The 4th Quarter Michigan District Convention at Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire is Labor Day weekend. The convention registration form is available by clicking HERE. Save $15 when you register before August 22, but it is very important that you make your room reservations before August 20. Click HERE for a room reservation form that MUST be mailed or faxed to Shanty Creek Resort. This is the ONLY way in which you can make a room reservation. The resort has just completed a $10 million renovation project and looks incredible. Don't let other holiday tourists get the room you wanted, so make your reservations NOW!

The 3rd Quarter OptiViews is available online now. Click HERE to view. Please note that this is a very large (11MB) file.

The Michigan District Optimist Junior Golf Tournament will be held June 22-23 on Schuss Mountain Course at Shanty Creek Resort in Bellaire.

Michigan District Junior Golf chairperson Sherry Regiani has prepared a list of Junior Golf Qualifying Tournaments. Click HERE to find the location and date of the tournament nearest you. If your Club is not listed, please e-mail Sherry by clicking HERE.

Click HERE to download an official Junior Golf registration form.

The deadline for submitting this form is February 15!
Important reminder for ALL Club Treasurers: As part of the Pension Protection Act of 2006, tax-exempt organizations with gross receipts of $25,000 or less are required to file with the IRS a Form 990-N information return, also known as an "e-postcard." This e-postcard will ask for basic identifying information such as the organization’s legal name, address, employee identification number, and the name and address of its principal officer. The IRS has now issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions about the e-postcard filing requirements, which can be found at http://www.irs.gov/charities/article/0,,id=173864,00.html.

Welcome to the newest Optimist Club in the Michigan District! The WSU Warriors Optimist Club at Wayne State University was sponsored by Northwest and Delta Chi Optimist Clubs of Detroit. Congratulations to Builders of Excellence Fatima Plater and Charles Green.

District Membership Chairperson Jan Oord has supplied three tools for your use in increasing your Club's membership and in reaching your goal of becoming an Honor Club.

Click HERE to view the ideas presented at the Membership breakout session from the 1st Quarter District Meeting. Click on each page to advance to the next page. Click on your browser's Back button to return to this page.

Click HERE to view and print OI President Don Sievers' "High Five Action Plan" for Clubs to plan for achieving Honor Club status during the 2008-2009 year.

Click HERE to view and print the Michigan District's Membership Action Planning tool.

Information from the Michigan District Directory CD has been added to this site. Please review the pages for District Officers, District Committees, and Club Directory. If you find any incorrect or incomplete information, please click HERE to send an e-mail to the Directory Committee and the Webmaster and specify what updates still need to be made.

One of the breakout sessions conducted by Jan Oord and Don Brose at the 4th Quarter Michigan District Convention was about fund raising. Jan created a Powerpoint slide show of the ideas generated at this session. Click HERE to learn some of the successful fund raising programs used by other Michigan District Optimist Clubs. NOTE: This is a large file! Click on each page to advance to the next page. Click on your browser's Back button to return to this page.

Michigan District Optimists West had lively and productive discussions about how to keep an Optimist Club healthy at our 2^nd quarter Optimist meeting on February 9 in Kalamazoo. Click HERE to view the list of ideas that the 7 tables generated.

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