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.