Topic: NAACP
[Excerpt from]
Minneapolis Branch NAACP (Unit 4050)
Report to the executive committee
Membership Committee - Meeting the challenge 2005 and beyond
Submitted March 23, 2005
Stephanie Maggitt [Medtronic executive] - Membership chair
...The Membership Committee has adopted a goal of 500 new members for the 2005 calendar year. To reach its goal the membership committee will adopt a nine month campaign to increase the membership by 500.
STRATEGY
Key contact personnel will be established at all faith community places of worship within the Minneapolis area. Membership committee will direct the marketing and support activities to this group and identify volunteers from each church to support the goal of 200 new membership from this group.
Contacts will be established with the Fraternities and Sororities within the Twin Cities for soliciting their membership for membership with the NAACP. A goal of 50 new members has been set for this group.
Establish and identify key personnel within African American social organizations and solicit new members from each organization. Groups identified include but not limited to the Jack and Jill organization, The Links, The Boule, The Monitors and The Sterling Club. A goal of 50 new members has been set for this group.
Professional organizations such as the Black MBA, Black Accountants, Black Engineers, Black Lawyers and Black Medical will be targeted for Life memberships. 50 Life memberships have been set as a goal and 100 regular memberships has been set as a goal.
Black Employee Groups will be targeted and solicited for 150 new memberships. This group includes employees at American Express, Medtronic, Honeywell, General Mills, Best Buy, Target, GE, 3M, US Bank, and Wells Fargo.....
-Doug Mann
Bureaucratically removed member-at-large
Minneapolis NAACP branch executive committee
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