FRCMem/YKoPs Team Captain Instructions

New member recruitment campaign: Your Kind of  People (YKoP) campaign

PERC volunteers are being asked to invite friends, family, or colleagues to become PERC members. By becoming a PERC member, they have an opportunity to support the volunteer, know their money will be well used, get something in return and still feel generous! A PERC member enjoys the same perks as a PERC volunteer does: the PEN (PERC members have the PEN mailed to them) and library borrowing privileges.

The guidelines:


 * Each PERC volunteer (other than those in orientation) is being asked to recruit 2 new PERC members (1 can be themselves).


 * Recruitment kits will be provided for PERC volunteers to sign out.
 * Each kit will include:
 * The PERC's great new video on CD!
 * The PERC's great new brochure!
 * Wonderful testimonials--that is, quotes of the really nice and encouraging feedback we continually receive from PERC members!
 * Instructions for the volunteer.
 * A reply coupon which is mailed (or brought to the PERC) with the new member's donation.


 * The idea is that if asked, family, friends, and colleagues might just want to please and show support for the volunteer and their endeavours.


 * Gift memberships will be accepted.


 * New member recruitment only--this campaign doesn't include renewals. Recruitment of former PERC members whose memberships are expired (lapsed at least 6 months) will be accepted.


 * The campaign will be two months in duration. It will be launched September 24th.  There will be no extensions.

Team captain responsibilities:


 * Your team is your committee (based on the volunteers on your committee as of campaign launch date).


 * We want to acknowledge and reward effort in this campaign and focus on celebrating our successes. Please encourage and thank everyone on your committee who understands why it's important to be involved!


 * Of course, you can't ask others on your committee to do what you yourself haven't done. Recruit a new member, buy a gift membership, and/or become a member yourself!  Lead by example.  Start a round with your committee to acknowledge and encourage others' participation.


 * Team captains track their committee members' participation: At your committee's meetings, you remind committee members to sign out kits.  You also follow up (e.g. e-mail, phone calls) on those committee members who, to your knowledge, haven't signed out kits.


 * Please remind your committee members to write their name, as well as the name of your committee, in the margin of the reply coupon included in each kit.  Membership Committee will contact you when your committee has successfully recruited a new member.  You can then announce your team's progress at committee meetings.


 * Please remind your committee members that any new memberships hand-delivered to the PERC office go in the envelope marked "New Memberships & Renewals" in the box marked "Membership" (#39 on shelf over the desk where the phone is).

Thank you!