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In an email to the Youth & Education Committee Chair, I compared the criteria for Connecticut All-State and All-American as found in the 2017-18 Membership Program PDFs. ——-All-American Leadership Criteria MEMBERSHIP [Jr. Vice] Recruit new and reinstated members equal to 5% of Prior Year Total [4.05] Greater than 50 members on July 1, 2018 [46 … Continue reading 2017 All-State vs. All-American Criteria

In 2016-17, the Veterans of Foreign Wars New Haven Post 12150 earned All-American status. Based on administration, programs, and membership growth we made achieving this honor a commander’s priority goal for the year. So, how did we do it: 1. Administration: We filed our trustee audits, paid our bond, sent in our program reports, and … Continue reading How we earned VFW All-American

By Charles M. Pickett As the VFW New Haven has grown, it has outgrown Gmail for our bulk emailing. We have been using MailChimp to send out the monthly newsletter and draft minutes to our members for over a year and a reminder meeting and event email. Here is how I send out the monthly … Continue reading Email Marketing Service and MailChimp

As the recent past commander, training and establishing clear lanes of responsibility have become increasingly important as new comrades take on new responsibilities. Here is an email I sent the new Jr. Vice. — As Jr. Vice and membership chair, you are responsible for all things membership. It is a big responsibility. Additionally, it is … Continue reading Jr. Vice & Membership Chair

UPDATED (July 20, 2017): Event planning and promotion is a confusing, multi-step process but roughly follows the same workflow every time; but, it takes longer than you think. Here are some notes on what I do (or should do) to better plan and promote events that can be divided into planning, packaging, and publishing.EZEvents (notes): … Continue reading Event Planning and Promotion

At the 2017 state convention, they had a training session after the awards ceremony. They discussed fiduciary duties, duty of obedience, MEMSTATS, reporting of hospital visits. However, there were two items that impacted the forms that we were not doing: – On the top of the program report, put “District 2/ 12150”– Add in travel time … Continue reading Reporting Tips on Connecticut Forms