I was reading part of an AMA status report and found this buried in the text.

Expenses are up in all areas: services, supplies, salaries. The HQ staff has been expanded to give better services to clubs and Junior programs. The magazine cost has increased. New office equipment has been purchased. Hopefully continued membership growth will produce enough new income from dues this year to pay for the extra costs.

But we really need a bigger margin between income and expenses. with expenses always creeping up we're constantly dependent upon expanding membership. So we have not been able to get ahead, as we might if new income were to go into new services,greater efficiency,and added membership benefits. Instead of merely holding our own we need a breakthrough.

The obvious solution to this is a dues increase. But it's certainly not a popular one, even though many people recognize that it's normal in any organization-due to ordinary rises in the cost of living-for dues increases to be applied about every five years.

And so it continues on for several more paragraphs. Does this sound like a viable plan for organizational growth?