Hours per year for CAP

[tdepp]

Numbers mean things - whether its substantiating your tax deductions, adding to a promotion or decoration narrative, or just having a baseline understanding of the reality of a given activity vs. mental credit for what you think you are doing, one of the reasons people are afraid of numbers if because they don't lie.

Sure, Eclipse, your QB rating isn't very high but I hear you usually throw the game winning TD in the the 4th Q of your games.    So I'd keep you around. 

But numbers don't tell the entire story.  Let's face it.  Some activities are more important than others.  Some activities are of a higher priority than others.  The numbers can help you see where you are spending your time and resources but they don't tell you what you should be doing.  That is a far more difficult process that is less empirical. 

As an attorney in private practice, believe me, I know--time = money.  And when it comes to telling our story and talking to funders, quantifying volunteer hours is impressive.  Many groups do it.  Sometimes, grantors require it as part of the deliverables.  But it also takes quite a bit of management (or at least decent software) to do it and not make it a burden on volunteers and the volunteers who have to manage those volunteers.  Perhaps PCLaw could make a version for CAP that tracks time on projects that wouldn't be too onerous for members to actually use.  But as we all know, garbage in garbage out. 

Interesting discussion from a management, funding, and PR point of view.