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Chapter Submitting: Warroad Area
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Held in a garage that was decorated for the event.
Members and their sweethearts and prospectives were invited to come in costume.
Pizza was served. A bubble gum blowing contest, hula-hoop contest, Lip-sync contest
and best costume contest were held.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Summary: This m-event is perfect for teams of members, perspective members, or families. One of the suggestions that the MMC has heard is to get families involved. Madelia did this as a family event and it was a blast. It includes the clues we used in our race with additional suggestions. You will need to rewrite the clues so they match your town and what stops you choose.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Summary: This m-event is modeled after the favorite TV show and is a lot of fun. The attached script has the questions/answers and all of the props needed. You can invite a 5th grader to be the star or improvise with your DD or chapter president. Even if you have not seen the TV show, the script has all the info you need to run a successful m-event.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Life is so uncertain, eat dessert first! This M-event is complete with invites and instructions to hold a backwards party. Plan everything backwards from serving dessert, then the meal, then the appetizers to doing the door prizes first, saying hello to everyone as they leave. Have fun with this backwards idea! If you choose not to do a BBQ, then just call it a Backwards Bash or come up with a new name.
Chapter Submitting: Brooklyn Park
Members Needed: As many
as we can
Estimated Cost: none
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: We get together at a members home before National
Night Out. Each member brings part of the meal. We cook hamburgers and hot dogs
and have a great picnic meal. After we are finished eating and socializing, we
head for Brooklyn Blvd. for the National Night Out Light Up the Boulevard at 10:00 p.m.
Chapter Submitting: Mankato
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This was to provide an opportunity for members and
prospective members to socialize while orientating the prospective member to WT.
WT monopoly was played. If a person landed on a square, they had to explain what
that area was all about. After the game blizzards were made and enjoyed.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as you can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Bunco is a fun dice game that few or many can play. This is great for a social or m-event. All the instructions you need are attached.
Chapter Submitting: Detroit
Lakes
Members
Needed: Everyone
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Family Party that has a Caribbean theme, held in
January. Games for the kids, music, prizes, food, magic & dance. Cost and
time depends on what you get donated and how much extra entertainment you want.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Summary: This event is fun and easy to do. Enjoy a bowl of soup and bring Chicken Soup books and take turns reading stories. You could also send out an instant soup packet with the invite.
Chapter Submitting: Richfield
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: All foods had a corn theme (corn nuts, corn chips,
popcorn, etc.) Two games played: (1) A jar of unpopped pop corn was passed, person
guessing closest to actual number in kernels won. (2) "Corn" related sounds were
replayed on a tape recorder, person getting the most correct answers won. (sound
used rustling of corn stalks, peeling corn, opening a can of corn, popping corn).
Chapter Submitting: Richfield & Janesville
Members
Needed: All who want to attend
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours:
unknown
Summary: Plan a service with a variety of readings and songs
to share as a fellowship for your chapter. We met at a members house on a Saturday
morning for breakfast and a socializing period, followed by a program dealing
with women and their place and role in society. This was very informal, but interesting
and informative session and gave those who attended a better knowledge of each
other.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members
Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours:
unknown
Summary: This combines a great membership/recruitment piece to a fun m-event. After contacting your local food shelf to see what items are most needed, groups go door to door to collect for your local food shelf, concentrating on the items most needed by the food shelf. Included in the attached pdf file is also a Women of Today information sheet that can be left at the house to recruit for your local chapter.
Chapter Submitting: Detroit
Lakes
Members
Needed: 2-all
Estimated Cost: none
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Held during Family Week - Just a night out for members
and spouses held at a local church to play games, goodies & gab.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members
Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours:
unknown
Summary: You ask your guests to bring bananas with them for this fun M-Night Event. This is an easy to plan event and excellent for an extension. There is a script in the sample handouts that will lead you through the event. After playing a little “game” with the bananas, you make banana splits!
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members
Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours:
unknown
Summary: This m-event has a lot of flexibility; you could make a flower or herb garden, invite in a local nursery or florist or plant seeds for the next growing season. Everything you need to run this m-event is attached.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as you can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Use this fun activity for an informational meeting, m-event or just some fun at a social. Members pick 24 items from their purse and put on a bingo card. As the items are called, they take the items off the card. Any 5 blanks in a row are BINGO!
