Region 3 Director Elect Report - January 2009

Region 3,

Director Ratcliff has asked me to chair an ad hoc committee to review and
develop support options for Region 3 IEEE Members that have been affected
by current economic issues. Let me know if you would like to volunteer to
help on this important committee.

In the meantime, Region 3 does have a Employment Assistance web site at,

https://ewh.ieee.org/reg/3/ea/

I do need all of you to review the site and let me know of updates and
additions. I am particularly interested in improving the employment
assistance links for each of our Region 3 states.

I have attached the latest Membership Development Report for Region 3. As
of this November report, Region 3 has 30,313 total members. We are down
slightly from 2007. We do have several outstanding Sections in terms of
membership growth versus November, 2007,

 - Gainesville Section, 64 new members

 - Mobile Section, 14.8 % growth

The IEEE 125th Anniversary year has arrived and Region 3 is a big part of
it,

https://www.ieee125.org/

Let's use this celebration as a goal and a challenge to grow Region 3 to
its biggest and best every. Every one of our Region 3 "renewing" members
received four Member Get A Member, MGM, cards in the envelope containing
their new Membership Card. Please encourage all of your Section members to
use these cards and give them to associates at work and ask them to join
the best professional organization in the world. A enotice from the Section
EXCOM to your local members with this encouragement would be a great idea.
You can order more MGM cards at,

https://ewh.ieee.org/forms/md/supplies.php

You can even print and customize your own MGM cards for special events with
the AVERY formatted sheet that is attached. Remember, EWEEK 2009 is coming.
You may ask, what's the big deal with these MGM cards ? The answer is, if
you use them, they work. Just think, we could double the size of Region 3
in early 2009 if every member used these MGM cards. I'm counting on you to
ask everyone to help.

Also make sure that you have a active Membership Development Chair in your
Section. Don't forget to submit their name to the IEEE Officer Database at,

https://ewh.ieee.org/forms/scs/interactofficer.php

Thanks for all of your help.

Sincerely,

Lee Stogner, PMP
Region 3 Membership Development Chair
Region 3 Director Elect, 2008 - 2009