Your Membership Committee Chairman asks, “Did you
miss Summerfest this year and did you miss our club’s post-Summerfest
meeting Monday night? If so, the 50% of the club that attended both
REALLY MISSED YOU! Yes that is right, one half of our members showed up
and worked at our largest fund raiser, Summerfest. That left the always
faithful other half to do all the work.
Active Kiwanis membership means
participating as you can in our club’s community service projects and
attending club meetings as often as you can. Naturally, there are many
valid reasons a club member cannot attend a particular event or meeting
but there is a real difference between being a member and being a Kiwanian,
and that difference is involvement.
Those who attended Monday’s post-Summerfest
club meeting were able to provide some great suggestions to the Membership
Committee as how to encourage greater member participation. These
suggestions included:
·
Event coordinators reaching
out to members who infrequently participate to let them know what they can
do to help us,
·
The Club Secretary
providing a monthly club meeting attendance report to the Membership
Committee,
·
The Membership Committee
personally contacting members whose attendance has slacked off to let them
know they are missed and what activities are planned so they can become
more active,
·
Consider establishing a
calling tree for community service projects whose success requires
additional Kiwanis help to be successful.
It is the club’s hope that these measures
will build greater member involvement and prevent burn out or
disillusionment of our club’s worker bees. If you have additional
suggestions please contact Membership and Education Chair Joe Behson.