Carolyn’s donation request on the club facebook group website

Let’s bring it up next meeting. We, as a club have donated clothing, blankets, winter gloves, hats, coats in the past (new or gently used), for the homeless. So that’s not new. We’ve done it around the winter holidays as part of our Holiday party . But it was never posted on Facebook before . Kathy

I took down the post. I know it was a stretch.

Dennis, it had nothing to do with my being president. I simply needed a tent for a homeless woman and thought someone might have an extra one. Last year people brought donations to the holiday party. I have been duly reprimanded and will not use FB for this purpose again.

Let’s clarify and correct. The post was not made on the Club website, nor the official club Facebook page. It was made on the Facebook group which is open to members and non-members alike.

Looking at the group rules, there is nothing that specifically prohibits this kind of request. This is not self-promotion or spam and I think it is relevant as we’re talking about camping gear. During this time there are a lot of sales and people will be buying new gear.

Thank you for your concern, Dennis. The current board’s positions didn’t go into effect until today; we are not involved in moderating Facebook posts. We can add this as an agenda item to our November board meeting and discuss at the January club meeting. Any changes to Facebook group guidelines will be drafted and put up to a club vote prior to implementation.

I strongly hope that we do not lose any members over this.

I hope not!