Chapter Submitting: Austin
Members Needed: At least 5
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Decorate Hawaiian style. Door prizes provided. Had
banana splits and had a banana eating contest. Played games of musical chairs
to Beach Boys music.
Chapter Submitting: Janesville
Members Needed: As many
as possible
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Make new holiday cards out of old cards and give
them to the area residents at nursing homes.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as you can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Attached is all you need to make beer bread mix; attach the recipe and you have a great gift for the holidays or easy bread to make with soup!
Chapter Submitting: Hallock
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: All persons in attendance dressed pregnant! Refreshments,
h'ordeuvres served. We have had a great success with this project. Eight members
have joined over the years.
Chapter Submitting: Detroit
Lakes
Members
Needed: 3-4 committee
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: A social with little prep and lots of fun. Daughters
and mothers or friends, or step-mom, or neighbor attend and all wear hats. An
Easter theme for decorations and food. A women from the local Historical Society
did a program on the history of hats.
Chapter Submitting: Stewartville
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: $50
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This is a great get together for WT members and
their children. We have a chairperson and committee who decide the menu. After
we eat we have a candy hunt for the children.
Chapter Submitting: Mankato
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: An informal orientation for prospective members
and all new members signed this year was the purpose of this project. The menus
were TV shows that they had to select and a food was assigned according to the
show. Followed with an orientation about WT.
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Chapter Submitting: Stewartville
Members Needed: 3
Estimated
Cost: none
Estimated Hours: 2
Summary: During Kids Week, we have a potluck supper, followed
by a hay ride at a member's farm. It is a great time!
Chapter Submitting: Thief
River
Falls
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated Cost:
unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Postcards are mailed to prospective members two
weeks in advance. The person that submitted that name called them to offer a ride.
The game is put on a large piece of paper. The rules of pictionary are followed.
After the game a member gives an orientation on WT along with handouts. This project
seems to bring the inactive WT members out of the woodwork.
Chapter Submitting: Owatonna
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This was held with the regular membership meeting.
A treasure hunt with hidden clues was decided on. Five different menus were prepared
with individuals needing to solve a clue, to find the coin before receiving each
menu item.
Chapter Submitting: Champlin
Members Needed: 6-?
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Send invites to prospective members and current
members. Have everyone dress in tacky polyester outfits and bring their favorite
pizza topping. Be sure to have enough cheese, sauce and crust covered in advance.
Open with some kind of mixer. Assemble pizzas & enjoy. After dinner have a
brief period to talk about WT. Give prize for best or worst outfit.
Chapter Submitting: Richfield
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: One of our members has a pool and we had a pool
party for members and prospective. Had potluck and spread the event by word of
mouth. All in attendance said they would love to do this again.
Chapter Submitting: Richfield
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: $7-$8 per person
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This project gives spouses a chance to meet each
other. Members donate their houses for the evening. Members sign up to bring the
"side dishes" and the committee supplies the "main meal". There is a charge to
cover the costs of the meat/potatoes. Entrees/snacks are served at one house for
30-40 minutes, then everyone goes to the next house for salads, then onto the
third house for the main meal and dessert.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Denise Crumrine)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated
Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and invitation available
Summary: This is an excellent M-Night Event for an extension or a social where you have a lot of people with little knowledge of WT. There is a script in the sample handouts that you will ask for items that prospectives would have in their purse and tie it into areas in Women of Today. Contact Jane at for more information.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Summary: This is a new idea sweeping the US. Invite your friends to bring like new purses and/or accessories. Then come up with a fun way to swap/shop for new items. Attached is a guide including an invitation and instructions for holding your own purse/accessory swap.
Chapter Submitting: Austin
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Everyone brings their favorite shoes, you must have
a story about them. Shoe BINGO and prizes were shoelaces and "tootsie" rolls and
socks. Drank wine and ate cheese and crackers and dessert.
