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Preparing for your Chapter Association Presidency

Learn how to prepare for your role as a chapter president, including setting agendas, assessing programs, ensuring legal compliance, and promoting the association to various stakeholders.

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Preparing for your Chapter Association Presidency

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  1. Preparing for your Chapter Association Presidency Techniques and Strategies for a Successful Year

  2. Your Role as a Chapter President • Serve as Board Chair – Set the Agenda • Ensure Board Fulfills its Responsibilities • Monitor Finances • Assess and evaluate programs/activities • Plan for the Future • Set Policy • Legal compliance (laws, tax-exempt status, tax filings, government reporting • Maintaining governance documents (Bylaws, Articles of Incorporation

  3. Your Role as Chapter President • Consensus Builder and Facilitator • Motivate and Inspire • Membership • Member Involvement • Non-members • Promote the Association • To School Food Service • To Administration, Faculty, Parents, Community • Create and Communicate a Plan of Action

  4. What Spells Success for You? • You Earn the Respect of the Members? • You Complete your Plan of Action? • Increase your Membership by 10%? • Flowers are thrown at your feet at the beginning of each meeting?

  5. Success as President, Means to Me. . . • _________________________________________ • _________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________

  6. I Would Like Our Chapter to: • _________________________________________ • _________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________

  7. Specific Goals • _________________________________________ • _________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________ • ________________________________________________

  8. Making it Happen • Share Your Vision/Communicate Your Plan • Get Members Involved • Ask Members and Board Members to assist • Be Specific • Provide training and support • Check in regularly

  9. Helping Volunteers Succeed • Tell them what to do • Show them what to do • Let them try • Observe their performance, and then • Praise their progress, or redirect

  10. Easy ways to Engage Members Ask Them to: • Serve on the Event Planning Committee • Get raffle prizes • Find an SNA Webinar for everyone to watch • Bring decorations or refreshments • Coordinate the STEPS Challenge • Update the chapter’s Facebook page

  11. Resources for Chapters • Your Region Director • FSNA Committee Members from your Region • FSNA Board Members • FSNA Staff: Toll-free at 1-800-878-1832 • FSNA Website: www.floridaschoolnutrition.org • SNA Website: www.schoolnutrition.org • FL Dept. of Ag.: www.freshfromflorida.org • USDA: www.usda.gov

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