Question: Should we do a COG brick at NCM?

[callaway4fun]

I hope that the NCM knows that we as a group really wanted to make this happen. It is important for us to support a cause as great as this.. I hope to move forward and finally ink out a deal that is good for both parties. As a member of the COG I want to give a donation for this cause and I truly hope we can come to an agreement. As I have found my Company will match my donation making it even better for the museum. I hope the lines of communications remain open and we can move forward for this great cause.

 

[kingforward]

with that kind of money commitment and all the stuff that was displayed by the generous owners here, I say we buy an acre across the street from the NCM, stick a trailer on it, open our own museum and stick a 20ft. statue of a turbo on it!

I volunteer to run the gift shop.

 

[TurboLuigi]

Folks,

During the previous update a few weeks ago, I mentioned that throughout this effort our committee has demonstrated flexibility and the desire to work with the NCM focused on the initial conversations expressed by the museum to start a new and creative donation program tied to the museum expansion.

Our goal is that through our donation, there can be a Permanent Recognition of the Callaway Owners Group and its donating members within the NCM, and recognition of the contribution of Callaway Cars to the Corvette world.

As of our last communication exchange with the museum almost 1 week ago, the NCM is unwilling to put in writing the commitment initially discussed with us and thus we keep being pointed back to use a standard NCM donation agreement form which has not been forwarded to us. While we have not seen the form, we doubt that a standard form would contain any of the creative elements which have been discussed, and thus would not provide an equitable benefit to the COG for the level of contributions that we would be asking COG members to make. Afterall our group requires no membership dues and therefore a fund raising effort such as this would rely solely on our members willingness and ability to donate. For the level of donation being discussed, it is only fair to see the creative elements of the donation the NCM discussed with us in writing.

Sadly, as far back as early January we took the effort to outline the creative donation elements on an agreement that we drafted. We then changed and resubmitted our drafted agreement after its initial rejection, and after several iterations and a couple of months later are being told to use a standard donation form which they have not provided nor would list the elements of what our donation provides us.

While neither us or the museum have said that this effort is now over, the lack of continued engagement on their part indirectly signals us that the window for this program is nearly closed. This is unfortunate and we remain optomistic.

Yours Truly,

-Luigi
:cool

 

[*89x2*]

Luigi, thank you for summarizing where we stand. As of this morning, the NCM has re-contacted us and in turn, we emailed a response to try and move forward on this idea. :cool

We stand ready to listen and remain flexible - However, the question remains, will the NCM remain true to their original push for entertaining creativity, and translating the statements expressed into an agreement that is beneficial to all

 

[redb2k's]

Thanks for all the hard work. Hopefully it will all work out for both parties.

 

[SurfnSun]

the NCM has re-contacted us

Hmmm I remember prophesying that they would

 

[*89x2*]

Thanks for all the hard work. Hopefully it will all work out for both parties.

I am with you - Hopefully it does!


I had just spent the past several minutes typing out where our recent discussions have taken us however, it still remains as something that can be summed up in this phrase: Respectfully finding the middle ground.

...stay tuned

 

[TurboLuigi]

Folks...

Regretably, we are not able to come to terms with the NCM for the donation effort we were leading up. We were obviously trying to do much more than a brick.

-Luigi
:cool