a-rai I understand your support for the gbnc president and the council and it's all fine and good, I have no complaints there. It is interesting to note however that the GBNC President is complaining to the public that there is no public involvement or volunteers. Volunteers volunteer because of goodwill. Maybe the goodwill towards GBNC is deteriorating. Maybe the president and the council should be wondering how to earn some goodwill from the community it is 'trying' to represent. Why is GBNC losing it's goodwill asset? Goodwill is accumulated by going out and interacting with all the classes in the community. From what I gather, the current GBNC council is gathering goodwill from the 9to5 working class but that's about it. What about the restaurant workers that compose the major portion of the community who toil 70 plus hours a week yet these are the one who are actually the ones who will volunteer to make the gbnc events a success. Right now the morale is low in GBNC council because they fail to keep this majority in their mind. GBNC should not be an exclusive club it is becoming with activities mostly centered towards big hi fi career interests. It needs to focus on providing a social outlet for this majority who want to feel a part of this community and be involved. Because they are being constantly ignored by the council they don't want to volunteer anymore. GBNC needs to realize that the 9to5 working class cannot keep the GBNC going, GBNC needs to first bring the community together socially before they can diversify into other activities. Before complaining about there not being any volunteers, the GBNC president and the council needs to brainstorm why that is the case. Questions like: What can we do to penetrate some of the social groups in boston in order to make them feel a part of GBNC? How can we narrow the divide that exists between the community and GBNC. Instead of a community centric approach, GBNC has a council centric approach. They are like 'ok, this is what we've been doing for you, why dont' you appreciate what we do. Why don't you help us out or come to the events? There is nothing wrong with us. We're doing what we are supposed to.' Why don't you try being more community centric than council centric then maybe you can get back the goodwill that is slowly trickling out. Instead of making it's programming council centric how about making it community centric.