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ore than 150 MOAA council and chapter leaders and their spouses
attended the association’s 19th an- nual Chapter Leaders’ Symposium Sept. 22-24 in Las Vegas. It began with a dinner, where
MOAA President and CEO Lt. Gen. Dana T. Atkins, USAF (Ret), ad- dressed symposium attendees dur- ing a keynote speech. He praised council and chapter leaders for their grassroots advocacy efforts, including sending legislative emails and letters to leaders of Congress, working with their local elected officials to advance key legislation, and participating in Storming the Hill each spring. He concluded by asking everyone to stay engaged and by thanking all council and chapter leaders for their commitment to never stop serving.
The following day, council and chapter leaders attended several general sessions to learn about the health and future of the council and chapter system, meeting member- ship challenges, legislative news, changes to MOAA’s electronic newsletters, and MOAA’s benefits, services, and marketing and mem- bership efforts.
Council and chapter leaders also participated in breakout work- shops, where presidents reviewed management techniques, member- ship chairs discussed recruiting and retention, and legislative chairs learned how to strengthen their grassroots advocacy efforts at the national and state levels. At the closing session, partici- pants learned about MOAA’s leg- islative victories and the status of pending legislation. Council and
The 2016 Chapter Leaders’ Symposium drew affiliate leaders from MOAA’s West region, which includes six councils and 94 chapters, to exchange ideas for improvement.
chapter leaders shared best prac- tices and ideas to improve chapter recruiting and retention and legisla- tive efforts. Key presentations from the 2016 Chapter Leaders’ Sympo- sium can be found at
www.moaa .org/2016chaptersymposium.
New training model For nearly 20 years, MOAA has hosted annually a conference in one of the country’s four geographic regions. Maintaining the training of chapter leaders residing in the other three regions during out-of-cycle years always has been a challenge. Beginning in 2017, MOAA will
transition to a new council and chapter leadership workshop model so we can offer training in all four regions of the country throughout the year. We believe the new model will allow for more interaction
New Grant Program to Benefit Chapters
The MOAA Military Family Initiative (MMFI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit subsidiary foundation, was launched in 2014. Since then, two full years of opera- tions have transpired, and the foundation exceeded its revenue goal both years. MMFI’s mission is to provide lifelong career-development support to currently serv- ing military families and veterans of all ranks and their survivors, to ensure they enjoy the quality of life they so richly deserve. It focuses on five critical areas of career- development needs: career transition, military spouse career development, financial education outreach,
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warrior-family reintegration, and VA disability/survivor claims information, assistance, and referral. Given the success of the foundation, we are pleased to
announce the launch of the MMFI Council/Chapter Com- munity Grant program in 2017. Through this program, the MMFI will fund a minimum of five grants of not more than $5,000 each to MOAA chapters or councils in direct sup- port of community programs related to military spouse career development and warrior-family reintegration. The MMFI currently is finalizing many of the details of the pro- gram. Stay tuned for more information.
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