New Club Opening

The New York District Kiwanis is on a new club opening roll.
Six new clubs were opened in the month of May and June with more to come.
Clubs opened were: Deer Park-North Babylon-Suffolk West Division (17 members), Ridgewood-Queens West Division (100+ members), Midtown Manhattan-Metropolitan Division (15+ members), Fairview-Greenburgh-Hudson Tri-County (16+ members), Southern Dutchess County-Hudson River Division (16+ members) and Maybrook-Hudson River West (17+ members) Congratulations to the club openers and lieutenant governors for the hard work! That brings us to eight new clubs.
Fairview-Greenburgh and Southern Dutchess County were built in a two-day Eye of the Tiger Blitz (see the NYDK website for that story).
Historically, since 1989, we have only opened new clubs in double digits three times: 1999-2000 with 11 (PDG Joe Eppolito), 2001-02 with 15 clubs (PDG Pat Cooney) and 2003-04 with 11 (PDG Peter Mancuso). I BELIEVE that we will do that in 2017-18 under Gov.Candace Corsaro.
From a membership standpoint, we are at a +432 as of July 1. Historically, we have had only four district net gains since 1989: 1999-2000 +190 (PDG Joe Eppolito), 2001-02 +185 (PDG Pat Cooney), 2007-08 +6 (PDG Don Herring) and 2010-11 +87 (PDG Mike Malark). We need a much larger positive growth going into September to remain at a positive net growth. I BELIEVE we can achieve positive growth under Gov. Candace.
What can we all do? Recruit a member or two, retain a member of two from quitting, help those New Club Openers in your division that are working on a new club site and be POSITIVE! The new club opening process can also be used to revitalize a struggling club. It is the SAME process.
See you all at DCON in Syracuse in August. I can be reached at 315-436-2157 (cell) and/or at pepster@aol.com.

Column Posted on Web Site July 17, 2018