Membership Report d9400

1. MEMBERSHIP D9400
REALITY CHECK
&
A CALL TO ACTION

2. CONTEXT
 CURRENT STATUS
 BEST PRACTICES
 SOLUTIONS
 CALL TO ACTION

3. CURRENT STATUS
 JUNE 2014: MEMBERSHIP 1,480
 JULY 2014: MEMBERSHIP 1,430
 MAY 2015: MEMBERSHIP 1,468
 NUMBER OF CLUBS: 83
# CLUBS MEMBERSHIP
9 Between: 0-7
20 Between: 8-13
23 Between: 14-20
26 Between: 21-30
3 Between: 31-40
2 Between: 41-50
D9400

4. CURRENT STATUS
 Average size for Rotary clubs worldwide: 36 (D9400 - 5 Clubs)
 Women members worldwide: 19%
 Members more than 50 years of age: 71%
 Members less than 40 years of age: 12%
 Rotarians for three or more years: 76%

5. BEST PRACTICES
 Size matters
 Healthy balance between experienced and younger members
 Meaningful and sustainable projects
 Interactive and engaged fellowship and fundraising activities
 Energetic Leadership
 Diversity of professions and gender
 Participation, active committees and shared roles and responsibilities
Thriving Clubs:

6. SOLUTIONS
 Grow your club to at least 30 members.
 Attract younger professionals - they bring an abundance of energy
and new ideas.
 Retain current members.
 Consider joint ventures with other clubs, organisations, companies
and civil society.
 Start a satellite club.

7. SOLUTIONS
 Investigate the potential to merge with another local club.
 Clubs need to ensure that meetings, fellowship programs, and
service projects encourage enthusiasm in its members.
 Establish new Clubs.
 Invest in Interact and Rotaract Clubs.
 Promote “The Rotary E Club of Southern Africa D9400” as a flexible
option for members who might consider resigning due to a change
in their circumstances.
 AND…….

8. ENGAGE GENERATION Y
WHO ARE GENERATION ‘Y’?
Silent Generation Baby Boomer Generation X Generation Y
1925-1945 1946- 1963 1964-1978 1979-1995

9. ENGAGE GENERATION Y

10. ENGAGE GENERATION Y
56%they are 56% of the current workforce and are highly
skilled and trained.
And just like the Baby Boomers,
Gen Y is a large group of people that is IMPACTING society

11. GENERATION ‘Y’ ATTRIBUTES
LESS
 Respectful
 Length of attention span
 Politically engaged
 Patient
 Politically skilled
 Formal & don’t value tradition
 Loyal to organisations
 Confidents
 Energetic
 Connected
 Ambitious & career agile
 “Techno-savvy”
 “Can do” & open to change
 Loyalty to networks & people
MORE

12. Generation Y
Would You Like
to Know More?

13. IT’S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

14. IT’S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
You have
 Experience
 Structure
 Awareness
 Community
 Introspection
 Face time
 Social connection
They bring
► Energy
► Skills
► Attitude
► Creativity
► Innovation
► Facebook
► Social media

15. IT’S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY
Its about……

16. IT’S NOT ABOUT TECHNOLOGY

17. CALL TO ACTION
►Invite Generation Y to join Rotary.
►Connect Generation Y beyond your Club.
►Connect them with Rotarians who do what they love, or something
related to it. Passion supports passion.
►Assign a Rotary Mentor to Generation Y.
►Get use to it. Generation Y will not always be at your Club.

18. THE FUTURE OF ROTARY IS IN GOOD HANDS

19. “
”
The strength of Rotary is its ability to
attract and energize
talented people who believe in its
underlying values—people like you.
Paul P. Harris
Paul Harris was 37 when
he founded Rotary International.

20. THANK YOU
Annemarie Mostert
Membership Chairperson D9400
June 2015