$10,000 per person to develop the "community?"

Many LGBTians on the ground are not so pleased with an ad from JFLAG regarding a workshop which for all intents and purposes is to equip persons with skills outside of advocacy, my criticisms about the lack of programs to do just that is answered in a sense but with a hefty price tag when it finally comes.

I thought that this kind of rare, well needed and only for the privileged session it seems were to be regularly done in cycles or at least annually especially in these tough economic times for those who really need such skills, now it will set you back $10,000 if you want to partake in the latest one. This should have been absorbed by the J or seek to find expertise within the LGBT community which I have no doubt is there just not engaged. 

How can "community" be built with obstacles as a charge and as high as $10,000.00

These are the workshops I would gladly welcome and direct persons to but a monetary charge really! when JFLAG is an Advocacy/social justice agency. Never in my years at the J did I see or hear of community building activities (though rare) having a charge and such a hefty one at that.

This does not look good at all especially when the J faces some backlash from the ground as persons are still not pleased with some bizarre decisions earlier in the year and the handling or mishandling of the Queen Ifrica matter leaving the lobby with a black eye for a few months and the credibility of the crisis communication in serious questions.

Good idea for a small business workshop, bad idea to charge a fee for the very persons who may be interested but not be able to afford same when they are seeking opportunities to break free from the financial meltdown.

Think on these things.

Peace and tolerance

H