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Corporate membership and new membership types
Are you interested in offering new membership types in your club? Robert Fisher, of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, recently described his experience with corporate memberships. Learn how his club applied this new flexibility to increase membership.
Here’s what clubs need to know about corporate memberships and other new membership types:
• Clubs are free to offer alternative memberships of any kind. For corporate memberships, clubs count individuals as members, not the corporations that sponsor them.
• If corporate members pay RI dues, they will be included in their club’s official membership count and receive all the benefits that other active, dues-paying members enjoy.
• Clubs can have special policies for these members’ other financial obligations (club and district dues, meal costs, etc.), attendance requirements, or service expectations, as long as the club bylaws reflect these policies.
Learn more about new options for club flexibility.
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A New Year's resolution for your Rotary club |
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As you prepare for this festive holiday season and reflect on the past year, you may also be thinking about your New Year’s resolution. Many people resolve to improve their health and well-being. Could your Rotary club benefit from a similar exercise? Take the Rotary Club Health Check, an easy online quiz to help your club recognize problem areas and prescribe remedies.
Once you’ve taken the health check, tell us how you did. What challenges will your club address in the new year? Describe your club’s next steps in the Membership Best Practices Discussion Group or write us at membership.minute@rotary.org —you might be featured in an upcoming webinar!
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Membership leads: An untapped resource |
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Stephanie Witkowski, a young professional and Rotary program alumna, is one of the 13,594 people who expressed their membership interest through Rotary’s join and make a difference page in 2015-16. The membership leads program connected Stephanie with the Rotary Club of Honolulu Pau Hana, Hawaii, USA, a local club that fits her schedule and matches her interests.
Rotary’s membership leads program routes prospective members to districts, which in turn try to assign them to clubs that suit their needs. Each week, Rotary hears from about 800 to 1,000 people from all over the world who are expressing an interest in joining. But thousands of them are left unanswered by districts and clubs. These prospective members are an untapped resource that can help clubs reach their membership goals this year.
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Tips for achieving the Presidential Citation |
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The Presidential Citation is an award that clubs can earn by achieving goals in dues payment, membership growth, Foundation giving, humanitarian service, and more. Clubs have a year to earn the citation. Here are a few tips to help you achieve it:
• Check your citation report early and often. To add a report to the quick links on your home page, select the star icon next to the citation report.
• Work with your club to divide the tasks for achieving the citation.
• Don’t wait until the end of the year to set and reach goals. Report accomplishments throughout the year to make sure they are recorded accurately.
• Use resources such as the citation achievement guide and a video guide developed by Rotarians in the western United States.
Also, Rotary Club Central has a new feature: The Members in a Club report now has citation metrics. The report lists Rotary discussion group participants and members who have updated their skills and interests on their My Rotary profile. This information, available on the report’s last page, will track progress toward two citation goals, both for online tool adoption.
Write us at riawards@rotary.org if you have any questions, and leave your tips for achieving the Presidential Citation in our Membership Best Practices Discussion Group.
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Resources & reference
Proud Member window cling - Now available in Italian, Portuguese and Spanish!
Introducing New Members to Rotary: An Orientation Guide
Membership video channel
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Membership Minute is a bimonthly newsletter that provides the latest membership trends, strategies, best practices, and resources to help strengthen membership in your clubs. The newsletter is sent to Rotary coordinators, district governors, district membership chairs, club membership chairs, club presidents and subscribers. Please forward this to anyone who may be interested.
Send questions or comments to membership.minute@rotary.org.
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