Shriners International IT IS “FEZtastic” TO BE HERE!!

Shriners International

IT IS “FEZtastic”

TO BE HERE!!

MEMBERSHIP SUCCESS

ARE YOU WILLING TO PAY THE PRICE??

THE ANSWER HAS TO BE

YES!!

CHANGE OUR ATTITUDE

THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX

WORK HARDER FOR MEMBERSHIP

VEGETARIANSMY FOOD POOPS ON YOUR FOOD

9,328 MEMBERS DEMITTED/ NPD

Year Start 192,859

Initiations 2,652

Restorations 2,103

Suspensions/ 7,807 Demits

Deaths 7,692

Year End 182,142

Net Loss -10,717

DOWN over 2008 (-375)

UP Over 2008 +1008

UP over 2008 + 268

Down over 2008 (-65)

Down from 2008

DOWN over 2008 (-373)

2009

IS YOUR VALLEY DOING ITS PART?

ARE YOU WORKING FOR MEMBERSHIP IMPROVEMENT?

MEMBERSHIP IMPROVEMENT

EXPECTATIONS

GOALS

RESULTS

MEMBERSHIP IMPROVEMENT

Webster’s Dictionary

EXPECTATION

The anticipation of an occurrence or outcome

Webster’s Dictionary

GOAL

The end toward which effort is directed

Webster’s Dictionary

RESULT

“A consequence or conclusion”

BELIEVE

YOU CAN!!

Henry Ford

“If you think you can – you can. If you think you can’t -you’re

right.”

Thomas Edison

“If we did the things we are capable of we would astound

ourselves.”

IDENTIFY IMPORTANT AREAS

DEVELOP QUALITY PROGRAMS

IMPLEMENT PROGRAMS

MEASURE SUCCESS

IDEAS

Valley Dues

TODAY – 500 MEMBERS

$75 / year

Valley Dues

2020 – 250 MEMBERS

$200 / year

Per Capita Tax

WILL CERTAINLY

INCREASEIN THE YEARS AHEAD!!

Valley Dues

2020 – 250 MEMBERS

$250 / year

FINANCES - FUTURE Expenses will continue to RISE

Revenues will DECREASE unless dues are INCREASED

Loss of membership because of dues increases

WHAT’S NEEDED????

IMPROVEMENT BY EVERYONE

NO EXPECTATIONS

NO GOALS

FEW RESULTS

Up until NOW

EXPECTED IMPROVEMENT

INITIATIONS – SUSPENSIONS

RESTORATIONS

MENTORIING

REWARDS

NEED 5 YEAR PLAN

THE PLAN WILL WORK

IF

YOU BELIEVE IT WILL WORK!!

KEM SHRINERS MEMBERSHIP

1,138 1,120 1,1011,057 1,069

1,133

1,212 1,226 1,238 1,241 1,245 1,252 1,254 1,2561,286

1,3551,407

1,4991,467

1,248 1,212

1,5621,674

0

500

1,000

1,500

2,000

1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Mem

ber

ship

GOLD

MEMBERSHIP AWARD

Lower Delaware

Aroostook

Middletown

MEMBERSHIP AWARD

What about the rest??

100 VALLEYS

Yogi Berra

“You got to be careful if you don’t know where you are going

because you might not get there.”

Thomas Jefferson

“I am a great believer in luck and I find the harder I work the

more I have of it.”

THE SILVER BULLET

SILVER BULLET

BLUE LODGE RELATIONS•Know your Grand Master and support him

•Attend Lodge regularly

•Shared activities that are designed to build trust

•Offer Scottish Rite program at lodge

•Send monthly communication to area lodges from Valley

•Appoint Masonic Lodge Ambassadors from Valley

Membership Essentials

•Recruitment

•Retention - Mentoring

•Restoration•Blue Lodge Relations

•Philanthropy Story

•Technology

MEMBERSHIPMEMBERSHIP

IT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF EACH AND EVERY

MEMBER TO BE A PART OF THE VALLEY MEMBERSHIP

EFFORT!!

Membership Development Recruit quality men of good character

who support family, community, and country

There are 1.5 million Masons in United States – only approx 30% of them are Scottish Rite Masons

Expose Scottish Rite quality values,

features and benefits to these men

THE TIME IS NOW!! LESS than 185,000 members in

Northern Jurisdiction

Losing many of our old good members

MUST COMMIT TO MEMBERSHIPManpower – Money – Time - Programs

THE FUTURE OF SCOTTISH RITE

IS IN YOUR HANDS

MUST RECOMMIT TO MEMBERSHIP

MUST DO EVERYTHING NECESSARY

FAILURE IS NOT AN OPTION!!

THE FUTURE OF SCOTTISH RITE

IS IN YOUR HANDS

GREAT ORGANIZATION

SHARE IT WITH OTHERS

TELL YOUR PHILANTHROPIC STORY

CAN YOU DO IT??

IS IT WORTH IT??

Membership

is

HARD WORK!!

GO HOME –

ICE YOUR MEMBERS

GOOD

LUCK!!