[preciousjeni]

carol9a:

I'm very confused about your frustration. It seems that you're misunderstanding what the posts on this thread are saying!! I can't tell which organization you are a member of. (Is it Latina? If so, how have your members dealt with the issues you're bringing up? That might be a good way to educate the rest of us from the inside looking out.)

Regarding changes in the thrusts of organizations, I was thinking about starting a new thread on this, but since this one is active, let's just discuss it here.

Is it really ok for members of an organization to change the mission/purpose/creed/etc.? If an org started as an AGLO/LGLO/BGLO/MCGLO and is now considered "historically" AGLO/LGLO/BGLO/MCGLO, is it ok revamp?

Let's say, for example, an MCGLO has a majority of African-American members in 50 years. Would it be ok to change it from an MCGLO to a non-discriminating BGLO? You'd have to change the purpose, mission statement and other relevant components, wouldn't you?

Or is it better to maintain the org that the founders created, letting new members (regardless of "race") know that the org will focus on the concerns of all people even though the membership is mostly African American.

It's either one or the other - it cannot be both. To clarify, I'm referring strictly to already existing orgs...I suppose if you start a new org, you can say that it has no specific focus at all and will choose philanthropies and other elements based on something else altogether.

Edited because I confused myself!