The institution was intended as a salute to Mr. Faulkner, certainly, but also to all great writers, past and present, who provide us with the finest possible role models for encouraging youngsters to discover for themselves the importance and the fun of reading and writing well. We are multicultural in membership and project goals. Members are about equally divided between men and women and are of all ages, young students to octogenarians. The Society has only occasional paid contract employees. All other work for the Society is performed by volunteers.
Events are open to all on an equal basis and are advertised as such.
Interns are chosen on a competitive basis. Our established policy is one of reaching out, targeting promotion efforts to ensure equal opportunity of access to membership and programs. Our organization is nine years old and is meeting its goals without significant debt, is increasing its membership and revenues and is beginning to plan a long-term future for the Society. Patrons of the Society will find especially attractive sponsorship opportunities as excitement builds for the new Fall festival created created in 1997 in honor of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Mr. Faulkner.