VOTE United We Dance Responds to Arlene Yu: Part 2, How We Grow
The second part of our answer to Arlene Yu's question comes from Michael Brocks:
How we can grow, where we could and should be: Our team is thankful to all the volunteers who have taken USA Dance from its origins as USABDA to present day, nearly five decades later. No organization can last nearly half a century without truly dedicated volunteers whose love and passion for the organization carry it through the years, year after year after year. We thank you all for your service.
To take us into the next half century, we need to come together, as leaders and as stakeholders in our organization and our own future. We need to engage in a process of strategic planning, to revisit our mission and our vision, to take stock of where we have been, where we want to go, where we need to go. And we need to do this together so that we can get there together. We are a community of dancers, stretching across the USA -- indeed across the globe, for we are all part of a worldwide community of dancers.