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.

Next Meeting

August 19, 2021 6:00 PM