IN SERVICE TO ONE. IN SERVICE TO ALL MONTHLY PUBLICATION FOR THE OHIO STATE COUNCIL
YEAR 2 MONTH 8 FEBRUARY 2017
New Year, New Challenges January Proves Difficult Robert F. Collins, Jr. Brother Knights, A little about membership… Oh boy, looks like our Membership Plan went on vacation for the month of January. It wasn’t a total loss but not exactly what we were looking for at the State Council. It will take some undoing but I still believe in you Brother Knights throughout Ohio to come to the task and get the job done. Our efforts statewide in Ohio placed us eighth in the January Supreme Council Membership Contest behind everyone. We finished with 5.15% intake and nearly six percent behind first place. We will have three Membership Incentives working this month and a Special Spring Incentive for March and April that I will explain at all of the Super Cash Bonanza Road Show stops. Be sure to have your Council Membership Director there so he may hear firsthand what the Council incentives are. Please see the State Membership Director Nick Gresko’s article for details or look for his Membership E-blasts this month.
Gross Intake (New Member Recruitment) We are currently 38th of 74 Jurisdictions in the Order with a 42.98% of intake goal. To date we have recruited but 967 new members in the first seven months of the Fraternal Year. This places us 5th among the Division 1 Jurisdictions, but only about 6% behind them. To put this into perspective we should be at 58.5% of gross intake or 1125 new members. We will have to continue to step up our recruiting pace to get back on track in January. In real numbers we will need in Ohio 256 new members per month over the next 5 months to retain our Circle of Honor status. With just a little extra effort I know that together we can make this happen. Net Intake (New Member Recr uitment less Suspensions and Withdrawals) We are currently 29th of 74 Jurisdictions in the Order with a 45.02% of intake goal. To date we have retained but 788 of those new members in the first seven months of the Fraternal Year. This places us 3rd among the Division 1 Jurisdictions but again just about six percentage points behind. Again
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to put this into perspective we should be at 58.5% of our net goal or 1024 members retained. Net/Net Intake (New Member Recruitment less Suspensions, Withdrawals and Out of State Transfers) We are currently 58st of 74 Jurisdictions in the Order with a -92% of intake goal. To date we haven’t retained any of the new members in the first seven months of the Fraternal Year and lost and have lost an additional 92 members. Most of losses this month were due to member deaths. There was an unusual amount of deaths recorded for January. This again places us 4th among the Division 1 Jurisdictions. Again to put this into perspective we should be at 58.5% of our net/net goal or +59 members retained. Again on the positive side we still have another 5 months to recover our losses. With a good membership plan and an aggressive approach to church drives and new council development we can get back on track. It does however raise the bar each (Continued on page 2)
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