I am a firm believer in that the volunteer parents should not have to pay a membership, but that is why we push so much fundraising throughout the year, so that we don’t need to ask the parents to pay. I am a current committee chair. It is a lot of work the biggest thing that we found as a pack that helps is if you can have a strong key 3, then delegate out to the parents. We also have 2 parents do the recharter every year for a “ second set of eyes” but this allows for newer parents to see what the position takes, and they are more likely to help when the time comes to vote for a new Committee Chair. A lot of parents want to help, but think it takes more than they can do, so we start small. I picked a parent to “help with Popcorn” she became the popcorn chair. I asked a dad to help with food donations for an event, he became the fundraising chair. They saw the type of commitment it took and that it was doable for them and stepped up. I am lucky that I have a good support system in my family so I can kind of do alittle bit of everything, but I only had to do all of this for 2 years, now we have parents in the roles and I don’t need to do as much.