Update for May Board Meeting
Treasurer volunteer (to run at the end of our current terms in office): Rob
Membership Secretary
John’s been “acting” secretary for many months, and I need to stop acting. ;-)
Workload:
Most work is automated by our membership system (Wild Apricot), but there are typically 3-5 emails to answer each month.
Also, each member whose dues expire transitions automatically to associate status. Although the membership status/level is updated automatically, we must manually update their associate member expiration year—the only routine transaction not automatically handled by our system. These updates take about 30 seconds per member and involve about 5-15 individuals monthly.
Chairperson of Volunteers
Why do we need this?
Because only a handful of people routinely do the lion’s share of work for MWSA (this is a typical problem for any volunteer organization).
We’re burning out the “usual suspects” mentioned above.
Frankly, “care and feeding” of volunteers is one of the most important jobs that MWSA should have.
No board member has volunteered yet; I’d rather recruit from our board than try to get a volunteer by begging our general membership (which almost never works).
Possible Duties (to get us started)
Manage existing efforts and suggest systems for:
Volunteer jobs. This usually means coordinating with existing chairs (awards, IT, Dispatches, Ambassadors, etc.).
Recruitment of new volunteers.
Recognition and retention of existing volunteers.
Initial Entry (March 2025)
It’s never too late to start looking for the “next generation” of leadership.
Hugh has let us know he’s not running for another term as our treasurer.
I will probably not want to continue as president after my current term.
As much as I had to beg Val to stay on as VP after taking over as president upon Jim’s resignation, I wouldn’t be surprised if she were ready for a break in the action as well.
I’m mentioning the above so we can all imagine what we’d like to happen going forward.
Chairperson of Volunteers? Any volunteers?