1. Supporting NEW Clubs:
From Start to Charter & Beyond

2. LEARNING OBJECTIVES Understanding New Club Development
Options and Opportunity
Examples of Vibrant New Clubs
Resources

3. WHY?

4. WHY? Offer value missing in the community
Create space for different club styles or personality
Reach new demographics, professions, and skills
Craft a new kind of member/club experience
Utilize new flexibility

5. GETTING STARTED Leadership, research, and opportunity
Organize, build support, and make a communication plan
Hold meetings and continue to recruit prospective members
Submit charter application (min. 20 members)
Continue club development
Leadership, Research, and Opportunity
District leadership approval is key. Research and identify areas of opportunity
Organize and Make a Communication Plan
How are you going to reach your prospective member base?
Hold meetings and continue to recruit prospective members
Prepare agendas, decide club leadership, how and when you’ll meet
Submit charter application (min. 20 members)
Continue club development
Continue to assess the needs of the members, the club, and the community

6. SATELLITE CLUBS Minimum of 8 members Different meeting times/days
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SATELLITE CLUBS
Minimum of 8 members
Different meeting times/days
Different dues
Different club direction and projects
Satellite mentored to charter
What is a Satellite Club?
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A satellite is a club within a club offering a different membership experience from their sponsor club…but it still closely tied to the sponsor club. Members of satellites are technically members of the sponsor club. The satellite should have a minimum of 8 members to start. And the more members there are to start with, the more successful the club will likely be to charter. They can meet at totally different times, have a different dues structure, different projects, etc. from their sponsor club. Satellite clubs set up their own board and have their own officers. However, instead of a president, a satellite club has a chair.
If a club is ambitious, they could have multiple satellites though that wouldn’t be advised unless the club and the community have the capacity to support multiple satellites.
Ultimately, the goal of creating a satellite is to mentor the club until it’s ready to charter on it’s own- hopefully setting the satellite up for long term success as a healthy, vibrant club. Please note that there’s no deadline by which the satellite needs to charter.

7. VIBRANT NEW CLUBS: EXAMPLES
Rotary Club of Bonita Beach Sunset Club
Satellite after community assessment
Meets 2x monthly in the evenings
Inherited members ready to leave Rotary
Special YP discount – members under 40 pay ½ dues
Rotary Club of Seaford
Diverse call for new club formation
Rotate meetings - 2x monthly
Focus on projects
Speakers are the exception and not the rule
Rotary Club of Cross Timbers
Created based on visualizing the ideal Rotary Club
Identified membership on 3 T’s: talent, time, and treasure
Creating great opportunities for family and fellowship
“No drama” rule
Rotary Club of Australian Nomads
Online meetings
Niche member demographic - travelers “giving travel a sense of purpose”
Various gatherings to lend hands to rural club projects
Annual fellowship trip
Rotary Ambassadors Club
20 member capacity
Meets 2x monthly- online meetings and Sunday cocktail hour
Quarterly home hosted Saturday night dinner
Partner membership
Paul Harris Society donors
3 projects annually
The Rotary Club of Seaford, Southern Australia, AUS – This new club meets twice a month and rotates where its meetings are held. They consider speakers the exception, not the rule. And when they do have speakers, they align with the projects the club is currently working on (featured in the newest edition of Be a Vibrant Club)
Rotary Club of Bonita Beach Sunset Club
Satellite after community assessment – all other clubs met in the morning or at noon
Meets 2x monthly in the evenings
Inherited members ready to leave Rotary (couldn’t make the times scheduled anymore
Special YP discount – members under 40 pay ½ dues
Rotary Club of Australian Nomads
Rotary Club of Cross Timbers
Rotary Club of Ambassadors

8. RESOURCES Starting a Rotary Club Satellite FAQ & Application
1/16/2019
RESOURCES
Starting a Rotary Club
Satellite FAQ & Application
Club Flexibility Page
Membership Satisfaction Survey
Club and District Support team
Rotary Coordinators, Assistant Rotary Coordinators, and Regional Membership Officer

9. QUESTIONS
Julie Aubry Regional Membership Officer