Membership Director
Director – Membership Committee
1. Mandate.
- Co-ordinate program to increase membership numbers in Ottawa Chapter
- To work towards a high retention level of our existing members
2. Committee Formation
- A minimum of 4 members is required to handle the volume of follow-up required
3. Summary of Duties Monthly
- Prepare written report for board meetings, and attend monthly board meeting
- Pull membership number information as required and distribute at executive meetings
- Acknowledge new members through welcome letters, via email, and invite to next chapter PD day
- Welcome new members at PD Day events
- Follow-up phone calls to cancelled members ask them why they cancelled and attempt to win them back
Recruiting Program
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- Identify some of the Magi’s and contact the directors of these establishments
- Ask them if they could identify (with or help) who in their organization are not members of Advocis
- Supply them with a copy of our invite letter
- Ask them to copy this letter and personalize it and send off to their non Advocis members to invite them to a free PD Day
- Membership committee contacts those that participated in the PD Day and try to get them to join if they have not done so
New Member Procedure
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- President gets email from National every time a new member joins our local chapter
- President then forwards this email to membership chair and secretariat. Secretariat then sends out a welcome to Ottawa Chapter letter
- Membership Chair keeps an ongoing list of all new members to be used in quarterly e-connection newsletter
Forms
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- Invite letter
- Welcome to Ottawa Chapter letter
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