Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta said membership has hovered around 1.2 million for the past two decades. Only with more members and more participants can we serve more and change more lives. 

 

Mehta’s Each One, Bring One initiative asks every member to bring one person to join Rotary, to share the gift of Rotary to one person each. Our vision is to reach 1.3 million by July 1, 2022.   

 

We are opening the front door to welcome new members, we also has to ensure no members are going out of the back door. It is engagement that ensure members to stay.  

 

Victoria Mu was born and raised in Beijing China She immigrated to Canada in 1989 and completed Accounting at CGA level.  She has been working over 27 years in the Accounting/Finance function of public companies in various industries such as retail, advertising, mining and financial services progressing through positions from accountant to accounting department manager and controller. She also worked as news anchor at AM1320 for over 8 years. 

Dr. William Osei is originally from Ghana. His Rotary journey began in 1987 with the Gaborone Rotary Club in Botswana. He immigrated to Canada in 1990 and joined Rotary Club in Regina and later Rotary Clubs in Prince George. He was Rotarian of the Year in 2013 and Citizen of the year for volunteer in 2015. William has extensive experience with international health and development organizations, including the World Health Organization (WHO), African and other governments as well as other regional and professional bodies. 

 

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At Richmond Rotary's Wednesday Meeting, Rotarians got together to discuss a critical issue - how to retain and attract new members!

 

 

In a presentation from Paul Elsley of Rotary Kingston, we heard about how they substantially increased their membership:

 

Membership strategy is critical if a Rotary club plans to increase membership. So how do you create a membership strategy in the first place? A Rotary club must set annual goals and use focused messaging to target a variety of member types.