Club Roster Database or Spreadsheet?
Excel and Word have been great in managing club affairs. I have been both secretary and newsletter editor and Office was by far the easiest to use. I back up on CD.
AMA will send your club a spreadsheet with the clubs status and information on all your members. Over the past couple of years, AMA has made some mistakes in addresses and membership status, and your spreadsheet is fundamental in getting those types of errors corrected.
If our club buys land and incorporates, then I will probably move to Quicken or another type of business management software since we will have much more tax and financial transaction data to manage.