President’s Report
2010 Summer National Council Meeting
St. Louis, MO Items: 1) NFL Update: Please See Attached Document 2) Development Report: We need to begin to get serious about development in preparation for the 2013 Convention. At a minimum, we need to conduct an annual campaign to meet the matching challenge which has been extended to cover the next ten years. We should also consider a special “senior pin” that we can present to graduating seniors at the tournament that includes a gift request. Finally, we should get serious about estate and major gift planning. a) Cookbook Project: the cookbooks are ready to go. They are larger than expected and will cost $14.00 to produce and ship, so we should encourage chapters to retail them for between $25.00 and $30.00.
b) Macy’s and Herberger’s Program: I will re-post information about each of these programs in the Fall key and will also place contact information about them on our social networking sites.
c) Appeal Letters: Please See Attached Documents.
d) Annual Report/Grant Work: Please See Attached Samples. Our annual report should include items such as: 1) A tournament summary and information about the 2011 and 2013 Tournaments; 2) A brief report on new chapters; 3) An item on the Order of Attainment; 4) A summary of research presented at NCA; 5) An eye-catching way of presenting our audited financial information; 6) A summary of the video project, book project and other information from the Historian; 7) A summary of our new communication plan, website, and so forth, including items referencing the online-event we hosted at the NCT; 8) Something about alumni engagement, although I am not sure what shape this might take yet. We can talk about format and there are probably many items that I am forgetting. 3) Website and Graphic Report: a) Website Demo: Link distributed under separate cover. We will run through the demo at the meeting.
b) Graphic Selection/Rollout: We have settled on option 3D. See Attached Schedule and Timeline from StudioNaCL.
c) Credit Card Secure Transaction Capabilities:
d) Social Networking: These sites need to be better utilized and populated with more information, but our Facebook Site and Linked-In site are already embedded in the new website. What other sites should we create? MySpace? 4) Duties of the President: See Attached. 5) 2010-11 Fee Schedule: Menus for the Past President’s Dinner will cost between $25.00 and $32.00. We will have to talk about the video presentation costs for the banquet – this seems to be a very extensive cost that I am not sure we really need. Regardless, we will need to settle upon a fee structure for each of the following: a) Portland Participation Fee:
b) Tournament Fee Schedule:
c) Chapter Dues:
d) Individual Dues: 6) Renewal Letters/ Recruiting Letters: I think we should plan a Fall letter to
every chapter that has not renewed that includes an invitation to view the new website, features the development work we have been doing, highlights our ongoing projects and generally makes a case for renewing membership.
7) St. Louis 2013 Planning
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