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����TFRW Leadership Day�Membership��

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Reach Back

Reach out

Retain

Engage

Renew

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Benefits

      • Become involved in the election process

      • Meet elected officials and government leaders.

      • Become informed – meetings, classes, newsletters, and websites.

      • Training you need to run for office yourself.

      • Participate in community activities and projects.

      • You make friends from all over the county, state, and nation.

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RENEW

  • Begins November 1st

  • Delinquent March 1st

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  • Form a committee
  • Call, email or text members
  • Send out stamped self-addressed envelopes with renewal.
  • Publish application on your website
  • Use social media to promote renewal.
  • Follow up, find out why not renewed
  • Include everyone in mailouts
  • Stress...” WE NEED YOU!”
  • Offer Incentives for renewal
  • Thank them when they renew.

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REACH BACK

  • Review old membership lists.
  • Identify connections
  •  Create a questionnaire. Be ready to listen and have a plan
    • TFRW and NFRW surveys revealed why members did not renew
    • Not asked.
    • Did not feel engaged or welcome.
    • Not at a convenient time –suggest a sister club 
  • Unable to get to meetings/events. Provide carpool?
  • Have ideas for their reasons for not being able to participate
  • Listen and leave invite open

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REACH OUT

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  • Have an identity.
  • Create a club logo and use it
  • Create a Club Business Card.
  • Every member should carry them.
  • Create a brochure or push card
  • share it EVERYWHERE
    • Make available at GOP office
    • Have a stack at all events your club participates in
    • Share with members and other groups
  • Shirts with their logos
    • members wear to events when representing the club.

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  • Talk to everyone you know, share what your club is doing.
  • Your club should have a website with your information and how to contact.
  • your club should have social media sites, all of them and ensure every member likes your pages, and shares your posts.
  • Share the TFRW and NFRW posts from Facebook and Instagram
  • Your meetings and events should be listed on your website and social media
  • Publicize your events through the county GOP, and if possible local newspapers

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  • Invite a friend, neighbor, or acquaintance to come to your club meeting.
  • Sponsor Young Republicans, invite them to become members
  • Think “OUTSIDE THE BOX” for locations to recruit new members:

Gun Shows,

Chamber Events,

Garden Club

  • Share what your club is doing with like minded groups
  • Host a booth at fairs, and events
  • Host a voter registration booth

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  • Mentor a Sister Club for women who might not be able to attend your meetings.

  • Maybe your club is not a good fit for someone you know, help them find a sister club.

  • Every Club in our great state has something to offer.

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RETENTION

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BE WELCOMING

  • Partner visitors with a member to introduce them and assist in questions

  • Create a new member packet
    • bylaws,
    • name tag
    • business cards,
    • calendar of events
    • directory.

  • Develop new member training
    • Go over rules and bylaws
    • TFRW and NFRW structure, history and website
    • A new member lunch with a special guest

  • Acknowledge guests and new members at meetings, and send out a Thank You

  • Welcome new members in your newsletter.

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MEMBERS ARE CRITICAL

  • Make each member feel important a valued member
  • Provide name tags for the feeling of belonging.
  • Listen to your Club Members’ suggestions AND THEIR NEEDS.
  • Encourage members to be involved whether campaigning, working on legislation or community activities
  • Reach out to your members to get actively involved on committees. Many JUST NEED TO BE ASKED.
  • Match their likes and skills to committees
  • Celebrate your members – did they win an award, get appointed to a committee or elected to office.
  • Have meet ups outside of the regular meeting. book club, faith group, campaign work, Wine Wednesday or Coffee Klatch on Saturday mornings.

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Provide Training

  • Have a short training session on how to access the TFRW/NFRW websites, make sure everyone’s log-ins work.
  • Encourage members to actively check the TFRW and NFRW Website
    • Make sure they have checked that can access the sites.
    • Maybe share information from the TFRW or NFRW site that members might enjoy, either at a meeting or in your newsletter.
  • Provide training for members to be involved with Party activities, precinct chairs, election work.
  • Provide information about the Party Rule and Platform
  • Encourage members to attend Party conventions and participate on committees.
  • Encourage member to attend TFRW/NFRW meetings, training and conventions, maybe provide financial support.

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Reinforce TFRW and Club objectives:

    • To promote an informed public through political education and activity
    • To increase the effectiveness of women in the cause of good government
    • To support the objectives and policies of our State and National Federation of Republican Women
    • To work for the election of Republican candidates at all levels of government.
    • To foster loyalty to the Republican Party in order to promote its principles.
  • Reinforce the importance of being a member and WHY.
  • Celebrate your clubs meeting and events on social media with photos and write ups.
  • Monitor meeting attendance

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REWARDS

  • You meet like-minded women
  • Access to elected officials and their campaigns.  

  • You have access to political info in general – if only to get newsletters and emails, you will find out about events and opportunities the general public wouldn’t know about.

  • You gain knowledge and information on important topics.

  • You learn to become a delegate to RPT state convention, crafting platform, and serving on the various committees.

  • You hear about campaign schools and training,
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  • You learn about other volunteer opportunities in your community.

  • You have the clout of numbers behind you,

  • You get real information, not fake news.

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GROWING TFRW

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2023

160 Clubs

11,148 Members

2024-2025 Goals

175 Clubs

15,000 Members

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Uniting Republican Women for Texas

Corrine Miklosh

VP Membership

cmikl01@yahoo.com

214-364-3680

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