Chapter Connect

This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

Join us for the Kick-off inaugural Chapter Connect.  This evening will be filled with fun, fellowship, food and drinks. Network with fellow SWANA chapter leaders and get ready for an outstanding week of learning.

For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.

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This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

Start the day with  your fellow chapter leaders for a networking breakfast.

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For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.

This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

Chapter leaders share and explore the various ways of communicating with their membership.

For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.

This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

An interactive session where you we will crowdsource different membership development scenarios that chapters deal with on a regular basis. This round table session will be facilitated by Regional Board Director Philip Westmoreland and assisted by SWANA staff members Darryl Walter and Estela Martinez.

For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.

This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

Chapter leaders share their best member engagement tactics that you can use in your own chapters. we will provide a high level summary of six different membership engagement activities and provide a downloadable resource package to assist chapters with planning and implement the activities.

• Chapter Training Sessions - How To Develop Champions To Organize Them And At The Same Time, Engage the Young. – Regional Director Kevin Roche (Northern New England Chapter) we will cover best practices in developing champions to deliver the top notch training and educational sessions for their Chapters without having one SWANA leader having to do it all. It also focuses on how to engage Schools, Students and Young Professionals (YPs) to participate in the process. The end result is a successful succession plan for your Chapters!
• Engaging Your Membership through an Awards Program. Regional Board Director Jim Skora (OH Buckeye Chapter) will be presenting tips and best practices for creating or updating your chapter awards program.
• Scholarship Programs. Regional Director Dana Blumberg(Mid-Atlantic Chapter) will share tips and best practices for creating or updating your chapter scholarship program.
• Annual Meetings & Conferences: Keith Howard, FL Sunshine Chapter
• Chapter and Regional Road-E-Os. Regional Director Pat Tapia  (AZ Great Basin Chapter) will share tips and best practices for creating or updating your chapter or regional Road-E-O.
• Golf Tournaments

For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.

This event is exclusively available to SWANA Chapter leaders.

Have you ever wondered why SWANA’s organizational structure is the way it is?  Join us at Chapter Connect, where we will go through SWANA’s historical structure and how it applies to the chapters and your opportunities to become more involved.  This discussion, led by Regional Director James Moore, will also cover by-laws, chapter reporting requirements, and your roles and responsibilities as a chapter officer or director. Meet SWANA’s new General Counsel and get answers to your questions regarding chapter and SWANA governance!

For more information and your discount code, contact your Regional Director or Estela Martinez.