Members

Recruiting members
You can recruit through flyers, banners, handouts, online social networking groups, and word of mouth. Please see the Marketing section for more information.

Retaining or Keeping members
One of the hardest things about clubs is keeping your club members.
-Order food and have a game circulated around participation.
-Keep things new and interesting by having interactive meetings, like asking what they would like to see this year for an event.
-Create ad-hoc committees or sub-committees for events for members to join and participate.
-Make meetings fun by using an interesting ice-breaker at the beginning of the meeting.
-Make information real by bringing in outside speakers and presenters.
-Give members some visuals by having a screening.
-Do outside-the-meeting activities, like a month-long scavenger hunt.
-Play games where members can win prizes.
-Establish a point system where the top member can be awarded something at the end of the year for attending meetings, events, and joining a sub-committee.
-Create events that take you away from the normal meeting place, like an outing to a local Japanese art exhibition.
-Create events outside of the club that’s fun, like a party or potluck. Screenings are ok as well, but if you use them during the club meetings, a party or potluck might be a good break from them ever so often.