Other benefits for members include providing access to things that might not be easily obtained. This falls under the category of access and discounts.

Museums and Credit Unions
For example, we could develop a relationship with various museums and offer our members discounts to those museums. For this, you’d get a membership card, and when you show up at those museums, you get x% off. (We’d have to negotiate for it).

As a member of the National Museum of Nuclear Science and History, I have that privilege. In their welcoming letter, they also sent me an invitation to join the Sandia Laboratory Federal Credit Union.

We could work to get the Focus Fusion Society to be part of this network, and offer our members these perks. It’s a good synergistic move.

Costs to our organization
We’d have to take the time to negotiate these deals, make sure it all checks out legally, there’s probably some reporting and tax filing issues that will come up and need to be maintained. And we’d have to send out formal membership packets to members, with a card and that sort of thing. In other words, we’d need staff and money to handle this.