Attendees: Jerry Alperstein NY; Jerry Blum CT; Elliott Donn CT; Michael Corbett FL; Hannah Deutch NY; PNC Warren S. Dolny NY; Jason Katz NY; Larry Holman PA; PNC Monroe Mayer NY; PNC Norman Rosenshein NJ; Steve Zeitz PA; Herb Zemble PA; Jack Zuckerman NY
Staff: NEC Herb Rosenbleeth; Larry Richardson; Cheryl Waldman
Subject: Long-Term Planning
- Important to address future viability of the JWV
- Importance of financial planning by asking to be included in members' estate planning
- Posts should partner with synagogues and JCCs at local level to go after new members, but, on the whole, synagogues are not very cooperative
- Offer to do an educational program for synagogues as way to form partnership
- Posts need to look at their spending to be prepared for possible drop in membership as older members pass away
- Important to offer something to new members to keep interested
- Must offer new members substantive role in posts and work through them to get their friends to become members
- Must ensure that posts are vital and conducting meetings by closing inactive posts and merging posts to form more active groups
- Proposal that no one should be Post Commander for more than 2 years
- Too many Posts have become just breakfast clubs and don't have enough JWV programs
