WHAT: Get a jumpstart on building your membership for the upcoming school year. End selling current year memberships and close current year’s sales Plan how you will implement your early membership campaign Promote & sell early memberships in spring/early summer before the rush & expense of back to school. WHY host an Early Spring Membership … Continue reading Steps to Plan & Implement an Early Bird Spring Membership Campaign:
Membership: Teaming Up with Your Teachers & Staff
Summer may be ending, but it’s time to build your PTA team for a great school year. PTA is a partnership between families, teachers, school staff and administrators and the community. Making a personal invitation to your different stakeholders can go a long way to assemble your collaborative team for success! Now is the perfect … Continue reading Membership: Teaming Up with Your Teachers & Staff
Membership: Teaming Up with Your Parents
Summer may be ending, but it’s time to build your PTA team for a great school year. PTA is a partnership between families, school staff & administrators, and the community. Making a personal invitation to your parents and families can go a long way to assembling your team for a year of success! It’s not … Continue reading Membership: Teaming Up with Your Parents
Busting 5 PTA Membership Myths
Membership is one of the basic parts of PTA, but there are a lot of myths and misunderstandings about it. Here are five common PTA membership myths busted. Myth #1: Membership campaigns are only at the start of the school year. Busted: Sure, most of your members will join PTA at the start of the … Continue reading Busting 5 PTA Membership Myths
Have Fun, Grow Membership, and Win Prizes with Membership Mania
As a PTA leader, you’ve probably often heard that you should integrate membership into everything your PTA does, but perhaps you’re not sure what that means exactly. Is it having a PTA membership table out at every event? Is it always having a join our PTA link in every e-mail? All of this and more? … Continue reading Have Fun, Grow Membership, and Win Prizes with Membership Mania
Integrating Membership into your PTA Programming: Reflections
It’s Reflections season with art projects & entries being turned in. Students and families are excited at the ability to create projects in the 6 art categories and share their talents and creativity! Did your PTA sponsor the Reflections Art Program at your school? Have you ever thought of integrating your Membership campaign with those … Continue reading Integrating Membership into your PTA Programming: Reflections
Everyone Can Join PTA!
So you’ve made your first membership dues payment to Illinois PTA by October 1 (ahem), and perhaps you’re thinking, “Is that it? Are we done with membership for the year?” Of course not! You’ve got your Reach for the Stars goals to achieve. And if you’re looking for ways to grow your membership to meet … Continue reading Everyone Can Join PTA!
Creating Your PTA Value Message
If you are looking to grow your PTA membership, you might have already heard that the number one reason people haven’t joined PTA is because they were never asked to join. And while, “Would you like to join our PTA?” will get some people to join, it’s not always enough. Fortunately, National PTA has created … Continue reading Creating Your PTA Value Message
6 Steps to Grow Your PTA Membership
July kicks off the start of a new PTA membership year. As a PTA leader, you know that members are the lifeblood of your PTA, but perhaps you are unsure how to grow your membership. Here are six simple steps to growing your PTA membership. Have a membership goal. It’s hard to grow your membership … Continue reading 6 Steps to Grow Your PTA Membership
Build Your Membership with Membership Minutes
National PTA has a wealth of tools to help your PTA build its membership. One tool that you might have missed is the Membership Minute short videos shared on social media. Unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be an easy way or a location where you can find all of these videos in one place, so … Continue reading Build Your Membership with Membership Minutes
Tweaking Your PTA’s Course in the New Year
New Year’s is a time of fresh starts for a lot of people, but for PTAs, it’s the middle of the year. Your PTA doesn’t need a fresh start, but perhaps you could use a few minor “course corrections.” Here are three such changes your PTA should be considering now. Membership Your PTA got off … Continue reading Tweaking Your PTA’s Course in the New Year
6 Steps to Rebuild Your PTA’s Leadership
When schools closed in the spring of 2020 to fight the spread of COVID-19, many PTAs ran into difficulties. Closed schools meant shifting to virtual PTA meetings, and PTAs with spring officer elections often struggled with running virtual elections. When school started back up in the fall of 2020, many schools were still online-only or … Continue reading 6 Steps to Rebuild Your PTA’s Leadership
Grow Your PTA with Membership Mania
Every PTA needs new members. Perhaps your PTA is looking to find people to help out. Perhaps you want to grow your membership to meet your membership goals in the Illinois PTA membership recognition program. Whatever the reason, you need to check out Membership Mania from National PTA. Membership Mania is the update of last … Continue reading Grow Your PTA with Membership Mania
Make Membership Easy
You’ve used National PTA’s resources to plan out your membership campaign. You’ve got your elevator pitch down cold and can tell someone why it’s important to join your PTA in under a minute. You know that the main reason people don’t join PTA is that they aren’t asked to join. You’re as ready to recruit … Continue reading Make Membership Easy
You Belong in PTA
PTA leaders have long known that the reason most people do not join PTA is because they were never asked to join. While your PTA does great things in your school and community, talking about what your PTA has accomplished and inviting others to join you can be difficult. National PTA has created a set … Continue reading You Belong in PTA
Reach for the Stars with Our New Membership Recognition Program!
Illinois PTA has a new membership recognition program to honor PTAs, PTA Councils, and Regions that grow and support PTA membership. The tiered program will recognize membership growth not just in the 2021-2022 school year, but is also structured for PTAs to build on their success year after year. Rewards Recognition will be awarded based … Continue reading Reach for the Stars with Our New Membership Recognition Program!
PTA Membership Mythbusting
When asking people to join your PTA, you will likely hear a lot of reasons why they don’t want to join, and many of these reasons are myths about PTA. National PTA has created a flyer of 10 PTA Membership Myths & Truths that you can share with potential members to help with your membership campaign. The … Continue reading PTA Membership Mythbusting
Planning for Your PTA Year
Once again, PTA leaders planning for the coming year are faced with a lot of uncertainty. From the growing prevalence of the delta variant to breakthrough infections in vaccinated people and shifting recommendations on mask wearing, it is difficult to know how your coming school year will play out. Much of what Illinois PTA shared with … Continue reading Planning for Your PTA Year
National PTA Launches Zooming Into Membership Toolkit
The pandemic has presented many challenges for PTAs—fundraising, online meetings, virtual events, and not the least, membership. National PTA has launched Zooming Into Membership, an initiative to support PTA Councils, districts, regions, and states in supporting local PTA membership efforts. The initiative is based on several years of work with different levels of PTA to develop … Continue reading National PTA Launches Zooming Into Membership Toolkit
Running Your PTA in a Pandemic—Part 1: Basics
Last spring, Illinois PTA ran a series of articles on how to run your PTA when schools are closed. This fall, schools have opened in a variety of configurations, from online only, to all in-person, to some mix of the two, and may shuffle between those as local conditions change during the year. In addition, … Continue reading Running Your PTA in a Pandemic—Part 1: Basics
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