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Prospective member survey — draft

Status: Draft, not yet fielded. Pre-formation. Intended to be deployed via Typeform, Google Forms, or a Klaviyo-embedded form once the Ganjier Guild is incorporated and a privacy notice is published.

Purpose:

  1. Validate proposed membership tiers and dues
  2. Identify which programs and benefits most matter to the cannabis-professional community
  3. Surface candidates for committees, founding board, and volunteer roles
  4. Build a pre-formation interest list (opt-in) for launch announcement

Length target: 5–7 minutes. Most questions optional.

Privacy posture: All responses optional. Personally identifying fields gated behind explicit opt-in. Do not collect data the Guild cannot legally store and protect (see SECURITY.md).

Section 1 — About you (optional, helps us segment results)

  1. Which best describes your primary role in cannabis? (single select)
  2. Cultivator / grower
  3. Extractor / processor
  4. Retail / dispensary staff or manager
  5. Educator or trainer
  6. Lab / quality / compliance
  7. Brand / marketing / communications
  8. Legal, accounting, or consulting
  9. Investor / operator (multi-function)
  10. Patient advocate or industry adjacent
  11. Student or aspiring professional

  12. Other (free text)

  13. How many years have you worked professionally in or with the cannabis industry? (single select) — 0, <1, 1–3, 4–7, 8–15, 15+

  14. State or country where you primarily work. (free text, optional)

  15. Do you currently hold any of these Ganjier credentials? (multi-select)

  16. Friend of the Guild
  17. Ganjier Product Specialist (GPS)
  18. Certified Ganjier
  19. None / not yet
  20. Prefer not to say

Section 2 — The proposed Ganjier Guild

The Ganjier Guild is a proposed 501©(6) trade association — a professional society for cannabis professionals. The full proposal is publicly available at github.com/ginalyncox/ganjier-guild-launch-blueprint.

  1. Before this survey, had you heard of the Ganjier Guild proposal? (yes / no / not sure)

  2. On a 1–5 scale, how needed do you think a professional society for cannabis professionals is right now?

  3. What problems would you most want such a society to help solve? (multi-select, choose up to 3)

  4. Credibility and recognition for skilled professionals
  5. Continuing education and training standards
  6. Ethical standards and accountability
  7. Member-to-member peer network
  8. Industry advocacy on policy and regulation
  9. Job board and career mobility
  10. Insurance, benefits, or group services
  11. Events and conferences
  12. Research and publications

  13. Other (free text)

  14. What concerns, if any, do you have about a 501©(6) trade association in cannabis? (free text)

Section 3 — Membership and dues

The Guild currently has three membership tiers: Friend of the Guild (free), Community Education Membership ($49/month or $499/year), and Certified Ganjier Membership ($49/month or $499/year). The founding board is considering whether to add additional tiers (student, educator, business, industry partner). See membership/tiers.md.

  1. Which tier are you most likely to fit into? (single select; current tiers listed, with an "other" option)

  2. If additional tiers were offered (student, educator, business), which would interest you? (multi-select)

  3. At what annual dues amount does your current or likely tier feel too expensive to consider? (slider or numeric)

  4. Which is more important to you in dues structure? (single select)

    • Lower dues, fewer included benefits, à la carte add-ons
    • Higher dues, more bundled benefits
    • Sliding scale based on income or business revenue
    • No preference

Section 4 — Programs and benefits

  1. Rank these benefits by how much each would influence your decision to join (rank 1–7):

    • Continuing education credits and member-only training
    • Member directory and referrals
    • Discounted access to events and conferences
    • Insurance, legal, or accounting group rates
    • Code of Ethics and complaint process
    • Advocacy on legislation and regulation
    • Research, white papers, and industry data

  2. How interested are you in volunteering on a committee? (1–5 scale)

    • If 4–5: which committee areas? (multi-select: Education, Ethics, Membership, Events, Advocacy, Communications, Finance & Audit, Nominating)

  3. Would you attend a paid in-person Ganjier Guild conference once per year? (yes / maybe / no)

    • At what ticket price would it become a hard "no"? (numeric, optional)

Section 5 — Governance and trust

  1. How important is each of the following to your willingness to join? (1–5 scale each)

    • Independent board (majority not employees of any one company)
    • Public bylaws and policies
    • Public Form 990 and audited financials
    • Transparent dues and sponsor disclosure
    • Member voting rights on bylaws and dues changes
    • Clear, enforced Code of Ethics with due-process complaint procedure

  2. What would make you decide not to join, even if dues were free? (free text)

Section 6 — Get involved (optional)

  1. May we contact you when the Guild opens for founding membership? (yes / no)

    • If yes: name, email (required to follow up)
    • Optional: organization, LinkedIn URL, phone

  2. Would you like to be considered for: (multi-select)

    • Founding board
    • Founding committee (which one)
    • Charter member roster
    • Sponsor or partner outreach
    • Beta tester for member portal
    • None — just keep me informed

  3. Anything else the proposed Guild should hear from you? (free text, optional)

Required disclosures to include with the live form

  • Who is collecting: Name and contact for the proposal sponsor (administrator) and, post-formation, the Guild
  • Why: Pre-formation research and, with consent, follow-up
  • Retention: How long responses are kept and when contact info is purged if no consent
  • Sharing: That aggregate, de-identified results may be published in the proposal mirror
  • Right to withdraw: Email address to request deletion
  • Link to: privacy notice and the full proposal mirror

Distribution plan (post-formation)

  • Email blast via existing Klaviyo lists where consent permits
  • Posted on the Guild website and pinned to the GitHub README under "How feedback works"
  • Shared with allied professional groups and credential holder communities
  • Open for at least 30 days; results summarized in a follow-up commit and a Decisions ADR