Remember this option for expanding your roster.
By Tony Knoderer
For every Kiwanis club, new members are a lifeline to the future — both for the community and the club itself. That’s why it’s important to think creatively about who can be a member. Could your club use a little flexibility when it comes to making membership appealing?
Don’t forget corporate memberships! At your club’s next meeting, encourage fellow members to discuss this option, which allows a company or organization to join as a member. You might even suggest that members work together to make a list of three to five candidates — and then contact them to start the recruiting process.
Here’s how corporate membership works:
- The company is represented at meetings and events by an employee of the company’s choosing.
- The company can also choose to pay membership dues or ask the designated employee to do so.
- If the designated employee changes jobs, a new employee can be designated to take his or her place without being charged a new member fee.
- There is no limit to the number of memberships a company can have. (Each membership must have a specific person designated by the company.)
- A designated employee is welcome to invite other, nondesignated employees — as well as friends, family and others — to join the club or attend a meeting.
Of course, this option is also excellent for nonprofit organizations. For any organization in your community, it’s a chance to do good for local kids — and to benefit from the connection to Kiwanis.
Don’t forget: Kiwanis International offers an insert regarding corporate membership that fits our “Join Us” brochure — so people in your club can pass along the information above and more to any company or organizational representatives you meet with.
The brochure and insert are free. They’re available on this Kiwanis Family Store page — along with other inserts that appeal to potential recruits’ specific interests.