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Kings & Queens Volume V11, No. 2

NAMI: NORTH AMERICAN MEMBERSHIP INITIATIVE
NAMI by PDG Jackie Williams

Congratulations

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The first question you should ask yourself is,” and we invited 1,928 LIONS to get on
what is LCI hoping to achieve?” board this train. From there, we have moved
WHAT IS ALL OF THIS “TO DO” Well, the short answer is: on to start building the work of our team….
1) LCI is expecting all of our districts to In terms of that part of the process, we had a
ABOUT NAMI – increase membership through new clubs. group led by VDG Anthony already do a
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO OUR 2) LCI is expecting us to increase membership SWOT analysis whereby the group looked at
the strengths, the weaknesses, the
in existing clubs. opportunities and the threats that our District
DISTRICT? 3) LCI is expecting our districts to strengthen may see in the short future. Thank you to
WHY ARE WE BEING ASKED TO our presence and impact through our service the SWOT TEAM!!! Our report will be
agenda. sent to LCI. We have also met with the
TAKE A TRAIN? 4) LCI very much expects us to enhance and Region Chairs so that they can put a plan
strengthen member satisfaction for existing in place for communication and awareness
Fellow Lions this is a big headline in the district LIONS by engaging our LIONS in continued with all of the clubs in the district. As we
move into our Station #3 – “YOUR LION’S
and you are right to be asking these questions… leadership development and by recognizing and EXPERIENCE”, WE need you to take a
What is NAMI? acknowledging the contributions of our everyday critical look at the experiences you are
What makes it different from MERL, from LION HEROES. having as a LION… WE need you to bring
MERLO, from GLT AND GMT, from GAT? those reflections to the DISTRICT WIDE
* So, how do we get to these grand goals? BUILD A VISION MEETING ON
NOVEMBER 8, 2020.
Very briefly, LIONS, the NAMI PROCESS is a * With what tools? And who is going to be
new initiative aimed at reversing a long trend of responsible for getting us there? As they say in our current times, “Every
declining membership across North America and point of view counts and we Need to count
Canada. It is more than the MERL program and Well, Lions that should be your second, third every point of view!”
yet it will be important to the continued effec- and fourth questions.
tiveness of GAT. It is a PROCESS that every
LION in our district is being asked to “Join”. This is where the District NAMI TRAIN comes So please put the date on your calendar!!!
The PROCESS requires us as a District to in! Please make sure you register when the in-
decided to participate or “OPT-IN”… It then formation comes out for the meeting!
requires us to build a team… We are 1975 team MY FELLOW LIONS, -- And please ask your club officers to set up
members strong as of this writing… It then time in your club meetings to discuss this
requires us to review and to create a VISION for WE ARE GOING TO BE TRAVELING FROM new PROCESS.
what we see as our District now and in the NOW UNTIL JUNE 30 ON THE NAMI 20-K1 As I close, I wish you well. I hope that you
future… and then We need to take our District MAKING LOCAL AND EXPRESS STOPS have downloaded the NAMI PERSONAL
specific data, our team and our VISION into a WITH OUR FINAL DESTINATION AT THE QUESTIONNAIRE SENT TO YOU ON
process of BUILDING A PLAN for our District STATION NAMED “DISTRICT 20-K1 – OCTOBER 10 and I HOPE THAT YOU
HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE FOR
membership and finally it requires us to YEARS TO COME” HAVE PUT IT SOMEWHERE VISIBLE
EXECUTE the PLAN for SUCCESS!!! FOR your ongoing reflections!!!

Even on the fastest express train WE could not We set out on this Journey from Station #1 or Yours in Service,
do that in one year… NO WAY!!! WE want to what we would call our July 1, Membership
build and Execute for Success!!! Therefore, Data – with our status quo at that time. We Jackie Williams

we will be engaged for the next 4 years at the have moved forward with our Train Engineer, PDG, DISTRICT 20-K1 NAMI
least in the NAMI PROCESS… ARE YOU ON the head of District 20-K1, DG Jacqueline CHAMPION
BOARD!!! Phillips