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Skål InternationalFort Lauderdale Palm
Beaches Skål Club of the Year
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CELEBRATING OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY AND OUR 1ST
ANNIVERSARY.
The 1st year as Skål International Fort
Lauderdale Palm Beaches.
The 30th anniversary as a Club in Skål
International. Formerly known as Skål
International Palm Beaches.
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Reasons why Skål International Fort Lauderdale
Palm Beaches should be named Skål International
Club of the Year.
Membership

• Largest increase of new members in North
  America net 24 additional members.
• Largest percentage increase of new members in
  North America 100 increase.
• Results - this placed our Club in the top 25 of
  the largest clubs in North America.

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Congresses Meetings

• Member representation at the Skål International
  Congress.
• Member representation at the NAASC (North
  America Area Skål Committee) Congress.
• Regular membership representation at most SIUSA
  (Skål International USA) Board Meetings. Unlike
  other countries, SIUSA Clubs do not have a member
  on the national committee board.

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Donations

• Contributes annually to the Florimond Volckaert
  Fund. This year our club increased its annual
  donation by 500.
• Made a donation to Richards Run for Life which
  goes directly to benefit Pediatric Sarcoma Cancer
  Research at the Moffitt Cancer Center Research
  Institute.
• Assisted in collecting over 2,500.00 for the
  Broward Gold Coast Down Syndrome Organization,
  along with Airline Sales Marketing Executives
  of South Florida (ASME) and District Airline
  Managers Executive Secretary (DAMES).

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Business to Business

• All members are encouraged to make
  presentations about their companies when they
  have new and interesting information to foster
  Business to Business.
• Has industry guest speakers. One recent
  presentation was covered on the local NBC
  television station.
• Our members have assisted in manning Skål
  booths at several trade shows in the Florida area
• Have our own website www.skalfll.org

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Information
We believe over the last year our club has
effectively demonstrated our dedication to the
principals and goals of Skål. In February of
2006 we received approval to formally change the
name of the Club from Skål International Palm
Beaches to Skål International Ft. Lauderdale
Palm Beaches. In early 2002 we realized that our
Club was not only losing members due to
retirement and relocation but more importantly we
were stymied in our efforts to recruit new
members due to the changing business environment
in the Palm Beach County area. As the travel and
tourism industry changed with the increased use
of the internet and the consolidation of the
airline industry, the majority of potential new
Skål members were now located in the Ft.
Lauderdale area where the airlines and cruise
lines had regional offices.
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It became apparent to us that we had to include
Ft. Lauderdale in the name of the Club and commit
to hosting a significant portion of our monthly
meetings in that area to bring credibility to our
efforts to attract new members. We were
determined not to let the Club gradually decrease
in membership to the point of being de-activated.
The Club made the decision to be pro-active and
aggressively pursue the name change. After a
lengthy process to obtain approval for the name
change we have had tremendous success in building
our membership and enabling all of our members to
realize the benefits that membership that Skål
International has to offer. In conjunction with
the Clubs new name, we introduced several
innovative ideas with respect to encouraging
attendance at monthly meetings including guest
speakers. We are currently holding three meetings
a year in the Palm Beach area, three meetings a
year in the Ft. Lauderdale area and four meetings
a year in the Boca Raton area.  This program
allows our members who are spread between Miami
and Port St. Lucie to attend more meetings. We
also instituted a credit card program to provide
our members with another form of payment.
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Recommendation

• Vote for SKÅL INTERNATIONAL FORT LAUDERDALE
  PALM BEACHES for
• Skål International Club of the Year

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To fellow Skålleagues everywhere Happiness Good
Health Friendship Long Life Skål
Thank you!