Chapter Submitting: Hallock, Owatonna & Stewartville
Members
Needed: unknown
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Divide into teams. Add new twist to the routine
scavenger hunt: on St. Patrick's Day, hunt for green things; on Valentine's Day,
hunt for romance items, etc. Invite prospective members. serve refreshments at
a member's home following the hunt. Another example of a non-traditional scavenger
hunt is to include a list of items in the newsletter that members need to bring
to the next membership meeting. Prize awarded to the member with the best items!
Chapter Submitting: Cloquet
Members Needed: 4 to plan
40 to attend
Estimated Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Chartered a bus to the Mall of America. Membership
fun and a joint social with Moose Lake.
Chapter Submitting: Granada
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Chapter president's husband wore a gorilla costume
and hid in the woods. Members had a bonfire, socialized and had supper. Participants
were taken down a trail to the woods with a flash light and a sack. They were
instructed on "How to catch a Snipe" (Bang sticks together, hoot to scare it out,
leaders found the gorilla and lead him towards the hunters). Person who catches
the "snipe" receives a prize.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated
Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This is a fun and easy m-event. Provide as many innovative food items that would be great on a stick dipped in chocolate. Use crock pots, fondue pots or chocolate fountains and invite your guests to be creative and try a new twist. Decorate with a fair theme and make your own State Fair!
Chapter Submitting: Thief River
Falls
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated Cost:
unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This was held at the Elks Club. It was open to the
public and was advertised and promoted in the newspaper. Articles presenting the
speaker were featured. Members provided snacks to enjoy following the speaker.
Chapter Submitting: Emmons Area
Members Needed: 3
Estimated
Cost: $25
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Chapter members' husbands were secretly contacted
before the day of the surprise. Someone picked up the members early (6:00am) on a Saturday morning and they all met at one member's
home. Those being picked up are not allowed to dress. Prizes are given, such as
"Most Unique Morning Attire" and "Best Morning Hair-do." Breakfast was served.
Chapter Submitting: Springfield
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Members and prospective members met in a members
basement and played win, lose or draw. The social had an animal theme with animal
name tags and animal games played. The idea was to come looking as "tacky"as possible.
Three new members were signed.
Chapter Submitting: Bemidji
Members Needed: unknown
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Event was held at the American Legion. Booths were
set up on scarf-tying demonstrations, a craft, therapeutic facial massage table,
breast cancer information, nail sculpturing, hair styling and others. Fruit and
vegetable trays were available for refreshment. Door prizes were given.
Chapter Submitting: 2010 MVP Nicky Anderson
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Invite your friends to taste hot dogs the way they have been served in Chicago for years. The hot dog has to be a certain kind with all the right fixings. See the attached guide on making/serving the Chicago Style Hot Dog! Have fun with the Chicago quiz also included in the attached file.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: This is a fun m-event to celebrate that IT IS NOT our birthday, we are not a year older. But of course if it is someone’s birthday, they should be your special guests. Decorate with a variety of birthday decorations and serve birthday food. Invite the perspectives to bring a white elephant gift for a gift exchange. Everything you need is attached.
Chapter Submitting: Membership Management Committee (created by Jane Hanson)
Members Needed: as many as we can
Estimated Cost: minimal
Estimated Hours: unknown
Samples: Complete guide and information available
Summary: Send out a packet of hot cocoa with your invitations. Ask the perspective to bring the cocoa packet back and enjoy “gourmet cocoa” with all of the choices you bring to add to the cocoa (see attached handout for ideas). Enjoy good conversation about Women of Today over a cup of hot cocoa.
Chapter Submitting: Janesville
Members Needed: 3
Estimated
Cost: unknown
Estimated Hours: unknown
Summary: Obtain donations of toys, clothing & cash to
be given to women and their children at "Welcome Home
Transitional Living
Center."
Chapter Submitting: Fergus Falls & Morris Area
Members
Needed: 10-27
Estimated Cost: $362 - paid for itself
Estimated Hours: 58-115
Summary: To inform the public about our chapter and the Women
of Today organization. Hung flyers, put place mats in restaurants and advertised
on radio and in newspapers, etc. Promoted National, State and Local Women of Today
by introducing chapter members to the community through full page newspaper ads
and media ads. Recognized businesses that have supported chapter.
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