Recruiting

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Recruiting Retaining Members to Secure the
Future of Your Coalition

• The Nuts Bolts of Success

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What You Are Doing is HARD!
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Link Membership With Purpose

• Is the purpose of the coalition to inform or
  change behavior?
• Who is the target audience?
• How are members linked with target audience?

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What Causes Change

• Personal
• Relationship
• Professional Life or Development

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CAN YOU

• Sum up your plan in 30 seconds to one minute for
• Business leaders
• Policymakers
• Healthcare Community
• Funders -- Whats different here?

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Cultural Competence A CRITICAL Factor!
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Nurture

• How do you meet, greet, celebrate, recognize,
  network?
• How do you keep the work of the coalition linked
  to the members and/or their organizations
  needs.
• How do you address the organizations competition
  with members and their organizations?
• How do you define, organize and/or make
  accountable the work of the members?

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Work(Rolling Up the Sleeves--Hitting the Streets)

• Who do we ask?
• How do we ask?
• Why DONT we ask?
• Why does someone say YES?
• Why does someone say NO?

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COMMUNICATION

• Who Knows You Did It?

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Questions to Ponder

• Does it make a difference to you how you find
  out?
• Who are our allies?
• Who are the natural tools for sustainability?
• Who is the competition?

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Membership

• What makes a member?
• What should be in a MOA/MOU?
• Mutuality
• Person vs. Organization
• Levels of an organization

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Members The Nuts Bolts

• The Plan Should Say
• What is a member (are there levels of
  membership?)
• Ways to integrate new members who are recruited
  different ways, which includes who orients and
  trains and/or mentors
• What resources are available to develop your
  members knowledge, skills, participation?
• How members work is organized, reported,
  recognized
• How members work is linked with organizations
  plan