Attracting People to Join a Club?

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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Next year I am taking leadership of my school’s ECO club and need some advice. Almost all the members in the club this year were seniors so they will all be graduating and I will only be left with 2 members. The people at my school don’t really seem into ECO even though we have tried PSAs (which people found funny), advertisements on the school news, student activity fair, etc. We have tried many recruitment methods none of which have worked very well. There was an endangered animals club this year also which suddenly stopped mid year so the adviser of the ECO club suggested I morph the two clubs into one. The people at my school seem way more interested in endangered animals than ECO as their email list was like 30 people but at the same time I feel as if a lot of those people just showed up to have another thing to put on their resume.

I can offer leadership positions would that help? I would be president but I could always offer other positions to other students.

What should I do? Is this club a lost cause? Should I try creating a different club that may appeal more to the student body.
The club has done a lot of great things and helped our school a lot…
Thank you!

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I would keep it going. I agree with your advisor, morph the two and focus more on the endangered animals bit. Adding leadership positions definitely helps to attract people, but don’t go overboard (like 10 leadership positions on a 20 person club).

An endangered animals club is pretty unique, I would probably join!

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Talk at an assembly, make friends with a person who knows everyone really well, show people what you are doing all the time and try to soften their stances towards ECO. Is it only a school thing? If it is a community thing, you could go recruit people at an event that talks about ECO issues.