<p>I'm in the Young Republican and Young Democrats Club at my school. It began last year and has quickly gone down hill. The advisor has no idea what to do with it, all that happens is she invites random people to talk...about things nothing to do with the club!!!! I'd like to make this club a lot of fun and attract more than its current FOUR members...Any ideas? </p>
<p>I think I might try fundraising to go on a trip to DC...or something exciting.</p>
<p>Haha, you're asking the wrong person (not that you necessarily asked me) but, my schools clubs are horrible. There's like... the same three people in each one (and there are only like three clubs anyway)</p>
<p>Um... first of all, what does your club do? I'd assume it's something with politics? Maybe you guys could try to integrate some kind of debate or mock UN stuff in (we breifly started a mock UN club... it didn't get anywhere, but it SOUNDED fun)... </p>
<p>Sell food, if you want money.</p>
<p>Fundraising for a DC trip with only four people might not be the best idea - my class was going to go, and we were like 30 people, but only 17ish wanted to go, so it ended up failing. If you can bribe people to join, that's a great idea - a trip to DC is definately fitting.</p>
<p>You guys need to have activities (ah, yes, i'm so good at restating the obvious, eh?) and stuff (i should go dig up my list of student council ideas from back when i was involved with it) that include the rest of the school, maybe then they'd be interested? Does your school have a student council? (hah, probably, it's not my school, after all)</p>
<p>Once I actually KNOW what your club does, maybe i'll have more ideas... I'm kinda sheltered from these things (knowing what people in normal schools do in various clubs)</p>
<p>Maybe have a mock election, getting your student body to vote like they would if it were a federal election... we're doing that in January at my school in "honor" of the upcoming Canadian federal election (which is on Jan. 23 fyi). You could have events at lunch, like campaign speeches in the cafeteria, polling, party caucus meetings, etc. Maybe even get your school newspaper involved to do some articles covering the candidates or parties.</p>
<p>Also, you could get involved with campaigning (though it might be a bit early..) for your local elections</p>
<p>Yeah, the important 2006 elections are coming up, you should get involved.</p>
<p>Yeah, the teacher tried that...we were going to help with school board elections...Awesome, n'est-ce pas? </p>
<p>Thank you for the ideas!
We already have a model united nations (...that I'm the president of...oo;)</p>
<p>Rawr. Yeah, fundraising with four people probably wouldn't be the biggest success...I was just hoping that we might collect more people to join the club...</p>
<p>Okay...what my club does. We meet in the morning (bad), we sit in desks as the teacher has different "guest" speakers speak. We are allowed to ask questions. We get lots of handouts...</p>
<p>Even the guest speakers don't know what is going on! </p>
<p>So...That's it. That's why I need help...</p>
<p>Um. No more guest speakers. Tell everyone in the club to bring a friend and tons of ideas to the next meeting. Discuss said ideas. Have a day every week where it's like bring a guest day or something - and have the people DRAG one of their friends in. Who knows, maybe some will stay. Offer refreshments.
Fundraising with four people (and their friends that they brought on bring a friend day) would be a great success :D We made 700$ on student council last year, and we were only like 6 or 7 people. And I'm sure you guys have a much bigger student body than ours, so you have lots of potential customers.
Have one day of the month where you open the meeting to EVERYONE in the school (a general body meeting (i'm stealing student council terms here)) and make a really big deal about it, publicize it, offer food, etc. Then make some speech about "we have a problem, we need to be more active, get more members, etc".</p>
<p>I could give the members sticks and tell them to beat their friends, then when they got there...open a discussion on tyrants and how it felt to have their freedom taken away (aren't you glad you live in america, etc.) HA! It'd be awesome! </p>
<p>Sorry, not mocking you, those are actually really good ideas. That's just the first thing that popped into my head because I'm weird like that...</p>
<p>ANYWAY! THANK YOU! thank you thank you!</p>
<p>Hah :)
Let me know how it goes, if you use any of the ideas. It's much easier for me to come up with suggestions for other people.</p>
<p>Oh - idea. When you DO have guest speakers (have them more rarely, so that it's something big when they come), make a huge deal out of it, and try to get famous-ish people. Maybe like some former governor of your state or somehting. Then, have the guest come on one of the 'everyone can come' meeting days, and have them talk about how its important to be involved, etc etc</p>