I'm not the only one doing stuff regularly to help the community for free Mike, that's the point of my comment. I work with all sorts of people who volunteer their time to help JPF out for FREE. So you entire point falls flat. If not to 10's of thousands of professional industry people's volunteer hours each year on the awards (not to mention the overall 100's of thousands of hours donated by artists, writers and various people involved with music) our awards couldn't happen. ALL of that is donated time by people who make money in the industry who charge us nothing to help our community. Our mentors charge nothing. In the thousands of JPF shows (except the awards shows) we've only paid a venue 1 time to use their venue and sound system and people and that was only due to a mistake made by our local coordinator there. Our Chapter coordinators are also unpaid. Mentors do all sorts of things for free and few of them even provide services for sale they can advertise and when they do, they don't run or get ads in our newsletter like our sponsors, only a line when they write an article about what they do. I can go on and on. And that's just JPF. So please don't make comments when you have no idea what you are talking about. JPF isn't the only entity that gets big time help from volunteers. There's tremendous numbers of them out there doing what they can to help.

Brian

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