ARE YOU READY FOR A CHALLENGE?

 

First of all, I want to thank all councils who have successfully increased their membership!  You’ve proven that it can be done!

 

Membership recruitment, however, doesn’t end after your major membership drive.  We still have many women who have not joined the Catholic Women’s league of Canada and, in many cases, they have not been asked.  And so, I issue the challenge: 

If your current membership is -

25 or less, recruit ONE new member;

between 25 and 60 members, recruit TWO new members;

between 60 and 100 members, recruit THREE new members;

over 100 members, recruit FOUR new members.

Of course, MORE would be even better!  As you know, our president Danielle challenged us to achieving an over-all increase of 10% by the end of her two-year term. 

It can be done!  I’m certain that each one of us knows at least one woman in our parish that could be a member; step forward and ask her to join!

When you submit the names of those new members to national office, please note that these are the “CHALLENGE” members.  I will ask Diane Havens to keep a tally so we can know how well we’ve done. We’ll set a deadline date of October 31st for this “Membership Challenge Blitz”.  There’ll be prizes!  Meet the challenge and you could be a winner!  We’ll all be winners as we successfully achieve our 10% increase in membership!

 

Remember April 26th is our day of action for peace and hope.  Invite non-members to the event you’ve planned; it can be their introduction to our sisterhood of faith, fun and fulfillment (and they may well become your “challenge” members)!

 

I’m confident that you are up to the challenge.  Good luck!

 

Velma Harasen

 

 

Update April 21, 2009

 

I have great news to share!  Having just received our March 31, 2009 membership statistics, EVERY province shows an increase in membership compared to March 31, 2008!  A substantial number of councils have met, and surpassed, Danielle’s challenge of a 10% increase!  Ladies, we are on a roll!  I’m really confident that we can reach a minimum of 100,000 members by convention in August.  BUT, we can’t stop now!  Our spring mailing is being received by every parish council and, in my memo to Organization chairpersons, I have issued a challenge asking councils with

 

- 25 or less members,  to recruit at least ONE new member

 

- between 26 and 60 members, recruit at least TWO new members

 

- between 61 and 100 members, recruit at least THREE new members

 

- over 100 members, recruit at least FOUR new members

 

MORE is accepted!!

 

When submitting the names of these new members to national office, it must be noted that these are the ‘CHALLENGE’ members.  National will be keeping track of the numbers.

 

PLEASE keep encouraging membership recruitment and retention, do your best to promote this challenge and ask your diocesan counterparts to do the same. With all of us working together, we can easily achieve a 10% increase, and MORE!