Some ideas:- Communicate, communicate, communicate
- Encourage “user-generated content”, i.e. make it a two-way communication
- Online club meetings – these are an obvious option, but there are some things that will make these meetings more engaging.
- District-wide online meetings
- Set up a challenge for clubs to engage in – a project, competition, an activity they can do in their own homes
- Have online speakers come to your Zoom meeting. What about inviting some of the speakers who didn’t make it to your district conference?
- Share ideas for projects you can do collectively but remotely
- Set up a phone tree to keep in contact – e.g. if you have committees or project teams, use this structure to keep people engaged and informed
- Support vulnerable individual members – club buddies
- Change your club newsletter or bulletin – e.g. inject some fun items, not just jokes but stories about members, recipes, travel stories …….
- Work on updating your club website (see some suggestions below)
- Review and refresh your club strategic plan
- Carry out a needs analysis in your local community by phoning and talking with people – what are the real needs in your community?
- Identify community partners, both for now and the future - which other groups might you partner with?
- Become virtual mentors for young people, especially Rotaractors
- Do some learning through the many learning modules in the Learning Center - https://learn.rotary.org/members/learn/catalog . Run a webinar - https://my.rotary.org/en/learning-reference/webinars/on-demand
Learning modules and Webinars can be run through Zoom as a group.
- Within the guidelines for lockdown – volunteer to run errands for those who need it
- Engage with other community organisations, e.g Meals on Wheels
- Start planning for recovery – How do we want our club to look after this is over? What projects could you pick up? Who could you partner with?
- Update the District website, e.g. these tips from District 9930.