Membership Report to NC Federation of Chapters Board, NARFE

Theron Rumsey, Membership CoordinatorNovember 9, 2010

Travel and Meeting

There was no travel during the second quarter of this reporting year. I continued to assist Paul and Vilma regarding development of a retention plan. On October 13, 2010, I assisted Chapter 156 Public Relations Officer Tom Beatty by presenting the NARFE National PowerPoint presentation introducing NARFE to the AFGE union chapter at the Asheville VA hospital. This connects us with 400+ active Federal employees. It is worth noting that the Secretary of the AFGE chapter is a NARFE member. She gave a very positive testimonial for NARFE.

Membership Reports

The reports are current through September, 2010 and were distributed to the Area VP’s. Thanks to Vilma for assistance with the distribution. The M112’s for October were not available in time for this report.

Membership Summary

An overall picture of our membership status is shown by The ‘Voting Member Summary’ through September This summary showed that at the end of the second quarter this year the NC Federation has a net loss of 95 members. However, this loss of membership included 79 members lost to death or transferring out. This loss has occurred over the past 4 months after a growing trend the first two months this year. Area VP’s, use this report to track the status of chapters in your area. Only a few chapters showed a slight trend toward growth since June: Ashe-Alegany Chpt. 800, Area III; Durham Chpt. 566, Area IV; and Wayne_Goldsboro, Chpt. 1830, Area IV. Let’s strive to make sure that all chapters are utilizing the monthly M112 reports to contact, in particular, those members who have received their second dues notice, or have dropped their membership and are following thru on contacting prospective members.

New Member Recruitment

Recruitment has hurt our growth this past quarter. Last year the Federation average 51 recruited members per month. This quarter we have averaged 19. Although we are emphasizing membership retention, we should not pass up the opportunities for recruiting new members.

Retention

The critical category of membership is those members that choose to drop their membership. As pointed out previously, these folks can make or break an effort to grow membership. Last year’s average for dropped members was 57/month. Thus far this year we are trending above that average 63/month. Chapter leadership should be communicating with those members each month that appear on the M112 list for receiving their second dues notice and those appearing on the Dropped Member list. Encourage them not to drop their membership. Secondly, promote Dues Withholding and do those things that keep members informed. Keep the importance of NARFE obvious.

Let’s grow membership against theNational trend.

YOUR EFFORTS MAKE A DIFFERENCE!!

VOTING MEMBER SUMMARY 2005-2011

2004- 2005- 2006- 2007- 2008- 2009- 2010-2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011

AREA Apr May Jun Jul Aug SepI 988 959 953 938 899 890 890 901 903 901 892 887

33 27 34 28 35 4 5 8 9 9 10

II 928 932 915 909 876 897 905 897 893 885 880 87521 36 27 30 26 2 6 8 10 11 14

III 888 911 886 879 847 868 867 870 876 874 872 86340 19 20 23 19 2 3 4 7 8 10

IV 1394 1429 1452 1473 1442 1446 1442 1442 1441 1446 1434 142846 25 41 36 48 5 7 13 17 19 22

V 1526 1522 1521 1514 1443 1444 1448 1449 1453 1450 1436 142848 50 50 41 46 2 5 9 9 9 10

VI 1179 1156 1108 1073 1009 1000 1015 1013 1000 986 978 96947 21 29 33 39 1 2 9 10 11 13

Total Voting 6903 6909 6835 6786 6516 6545 6567 6572 6566 6542 6492 6450235 178 201 191 213 16 28 51 62 67 79

NEW MEMBER RECRUITMENT BY AREA

2010-2011

AREA Begin Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar New

I 890 7 10 10 2 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 30

II 897 9 4 3 1 5 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 25

III 868 8 10 8 4 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 35

IV 1446 12 17 10 10 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 56

V 1444 17 8 19 6 0 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 56

VI 1000 15 5 6 2 3 3 0 0 0 0 0 0 34

Total 6545 68 54 56 25 17 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 236

RETENTION 2010-2011

Through September, 2010

Total Trans

AREA Begin Apr MayJun Jul AugSep Oct Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Sub/T Total Death Out

I 890 9 18 13 4 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 938 897 10 887 99.66%

Dropped 5 6 8 5 9 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 41 0

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

II 897 14 7 6 3 8 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 941 889 13 875 97.55%

Dropped 4 11 8 9 12 8 0 0 0 0 0 0 52 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

III 868 11 13 14 5 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 921 873 9 863 99.42%

Dropped 10 9 7 4 6 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 48 1

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

IV 1446 15 21 16 17 10 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1534 1450 20 1428 98.76%

Dropped 14 19 11 8 20 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 84 2

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

V 1444 22 13 23 8 4 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 1523 1438 7 1428 98.89%

Dropped 16 9 15 11 18 16 0 0 0 0 0 0 85 3

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

VI 1000 20 6 9 2 5 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 1047 982 9 969 96.90%

Dropped 4 7 15 15 12 12 0 0 0 0 0 0 65 4

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Total Added 6545 91 78 81 39 32 38 0 0 0 0 0 0 6904 6529 68 6450 98.55%

Dropped 53 61 64 52 77 68 0 0 0 0 0 0 375 11