July 13, 2021 - Membership

Committee Members

• Paula Pankratz
• Jai Chauhah
• Steve Owens
• June Huie

Members

• James Lancaster
• Rustin Atkeisson
• Dean Day

Agenda

• Member Numbers
  • This Month 29 new members with 7 new members in the past 7 days
  • 100 new members year to date
  • Total active members 390
  • James is pulling member counts daily, and will provide link to this info to the committee

• Scholarships
  • Currently we have 3 scholarship members (2 6-Month and 1 Monthly). These members have not gone through orientation, and therefore not really active members
  • We need to discuss with finance to see what funds there are for scholarships
  • Currently there is no active scholarship committee, so control and review is falling on Membership Committee
  • Discussed requirements for eligibility … maybe teaching classes or volunteering

• Member Communications
  • Joe Pajor has been given read-only admin access to WildApricot so he can follow up with members
    • Follow-up will be done for new members who have not went through orientation
    • Will also follow-up with members who have lapsed memberships to see what reasons we are losing members and see if we can resolve the issue with them
    • Possibly reach out to Maker Monday attendees who have not joined yet
    • Eventually may reach out to existing/badged members who have not gone through orientation

• Recruiting Brainstorming
  • We discussed possibilities on how to bring in more members
    • Recruitment Events geared towards specific companies/groups
    • Carnival/Festival like Fall Fest, Watermelon Feed, Ice Cream Social
      • If we do any event we would need to search for sponsors and donors as we do not really have funds to cover costs
      • Reach out to other committees and areas to put together festival attractions
  • Area leads offering events
  • Ren Faire (Renaissance Fair) Sept 25-26 https://www.greatplainsrenfest.com/
  • Jai will work on listing with Wichita on the Cheap as well as continue to post on KMUW Event Calendar. Would really like Communications Committee to run with this.

• Tri-fold Pamphlet
  • We still need to finalize this and get it printed
  • Possibly put out the current pamphlet and go back to redesign before printing more

• Maker Monday and Orientation Format
  • Had a good discussion with James regarding the current format and possible deficiencies. James will work on documenting his concerns to provide to the committee for further review.