Membership report: 2025-03
Submitted by Jayson MacLean, Chair
Report on the OOECA 2024 Membership Drive
Memberships received:
- E-transfer 88
- Farmers Market 31
- Singing Pebble 13
- Canvassing 421
- Total 553
Membership drive comparison with previous years
- 2024: 553
- 2023: 377
- 2022: 537
- 2021: 530
- 2020: 458
Membership dues and donations
- Total received $3,231.20
- Expenses $534.17
- Net revenue $2,697.03
Expenses
- Office supplies $21.37
- Printing $386.30
- OOECA banner $91.50
- Bank charges $35.00
- Total $534.17
Area captains
- Area captains needed: 6
- Participating area captains in 2024: 4
Canvassers
- Canvassers needed (approx.): 65
- Participating canvassers in 2024: 44
Notables on the 2024 drive
- Our canvassers did very well in a number of areas, especially in the Greystone
neighbourhood. Thank you!! - Accepting dues via e-transfer proved successful, although the large number of
individual transactions resulted in bank charges. - Some sections of OOE are very well covered by canvassers and captains while
others are not. The area north of the Queensway and the northwest area (west of
Main, north of Clegg) both need more volunteers going forward.
Plans for the next drive
- Recruit more canvassers for the neglected streets.
- Figure out if there’s a way around the bank charges.
- We collected email addresses from members who paid their dues online and at
the in-person events like the Farmers Market. We’ll talk with the OOECA
Communications Committee about potentially creating an email list for periodic
mailouts to members. If it seems worthwhile and appropriate, we can make the
collection of email addresses a more integrated part of the membership drive.
A big thank-you to everyone who helped out!