ASHA Is Proud To Use The Latest In Cost-Saving Communication Technology
(Note: You can read the other posts in this series on ASHA's finances by clicking on the following links: Part One Part Two Part Three )
ASHA’s 2008 tax return reports the following expense:
$738,239 for travel.
Read that amount again. $738,239. That’s how much was spent on travel by an organization that employs 306 people. We don’t know exactly how many ASHA employees traveled at our expense in 2008 (and how they traveled: was it first class? Coach? Private Jet? Holiday Inn? The Ritz-Carlton?) but assuming that 5% of ASHA’s employees traveled on company expense (meaning membership expense), that means that in 2008 ASHA could have conceivably spent $49,215 for each of its employees who traveled.
I guess ASHA doesn’t think much of telecommuting, even in an age of ubiquitous blackberries, iphones, and near-zero cost tele-conferencing. So much for ASHA - an organization whose ungainly motto is ”Making effective communication, a human right, accessible and achievable for all" (don't bet on anyone at ASHA winning a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in the future) - being on the cutting edge of effective and, I would add, efficient and inexpensive communication.
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