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Great Lakes Region D

Trio of Friends for Fun

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Region D Membership Enhancement

International Couple of the Year

2008-2009

Ken and Rita Moffitt

   
 
 

Hey Y'all!! Let's talk about Membership Enhancement. It covers a wide area and includes Fun, Member Recruitment, Fun, Member Retention, Fun, Activities, Fun, Fund Raisers, Fun, and more. See the pattern here? Everything revolves around FUN. Membership Recruitment isn't any good if someone else in your chapter drops out. Our motto is "Find A Member, Involve A Member, Keep A Member!" If we work on retention, we'll get recruitment. Why? Because, if your chapter is active, having fun, riding, and keeping the members involved, they will keep coming back and they will bring friends! National is revamping the Fun and Activities Guides and we're all working on spreading the fun. Go to this link: http://med.gwrra.org/guides/guides.htm and check out all the useful tools to help spark your chapter and get your members having fun.

 
 


FEATURED CHAPTER OF THE MONTH

Michigan Chapter V-2 educates Girl Scouts on Motorcycle Safety...

Click on featured chapter to view their article

 

Did your chapter do something unique for fun or charity or take a different kind of ride? Did it get a lot of your members involved? If so, send us an email and include a couple pictures, telling us all about it. I don't care what it is. It could be a Corn Maze, or a Hoe Down, or a Poker Run, or a Eating Contest, or Swum Nekkid in Farmer Browns Cow Pond (if you did this, don't send no Polaroid's!), or anything else that really incited member involvement and FUN. We will pick one chapter and feature them for a month in this spot. We all have great ideas, so let's spread them around! We care about you and we want to hear your ideas. STRUT YOUR CHAPTER!

 


 

Membership Enhancement Overview...

 

Currently our Member Enhancement Division covers four main areas. By clicking on a program link it will take you to it on this page.

There have been multiple changes in the available information, i.e. Chapter Shirt and Jacket Competition, Fun and Activities Guide, MEC Duties and Responsibilities, etc. It can all be viewed on the National website.

GUIDES

 
 

Our District Membership Enhancement Coordinators...

 
 

Member Recruiting and Retention Program...

 
 

The "Membership Recruiting and Retention" program is the life blood of our organization. Why you ask? Because without members there is no organization. There have been multiple changes in the available information, i.e. Chapter Shirt and Jacket Competition, Fun and Activities Guide, MEC Duties and Responsibilities. It can all be viewed on the National website.

GUIDES

The following links is a great guide on Retention by Marty Zakrajsek, past National Membership Coordinator along with other important information.

 
 

Couple of the Year Program...

 
 

The most visible part of the Membership Enhancement Division is the "Couple of the Year Program". Beginning at the Chapter level, this is a method of honoring couples for their commitment to the ideals of the GWRRA. After serving as their Chapter Couple they can attend their District's selection process. Later the District Couples may attend the Region's selection process and eventually the Region D Couple can move on to the International Couple of the Year selection process at Wing Ding. As International Couple of the Year and M.E.D. Coordinators, we  encourage all the Chapters to honor your fellow Couples and participate in the "Couple of the Year Program".

 

 
 

 "A Great Way To Recognize Your Chapter Couple or Individual"

 
 

Show appreciation for the Couple and Individual that means so much to your chapter.

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Packet Features...
  • 2 Engraved Medallions for Couple or 1 for Individual

  • 2 Couple-of-the-Year Pins for Couple or 1 for Individual

  • 2 Engraved Name Tags for Couple or 1 for Individual

  • Certificate from Region Membership Enhancement Coordinators

 
 

"Easy-Convenient-Economical"

 
 

We are offering a Couple-of-the-Year packet that will help make your Chapter Couple feel as special as they are.  Custom designed and personalized for the low price of $45.00 (includes shipping). Individual-of-the-Year packets are $20.00.

 

Delivery in 7-10 business days!

To Order...
Download the
Couple Request Form or Individual Request Form and mail your request to:

Address on the forms:

Couple Packet: GWRRA

Individual Packet: Ken & Rita Moffitt

 
   

If you have any questions contact your District Couple of the Year coordinator.

 
 

The following links are pdf files on the program.

Top Ten Reasons To Have A Couple of the Year - Power Point Presentation

"Couple of the Year" Manual (PDF)

 
 

Region D Traveling Plaque...

 
 

This plaque is designed to promote friendship, visitation and fun within the three Districts. We sincerely encourage you to put some mileage on this plaque. Below is the plaque's current location. Region D would also like to announce that there will also be a cash drawing for the Chapter who has captured the plaque the most within the given year of $100.00. Be sure to check out the rules and have FUN.

 

Region D Traveling Plaque Rules

 

 
 

Where is it NOW?

  

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Ohio Chapter B-2

CD's- Tom & Claudette Stanions

Phone: 614-467-4524

Email: stanions@jencospeed.net

 

  • Chapter B-2
    Meets 2nd Thursday
    Bellefontaine JVS
    2280 St. Rt 540, Bellefontaine
    Potluck Dinner 6:00 PM
    Meeting 7:00 PM
  • Chapter Website: http://www.ohb2.org/joomla/index.php

  • Newsletter:  Read More

  • Always contact a chapter representative when making plans to capture the traveling plaque. Although we do our best to keep this information up to date, the plaque location may have changed.

 
  For more information on the Region D Traveling Plaque contact Ken & Rita Moffitt
Email:
Ken and Rita Moffitt Phone: (517) 851- 4788
 
 

Fun Activity Program...

 
  The motto of the GWRRA is "Friends for Fun Safety and Knowledge." First and foremost the GWRRA is a social organization of friends. We have an award-winning Rider Education Division to help with the "safety" aspect. We have a fantastic Leadership Training Division to help with "knowledge". In the Member Enhancement Division we have the "Fun Activities Guide" to cover the "fun". If members aren't having fun, they won't stay on as members of the GWRRA. If we lose them, they lose out on "safety & knowledge". So, there is a guidebook that provides a huge number of ideas on how we can have fun. This is a great tool for the Chapter Directors to use. Carl & Judy Williams authored the Fun Activities Guide when they were National Friendship Coordinators. It's a large document so we have broken it up by sections. These are all PDF files.  
  Fun Activities Guide ( Complete)
Section 1 - Getting Acquainted
Section 2 - Awards
Section 3 - Games
Section 4 - Rides
Section 5 - Region-District-Chapter Challenge