Create Multi-faceted Plan to Engage Members

Our team ramped up member engagement activities this year, including:

New member celebrations centered around interactive activities that highlight members' special interests, careers, backgrounds; 

Club assembly where directors' dynamic and fun stories successfully recruited members' commitment with "volunteer bucks" members had to spend on specific areas of service;

Cards/texts, emails to members who miss meeting;

Blast text messages for updates, reminders, announcements;

Face-to-face meetings with members who are not actively involved to ask them to fill a specific role on a project team;

Directors recruiting new members to their area of service based on members' interests surveys, creating more robust teams;

President recognizing members whose efforts are extraordinary with mug awards--specific themed mugs or drink bottles--such as Auction Queen, Chaos Coordinator, Master Chef, Best Volunteer, etc.--are presented at regular meetings;

Encouraging members to participate in the  new "Touching Base" program through which members use texts, emails, or phone calls at the frequency requested by a person who may be recently widowed, recovering from surgery or treatment, or indicates a need for connection;

Sharing photos of members at work and/or play in pre-meeting PowerPoints, highlighting photos from the previous week's projects, socials, events, or community activities;

Assigning members to serve as greeters at each meeting and event;

Expanding  "back table" support with help to pay dues, update info, share information, ask questions.

The result of these and other efforts: members are engaging more, building stronger relationships, working together in meaningfulyl ways at meetings, service projects, socials, fundraisers, and other events.