I’m in a small-ish org. There are about 60 members total, but only 10 are actually active in any way. There are another 15-20 or so who are semi-regulars, or who will sometimes attend meetings, or sometimes attend demonstrations or actions etc with us.
It’s gotten really bad over the past few years as people have sort of started fading away. People are flaky, and it routinely takes several weeks to get an answer or an update from some members for even trivial things.
Several of us have tried doing social activities of all kinds, but they always end up the same.
This gets really embarrassing when we try to do things with other groups and can’t muster the numbers to be effective.
We’ve tried to do outreach to members to see what’s going on, and we just get the same explanation - I’m busy.
Has anyone here faced something similar? Any tips to get us out of this rut?
Yeah my org is doing that rn. For these guys I think the problem is they never put any work into building a bench, so when people inevitably burn out, move on or literally just move away there's no one ready for leadership.
My org is trying to fix this by getting people out for potluck dinners like @ScrewdriverFactoryFactoryProvider@hexbear.net mentioned but like, left organizing is notorious for having a bunch of weirdos in their membership who can be tedious to socialize with. I don't want to have dinner with my org I want to organize with my org and have dinner with my friends. Maybe if we have a good action we go out for a drink or something to hang out but if I have time to just go do that I'd much rather do that with people I know I love hanging out with not the fifty year old left anti-communist and the Breadtube guy.