SSA GROWBOOK!
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Introduction
SSA GROWBOOK! is a resource book to help you participate in the effort to grow the sport of soaring and grow the SSA. It is a recipe book containing recipes for growth that have been proven to work. Whether you are trying to start a new soaring club, or to grow your current soaring club, or are trying to launch or grow a commercial soaring venture, you will find useful and effective recipes to grow soaring in this book.
Growth is good for soaring. New soaring enthusiasts provide the lifeblood of our sport. Every challenge we face in soaring - airspace preservation, airport preservation, enhanced flight safety, aircraft certification, or pilot certification procedures, to name a few - would be easier to surmount if we had the additional resources that a larger pool of pilots, and a larger SSA membership roster, would provide.
SSA GROWBOOK will help you find ways to make soaring grow, and provide you with tips and references to make your growth efforts easier and more effective. In the past, grassroots soaring activists had to spend a lot of time designing and testing a growth program. Now, with GROWBOOK, you don't have to spend any time re-inventing a wheel that was already invented somewhere else. Instead, you can select a strategy that appeals to you and employ it in your community. If you and your fellow soaring pilots persevere in promoting soaring, you will likely see the growth you desire.
SSA GROWBOOK is for all SSA members. If you have comments or constructive criticisms (such as an idea that you know can work but that is not listed in this book) please send them to me, at the address below. Chances are your ideas or comments will appear in the next revision of GROWBOOK.
Thanks for using GROWBOOK. I hope it helps you to promote soaring and I hope it helps our sport to grow again.
Safe soaring,
Bob Wander
Chair, SSA Growth Committee
PS: If you have suggestions please send them to me in care of:
The Soaring Society of America
PO Box E
Hobbs, NM 88241
The folks in the SSA office will forward your suggestions to me.
