Extension

How To Get Things Started

Select a target community for a new club
Select and train team members
1. Train Team Members
2. Use Community Needs Assessment Form from LCI to find issues that resonate
3. Teach how to ask for money
4. Assemble brochures and membership applications from LCI
5. Assign duties to team members
  1. Team Leader
  2. Meeting Location Coordinator
  3. Printing and Flyers
  4. Follow-up Coordinator
Identify meeting locations
1. Select time and date for meeting - preferably within two weeks from starting date
2. Prepare flyer showing time, date and location
Begin calling
1. Identify and meet with community spokesman (i.e. mayor, Chamber of Commerce Director, etc.)
2. Bring team to town (preferably Monday - Thursday)
3. Ask for referrals at every meeting
4. Ask for check!!!
Keep list of prospective members
1. Follow up meeting with call
2. Call to remind prospective member of organizational meeting
Plan organizational meeting
1. Set up room - prepare for no more than you have confirmed with follow up calls (allow room to expand)
2. Prepare agenda to distribute
3. Line up videos if appropriate
4. Lion up speaker for outline of Lionism
5. Ask them to join!!!
Organizational meeting
1. First meeting you should have at least 10 prospective members
2. Introduce Guiding Lions
3. At first meeting set time and date for second meeting - should be within two weeks
4. Ask each prospective member to bring at least one more person to the next meeting
5. By the second meeting try to set date for Charter Night
Follow up
1. Re-confirm meeting site
2. Contact all prospective members by phone before second meeting
3. Circulate in community for more referrals
4. Start planning for Charter Night
5. Plan elections of officers as soon as possible
6. As soon as you have 20 members with checks in hand, fill out paperwork and submit charter application to Lions Club International
Turn over club to new members as soon as possible

Congratulations!!!

You have just brought the Lions to a new community!!