[Artemisia] Artemisia Digest, Vol 126, Issue 13

[Jackman-Brink, Julia]

Suggestions.... Stronger local groups.  We need to start at the ground floor.  Right now we can't hardy get people to volunteer to step up for their own local events or offices, let alone a kingdom one.  If we aren't holding events we lose the biggest "here we are" we have outside of summer practice in the park.  We need more mentoring of our new players.  More contact with potential members when they do make that initial step forward.  Actual follow up from those contacts, with information and communication.  More ground level training and interaction with event staff, offices and officers (show them that serving and being part can be fun).  Seems easy to do, but is apparently very hard to take root. One person can't carry that banner, it has to be everyone with a hand on it or it get dropped.  

New members and membership retention, is where it is at.  You can't rebuild with older members, they've carried that banner (and some for a very long time).  It's the young that will carry it on.  Having goals at being a larger entity is grand, but if there aren't people to do the jobs, hold the events, or answer the phones/email...it's a long hard road...down.  

Juliana


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So what do you suggest?


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 10:59 AM, L.J. Richards <richardslj at bresnan.net>wrote:

> Problems at kingdom level are not solved by principalities - just adds 
> another layer to work through.  Same deal for shires vs. barony.  Lots 
> of organizations across the country are loosing members and having to 
> rethink how they do things and why.  The successful ones have figured 
> out how to 'marry' the previous generation to the next generation.
>
> Bronwen of I.
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