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Membership Committee
Membership Committee
Membership Committee Charge: This committee is responsible for maintaining and increasing Organization membership by actively identifying and contacting potential members.
2009 Goals and Objectives:
- Encourage membership and potential new members to attend the annual meeting.
- Contact members/co-workers to encourage participation.
- Regional contacts forward meeting announcement to contacts from their respective region.
- Travel Grants.
- Determine the number of grants available.
- Seek applications.
- Award grants.
- Establish and Maintain active Regional Contacts.
- Regional contacts create and maintain a comprehensive list of contacts by region, stored on the portal for annual use
- Serve as first point of contact for OFWIM members within their respective region.
- Encourage non-members attending the annual meeting to join OFWIM.
- Include a Benefits of Membership information page with all non-member registration receipts. Information page would invite them to join the organization and educate them on the benefits of membership.
- Maintain individual membership renewals from previous year to current year.
- Send a reminder email to the membership at the beginning of the year to encourage members to renew their memberships for the current year.
- Support members willing to do outreach at local/regional/national meetings on behalf of OFWIM.
- Provide the member with OFIWM poster and brochures.
Conduct a focused membership drive every 3-years to increase Organizational Memberships and pick up new potential members that may have joined organizations within the last 3-years.
- Targeting specific organizations that have not been organizational members in the past to become Organizational Members. These include state fish and wildlife agencies, federal agencies, and NGOs.
- Send out letters and brochure to appropriate contacts across the nation.
- Regional Outreach members will make follow-up phone calls.
2009 Membership Committee Members:
Chair: Kristin Rogers - kristin.rogers (AT) MyFWC.com
Vice Chair: Lisa Zolly - lisa_zolly (AT) usgs.gov
Robin Carlson
Yan Hong (Midwest Region Contact)
Julie Prior-Magee (West Region Contact)
Keith Wethington (North Region Contact)
Lila Wills (South Region Contact)
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