The membership committee came together this past winter with the purpose to come up with ideas to reenergize the club by identifying critical problem areas and developing new ideas to help stimulate membership involvement in the club. To that end, we developed an online survey program through Survey online that many of you responded to and gave us your opinions based on the questions asked. We tried to keep the questions focused so that we could use the information you gave us in a constructive manner.
The survey is not meant to be the end of this effort, only a guidepost as to where we go from here and where we put our efforts in the future to help make this a better club. So the process is still ongoing. We want to use your feedback to guide our new Board of Directors starting in August and give them specific things to work on throughout the upcoming Lion year.
Based on this survey, changes will be coming and you are all invited to participate, volunteer, and offer your ideas and suggestions. We need everyone’s participation.
Steve Krebsbach, Steve Lindauer, Susy Kinsky, Nancy Hopper, Bob McCormick
Five key takeaways from the survey and a survey summary:
1). Look at changing up our meetings to include some evenings and possible no downtown location
2). More social events, and mixers are needed and could be tied to Lion projects, and networking.
3). More service projects are needed
4). Our Foundation needs to provide more information and promotion as to what it is and what it does.
5). Must get back to face-to-face meetings.
The survey is not meant to be the end of this effort, only a guidepost as to where we go from here and where we put our efforts in the future to help make this a better club. So the process is still ongoing. We want to use your feedback to guide our new Board of Directors starting in August and give them specific things to work on throughout the upcoming Lion year.
Based on this survey, changes will be coming and you are all invited to participate, volunteer, and offer your ideas and suggestions. We need everyone’s participation.
Steve Krebsbach, Steve Lindauer, Susy Kinsky, Nancy Hopper, Bob McCormick
Five key takeaways from the survey and a survey summary:
1). Look at changing up our meetings to include some evenings and possible no downtown location
2). More social events, and mixers are needed and could be tied to Lion projects, and networking.
3). More service projects are needed
4). Our Foundation needs to provide more information and promotion as to what it is and what it does.
5). Must get back to face-to-face meetings.
Denver Lions Survey Details
We had a 68% response rate with 12 members responding from the 0-4 years with the club group, 12 members responding from the 5-12 group, and 34 members responding from the 13+ group.
60% of the respondents say that they are very to somewhat active in the club. 58% of the 0-4 years group, 42% of the 5-12 years group and 68% of the 13+ years group. So those most active are either the very new members or the members that have been in the club the longest.
The Lion’s mission and volunteering opportunities were the overwhelming reasons why all three groups joined the club.
The service work we do and meeting new people were at the top of the list of what all respondents said was what they liked best about the club.
Going to conventions was the overwhelming thing they liked the least. Interestingly, lunches at Maggiano’s also scored fairly high on this.
60% of the respondents say they always, usually, or sometimes go to lunch meetings. That means 23 of the respondents never or rarely ever go to meetings. Those 23 plus the 30 members that did not respond to the survey mean that 53 out of 88 members, 60%, are not lunch attenders. (Assuming the 30 that did not respond to the survey are not lunch attendees)
The main reason given for not attending lunches was the time of day and parking. Two comments from the 13+ group were “I don’t feel valued” and “Members are too old and formal”.
55% of the respondents said yes or maybe to attend a meeting at a new location, and 45% are yes or maybe to a new day or time for the meeting. The 0-4 years group was the most willing for both of these questions.
Face-to-face meetings scored high by all groups with a mix of Zoom meetings a distant second place.
All respondents were interested in more or improving social events. “Mixers with a purpose”, “Social time at lunch meetings rather than a speaker”. “Social events associated with service projects.” “Business networking wellness events, pub meetings”. “Valentine’s dinner/dance”. “Meet with other clubs.” “Rockies game, top golf.”
36% of the respondents say that they always or usually participate in service projects with the 13+ group the strongest at 47%. 43% of the respondents feel we need more service projects and only 14% say we don’t need more. The 0-4 group showed the strongest interest in having more projects at 58%.
55% want us to engage with other clubs while 14% said we should not. The rest had no opinion.
The top suggestions for new service projects were, Projects that align with our mission, Affordable transient rental housing, Working with Rotary, Neighborhood cleanups, Playground build, and Activities that bring us to the community like Taste of Colorado. Need more marketing. 41% of the respondents thought we should organize networking opportunities with the strongest response, 50%, coming from the 0-4 group. Only 6% of the respondents said we shouldn’t do this. 72% of the respondents said Yes or Might be that networking would be a key benefit to joining the club.
79% of the respondents donate to the Foundation every year or sometimes with the strongest participation coming from the 13+ group. Reasons for not donating include Can’t Afford it, Not being sure what they do, and Not being aware of the foundation and its purpose.
The question of doing fundraisers was a mixed bag with 34% saying yes, 21% saying no and 34% saying no Opinions all spread pretty evenly through the groups.
Networking, website, LinkedIn and Facebook were the top responses from all respondents to how best to reach new members
Promoting Lions on social media, More service projects, and Network events were the top ways to increase activity in the club. Also scoring high were holding meetings or social events in the evening and bringing back the Tail Twister.
Some final comments of note from individuals.
Everyone should be involved in a project * Thanks for doing this survey * Foundation needs to spend more money * Must have regular meetings regardless of holidays * Great club * Can’t take 3-hour lunches * Focus on a few signature projects * Invite a guest to lunch contests * Losing interest in Lions and Dues is excessive * Set a committee to focus on the promotion of the club * The club and its communications just aren’t reaching me or resonation with me. *