I suppose that it is important to point out that their is a difference between our Foundation and our Fraternity Headquarters.
The Foundation supports TLC, our foundation grants, and scholarships as well as several other things. This is where all that money raised at Convention goes--which was a wonderfully huge amount this year!--as well as Senior Giving and other donations.
Fraternity Headquarters receives a specified amount each year per member. Your chapter FVP should have the dues break down and it's pretty easy to figure out what gets sent to FHQ. If you consider that that is, generally speaking, all the money that FHQ brings in each year, it's amazing that we do what do!
While I have no idea what the actual monetary figures are, I do know that there are several different areas of the budget for National Council to consider. Some of them are obvious and others are not but they all have valid reasons to be there.
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