As the club year begins to wind down, let's take a few moments to reflect on all that we have collectively accomplished this year ....

Membership

We celebrate the outgoing club Board of Directors and shower them with gratitude for stepping up and taking a leadership role.  Their personal sacrifices have ensured that our clubs have another year of success in impacting the girls and women in our communities.  For the outgoing club Presidents, I hope you take a few moments to relax, but I encourage you to start thinking about a new leadership role at the Region level.  This time next year, we will need leaders like you to bring new ideas and methods to how we operate and serve our members and clubs.  Think on it for a few months 😊 I promise to leave you alone, for now ....

 

Clubs have really embraced our Dreams programs and have committed to the “One Mission” philosophy.  Our region has dramatically increased the number of women and girls served in both the Live Your Dream Awards distributed AND the number of Dream it, Be it events.  I don’t want to spoil the Spring Conference presentations, so you’ll have to stay tuned for our year end numbers!  But job well done ladies!

 

Of course, we couldn’t have increased our impact to the communities without an increase in fund raising.  Clubs have really embraced creative and new approaches to fund raising.  In addition, our participation in Club Giving, Founder’s Pennies and Laurel Society is astounding.  It’s never easy to fund raise, so I applaud all that you do to support this organization!

 

So many of our clubs were recognized this year in local newspapers and radio shows!  That’s a testament to your club level Public Awareness chairs.  I look forward to seeing these efforts written up for the Celebrating Success Awards.  Facebook postings are also up – as demonstrated in the region wide Facebook posting challenge.  The club that had the most “likes” during the challenge will be recognized at Spring Conference.  But, congratulations to all that participated.