Creating a Stellar Chapter Development Plan

In this webinar, we’ll walk through an example of a chapter development plan created by a fellow CRP. You will leave with a template to create your very own chapter development plan. View Slides >>

Why do you need a chapter development plan? How can having one help your association and it’s chapters? These are the 8 areas to focus on when developing your own chapter development plan:

1. Set Your Intent: What do you want to get out of this? What are your current goals? What is leadership asking for from you?
2.  Executive Summary: Create a concise statement about the overall health of your chapters.
3. Chapter Development Goals: List 3-5 goals you’d like to accomplish in the next year. Create actionable sub-tasks and determine who this will be assigned to.
4. General Support: What general support do you provide to your chapters? List out all tasks/services and tool that National provides.
5. Issues of Concern: What drives you nuts about your chapters? What should they be doing, but aren’t?
6. Do Your Research: Conduct some research, get some stats. Find 3 to begin the process.
7. Analysis of Chapters: List out all of your chapters. Provide at least one strength, weakness and opportunity/recommendation per chapter.
8. Review Goals: Now that you have a good idea on your chapters’ strengths and weaknesses, use that to revise and update your goals.