MA has just gone overboard in kissing PF'er @$$ this time.
You ain' seen nuttin yet. Seems like the AMA REALLY wants to jump on the gen x boat these days. I'm sure there will be more to come ... Newton's law's ... you know things in motion and all.
Maybe it had something to do with the change in the new millennium 6 years back and they are just now realizing that it was more then just a date change. Or perhaps their computer systems were wiped out by the infamous Y2K bug and it took them a while to get things back on line and back to the now.
Either way the AMA see something very ...peculiar... in how the world works these days, obviously. While just about everything else in the world is growing, even gas companies are making record earnings and growth, the AMA is shrinking. Guess they want a piece of the action which everyone else is benefitting from this "forward progress" movement.
Many of company, both NFP and FP have resisted to mold their business models with the times and tried to maintain old school mentalities, most of which wished they molded sooner then later. One of the big problems with having an NFP is that you have to focus more on trying to constantly obtain "growth" funds rather trying to obtain the actual mission statement's goals which you set out for. Perhaps the AMA should consider what MANY NFP's have done to stay alive, convert from NFP to FP maybe even IPO and go public.