service announcements ? Audio $3.00 each Video $10 each Area Zone Governor travel and expansion $6,000 DRM awards ? pins $5.50 each, ribbons $.40 each, coats $85 each New Member awards $ each
Travel:
National Expansion Awards $37 each
President to board meetings,
conventions, special club & district
events $12,900
Vice president to board meetings, conventions, special club & district events $8,400
Leadership Training
One of the very first purposes for Ruritan, when
Staff to conventions and special club and district events, training, other meetings $14,000 Non board committee members to
it was organized in 1928 was to help build community leaders. It's still true today -- Ruritans who have highly visible
committee meetings $1,500
volunteer roles in important
Growth and Development-
community projects can improve the lives of hundreds -- even thousands
of people around them.
Questions Answered
Every day the Ruritan National Home Office fields a total of 395 individual contacts from
members -- that's faxes, emails, phone calls, and pieces of mail -- with
a 10 member full-time staff that's 39.5 contacts per employee with
Ruritans.
District and Club: Past President (national) Pins and plaque and Gong and gavel $1,100 materials only Outstanding club presidents awards $12 each or $996 materials only Blue Ribbon awards $14 each $1,064 materials only Outgoing district cabinet certificates and plaques $1,863 materials only Community Service certificates $1,950 materials only
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What Does My Club Get From Ruritan?
Community Service plaques $375 materials only
Membership committee guide $.05 each
Directors travel within districts, to board meetings Invitations to membership $.03 each
and conventions $52,000
Member handbooks $.14 each
Dues refunds to districts $100,000
Community service guides $.08 each
Secretary's books $9.34 each
Treasurer's books $1.68 each
Club officers handbooks $1.06 each 4 to each club District officers handbooks $2.26 each
Awards and Recognition
Ruritan National has an established awards
Letting the secret out (PR) handbook $.56 each Awards book $.20 each Color Brochure $.13 each Foundation Brochure $.06 each
program. Your members and your club can earn recognition, plaques and trophies for their work in the community. This kind of systematic awards program
4-H Brochure $.17 each
provides goodwill and inspiration to
Installation guide $.11 each
individuals who share themselves
District and Club (continued): Appointed officers guide $.05 each
with their community and can encourage continued support of your club.
National Convention
Each year Ruritans gather in a medium-sized U.S. city for fellowship and to conduct the national business of the organization. Belonging to Ruritan allows members discounted rates and special activities that would be considerably more expensive purchased individually.
Discounts from Affiliates
Ruritan Affiliate Partnerships offer considerable discounts to Ruritan members. Using the Ruritan
member codes, a member who books one CHOICE hotel room, and rents one HERTZ
car could save $30 to $50 with this onetime use of this benefit alone -- thus paying
his or her national dues for the year. Multiply the benefit by several uses each year and the member is actually earning money by
being a Ruritan.
Supply catalog $1.14 each Club kits including above materials $45.69 each or $59,397 (does not include packaging and labor) Average cost to ship 1 kit $5.50 each or $7,150 Training materials to districts $194 each or $7,178 Average cost to ship 1 set $15 or $555 Liability insurance for all clubs $70,000 Summer leadership conference $16,000 Governors to national convention $33,300 Cost to purchase Ruritan Supply items $125,000 Reimbursement of meals for district training $1,000 Magazines to every member 4 times a year $75,000
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