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March Newsletter 
President's Report
Things are stable for your chapter. Your board and your committees are passionate, and they are trying to get all of the work done. Word is getting out and people are showing up to events and joining.
Most of the time.
Board members feel there aren’t as many people attending meetings and events as in the past. A lot of the attendees are regulars and there have only been a few guests; numbers indicate membership has dropped in the past year. Of the guests who attend, several have said it’s a challenge to find out about upcoming events, and when they do, they don’t have enough time to plan to attend those they’re interested in.
Are these obstacles an expectation of running a chapter, or are they something else, something that could be fixed?
How many different activities are involved in running your chapter, and how many systems do you use to manage them?
Having a large number of processes performed by multiple people on numerous systems can lead to:
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Confusing or outdated information on your website
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Repetitive time-consuming work for your board and volunteers
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Delayed communications
These issues are frustrating to your base. Some members are not renewing, and some guests are deciding the challenges are not worth their time, so they’re getting their needs met elsewhere.
An Association Management System (AMS) allows you to update and streamline your chapter’s processes while decreasing the amount of manual work involved, the number of people required, and the time you spend. All of these improvements can send your chapter in the positive direction you need.
Volunteer Opportunities
Is your chapter’s To Do list a long one? Writing weekly blogs for the next six months and getting those posts uploaded? Writing your newsletter and sending out the email every month? Setting up and running your monthly meetings? Managing all aspects of the website?
Perhaps you’ve been looking for help with some of these tasks for months. If your goal is one person for each task, you could be asking too much of your members. In today’s harried environment, many just don’t have the time, or interest, to commit to on-going projects that can take up a lot of their time or require in person participation.
Have you Considered Micro-Volunteering?
