Make Dreams Real through Membership

Join 2008-09 RI President Dong Kurn Lee at one of 12 presidential membership conferences being held throughout the year and help generate ideas for developing club membership. 

Targeted to Rotary clubs, these two-day conferences include small-group discussions aimed at identifying best practices for member recruitment and retention and adapting to change.

Topics

• Changing demographics
• Developing goals
• Volunteering trends
• Mentoring
• Identifying prospective members

Who should attend?

Every Rotarian who is interested in strengthening Rotary, including:

• club and district membership committee chairs and members
• club presidents and officers
• district governors and officers

Conference dates and locations

Dates	Location	Organizing Chair
July 6	Tokyo, Japan	PRID Toshio Itabashi
July 11 - 13	Canberra, Australia	PDG Len Goodman
July 18 - 19	Auckland, New Zealand	PDG Andrew Meek
August 1 - 3	Johannesburg, South Africa*	PDG Greg Stathacopoulos
August 8 - 9	Buenos Aires, Argentina*	PRID Carlos Speroni
August 15 - 16	Sao Paulo, Brazil*	PDG Jose Antonio F. Antiorio
October 24 - 25	Merida, Mexico	PDG Jesse Devlyn
December 6 - 7	Vienna, Austria	PRID Peter Krön
December 12 - 13	Leicestershire, England	PRIBIP  John Hockin
January 9 – 10, 2009	Phoenix, Arizona, USA	PDG Greg Podd
February 6 – 7, 2009	Cairo, Egypt*	PDG Mohamed Delawar
March 27 – 28, 2009	Baltimore, Maryland, USA	PDG Toni McAndrew

*These conferences will also address child mortality, one of President Lee’s top concerns.

Participants attend at no cost to Rotary International. For registration information, contact the conference organizer.