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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!
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The 3rd Quarter OptiViews is
available online now. Click HERE to view.
Please note that this is a very large (11MB) file.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Michigan District Optimists West
had lively and productive discussions about how to
keep an Optimist Club healthy at our 2nd
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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Prescription
for a healthy Optimist Club |
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