By Charles M. Pickett The national VFW Membership Department supports the mission of the organization by hosting webinars, focused on topics such as retention, processing applications, and validating qualifying overseas service. Prospecting was the topic of the December 2015 webinar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5mvghuehA&list=PLS17GMBrjUlatKGz__QdpAoUHnXAvaPXi&index=11). It is something I give a lot of thought to because there is an oversized … Continue reading VFW Membership Training Videos: Prospecting

 Trustees shall not be eligible to serve on committees or as officers whose books, records and accounts are audited by the Trustees. Among the duties of the three (3) elected Post Trustees, they shall:  a. At least monthly, review the Monthly Report of Receipts and Expenditures of the Post Quartermaster. b. Not later than the … Continue reading VFW Post Trustees

By Charles M. Pickett In any organization there are members. In the VFW they are comrades, which sounds Bolshevicky (to borrow from Steinbeck). But in my brief time in the VFW, I recognize membership is qualified by participation: active members passive members supporting members inactive members members in good standing engaged members re-engaged members ghost … Continue reading Members, Adjectives, Victimization, Opportunities

by Charles M. PickettPublic Relations VFWNewHaven.org looked dated. Built using legacy Adobe GoLive software, it made  a good postcard site and had a good amount of content (photos, PDFs, events).  It did the trick during the start-up phase but it was time to step it up. In this visual age, presentation is increasingly important in … Continue reading VFWNewHaven.org 2.0 and Internet Applications