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Originally Posted by Richard Wallace
I know Sean knows this, but just to clarify for a more general audience: teams, volunteers, and planning committee members are very often the same people. Very engaged, passionate, overworked, under-recognized people. They are the ones who inspire me.
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And please correct me if I'm wrong (I am not someone from a district area), but as I understand it, the district non-profit and the volunteers who make everything happen are responsible for a whole lot more than most regional planning committees. Not only do they coordinate volunteers and secure venues and funding. They secure a lot more of these things, and have to provide field equipment, transportation, and storage, their own A/V coverage, key volunteers for all their events, all financial transactions relating to these (requiring a distinct, local non-profit bank account, instead of routing everything through HQ), etc.
A good illustration of all this can be found in
this document (in particular on page 3). Regional Planning Committees bear no financial risk and have a lot of the process taken care of by HQ. They are only responsible for rounding up local volunteers, venues, and funding. Meanwhile, a district system takes all of these responsibilities and financial risks and manages them themselves.