One of the first things should be to appoint Jim or another as a treasurer. Write up an agreement to open an account under the WAA name with treasurer accountability. Start a donation drive first to help with publicity costs, because publicity will be important to get the kind of numbers that will be effective for the causes. After the WAA has official platforms and membership directives then set up a reasonable membership fee. Large numbers of people should provide the necessary funding w/o putting up a lot of money per person. Have a written agreement that in the event the WAA does not make it off the ground that the original donators would either get the donation amount back or have a predetermined fishing cause or charity that the treasury fund will go to, such as river clean up projects or net pen programs. Got to have some financial funding to get it going quickly. Somebody mentioned getting help from NSIA for funding. ..shtick