Membership

Building a strong, cohesive membership is a huge and ongoing challenge. There are always new members joining who need orientation to the group and former members moving on who need to be added to the alumni roles. Keeping the recordkeeping straight is no easy task either! Check out the sections below for tools and example documents to help with maintaining your membership.

Member Orientation:

Member Handbook:

Attendance Policy:

Software:

Member Dues:

Dues are a necessary fact of life for most of our member choruses although a few choruses have experimented with eliminating dues and just requesting contributions and have generally had good results. This section includes some data from GALA’s operations survey on dues practices.

Membership Dues Practices
The document provides the data gathered in GALA's operations survey on dues practices and amounts.

Scholarships:

Alumni Relations:

Chorus alumni are a great source of volunteer and financial support. Keeping alumni engaged with the chorus may also encourage them to return to active membership when their schedules permit.

Alumni Relations
PDF
Slide show from a workshop presented at Festival 2012 containing an extensive list of ideas for engaging alumni

Alumni Relations Handout
PDF
Companion handout to the slides above

Alumni Checklist
Survey to be used with alumni

Moving and Looking for a Chorus?

Use our world chorus map to find a chorus in the city you are moving to or even just a city where you will be visiting.

Struggling with Board and Staff Boundaries?

GALA 411 Advisor Eve Campbell is absolutely the best at helping member choruses to face up to issues causing the chorus to run less smoothly than you would like. Apply to work with Eve through the 411 program.