[NFBV-Historic-Fredericksburg] Fwd: [NFBV-Announce] February 9 Member Recruitment & Retention Training Seminar in Tysons Corner

Sat Jan 18 15:08:24 UTC 2020

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Good morning everyone,

Below is a invitation to a membership recruitment workshop. It will take place on February 9 at 12 PM located at Tysons corner. I believe Fredericksburg will profit greatly from the information that will be shared at this meeting. If anybody is planning on attending Washington seminar, and Would not mind adding an extra day to their volunteer workload, I would greatly appreciate somebody from our chapter attending this workshop. The details are below, and it looks very inviting. I am still away on family business and will not be available to attend this meeting myself, so I am imploring any member of our chapter 2Take the opportunity to help improve Fredericksburg and forward the Federation Movement in our local area.

If you do decide to attend the workshop, you will be asked to share your experience, insights, and any practical tips that will help our chapter grow at February chapter meeting.

Please let myself or our vice President Jessica Reid know if you are planning on attending. The chapter can help with reimbursements in this area. Thank you in advance to anyone who volunteers.

Sincerely,

Brittany Ingram; Fredericksburg president
Phone number: (540) 940-4833
Email address: Brittany.e.crone at gmail.com

> From: "tracy.soforenko--- via NFBV-Announce" <nfbv-announce at nfbnet.org>
> Date: January 17, 2020 at 11:03:19 PM EST
> To: Nfbv-announce at nfbnet.org
> Subject: [NFBV-Announce] February 9 Member Recruitment & Retention Training Seminar in Tysons Corner
> Reply-To: tracy.soforenko at gmail.com
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> Like you, The National Federation of the Blind   has had a tremendous impact on my life. Growing the Federation is key to helping others share in the gift that is our movement.
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> However, each of our chapters and divisions can improve in our efforts to recruit, educate and retain members. This is why we have developed a seminar focused on answering the following questions:
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> How do I effectively recruit new people to learn more and join our chapter or division?
> How do we teach people what it means to be a member, about the Federation and our positive philosophy on blindness?
> How do we convince people to keep coming back and become active members of our organization?
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> If these questions speak to you, please join us on Sunday, February 9 in Tysons Corner for a seminar featuring Anil Lewis, Executive Director for Blindness Initiatives, National Federation of the Blind. Before joining our national leadership team on staff in Baltimore, Anil served as an extremely successful President of the Georgia affiliate. During his tenure in Georgia, the affiliate and its chapters experienced tremendous growth and success. Together, we will learn how to bring this success to our organization in Virginia.
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> Anil and others will share their techniques and you will participate in numerous interactive exercises to grow your capacity to recruit and retain Federation members. This is an event you will not want to miss.
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> This seminar will be held on the Sunday afternoon (2/9) prior to our 2020 Washington seminar.
> It will be held immediately following a Project RISE and national mentoring weekend event at the Westin Tysons Corner in Falls Church Virginia. This is the same location we held our August 2019 Board of Directors meeting and will be the site of our 2020 National Federation of the Blind of Virginia State Convention.
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> Exact timing and meeting rooms are still being worked out, but we have a few details that we can share right away.
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> Lunch will start around 12:00 or 12:30 and the meeting will be over between 4:00 PM and 4:30 PM.
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> Boxed Lunch - If you will be attending, we are offering a boxed lunch at a very subsidized rate of $10 per person. We need to know that you wish to participate in the lunch by Friday, January 24. The hotel is offering a meat and a vegetarian option. We did not get more specifics on the sandwiches so we can’t answer your specific lunch requests. Boxed lunch orders are made by contacting Sandy Halverson. Please state meat or vegetarian when you place your order. You are not required to order a lunch to attend but you are required to tell us if you are attending in advance.
> Hotel Rooms – If you are coming for Washington Seminar and are staying for our legislative appointments on Tuesday or Wednesday, we recognize that coming Sunday might mean another hotel night for Sunday evening. We have secured a $89 plus taxes room rate at the Westin Tysons Corner. We need to know if you wish a room by Friday, January 24 since this is the cutoff date for room reservations. Room reservations will be booked by contacting Sandy Halverson, not the hotel. The reservations desk at the hotel will not know about our room block and will not be making reservations.
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> If you are coming, we need to know by Friday, January 24 at Noon.
> Call or email Sandy.
> sjh300 at outlook.com
> 703 379-1141
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> If you have additional questions about the program, please contact Sandy Halverson
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> Growing our membership is vitally important to our movement and we know it is important to you. If financial assistance is needed to participate in this program, do not hesitate to contact Tracy Soforenko to discuss financial assistance.
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> Sandy will be providing more details on the seminar at our board of directors meeting on Monday, January 20. For our membership efforts to be successful, we need you to invest in helping us all to grow our capacity to build the Federation. We look forward to your participation.
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> Tracy Soforenko
> President, National Federation of the Blind of Virginia
> 202 285-4595
> Tracy.soforenko at gmail.com
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