Welcoming by Staff - 2009 welcoming | membership |
These documents focus on assessment of your society membership programs and practices, welcoming people into your society and a wide range of practices to build membership. While each of these documents has its own introduction, a brief comment is provided below.
Welcoming -- Before You Begin by Staff - 2009 No Tags This Articles
Before you begin: Membership Program Rating Scale provides an assessment of your current society before you develop programs to build membership in the society. This is a 4 page rating scale on your society practices and programs that may have a direct impact on membership growth and maintenance as well as society effectiveness. It can be completed in 15-30 minutes by an individual, but should be followed by a group discussion of the items in order to gain consensus on areas of strength and areas of opportunity, given your current resources.
What To Do After You Say Hello? by Staff - 2009 No Tags This Articles
This is a brief 9 point list of steps that are suggested to help connect newcomers connect with the society. While it is written for the Washington Ethical Society, it may be utilized with minor modifications in most societies
What We Live For: A Humanist's Affirmation by Matthew Ies Spetter - 1997 platform | affirmation | leader |
All of us want to make sense out of the time in which we live. Both privately and socially we maintain a dialogue with what we are experiencing.
The problem is that we can hold many ideas and values at the same time even when they are not compatible ...
When Children Ask About God by Florence W. Klaber - 1975 No Tags This Articles
"My child asks about God; what do I tell him?"
When Loss and Grief Come: What Will Sustain Us? by Matthew Ies Spetter - 1998 platform | loss | grief | leader |
A man who had recently lost his wife told me that he felt that his grief would never end. It had been a very good second marriage for both of them and then the disaster struck of a rapidly spreading disease with much suffering toward the end. His devastation was without relief ...
Why Public Schools by Meredith Sue Willis - date n.a. No Tags This Articles
I grew up in a small Appalachian town where two-thirds of my graduating class did not go on to college. There is nothing in my education that I value more than that high school experience. I learned to see myself as one part of a diverse world, and I assumed that this public school experience was one that everyone sought.
Welcoming by Staff - 2009
