April marks the launch of the 2017 Chapter Recruiting Program. You should receive your annual recruiting list from national MOAA in the next week or so. The list contains the names of potential members who are eligible to join your chapter.

This list will also contain the names of current national MOAA members who live in your chapter’s proximity and who do not belong to your chapter. In addition, we periodically ask national MOAA (non-chapter) members to share their email addresses with their local chapter. Each recruiting list will incorporate all the national MOAA (non-chapter) member email addresses that have opted in for this correspondence from those living within a chapter’s geographic area for membership.

As you recruit new chapter members, make sure to report them to national MOAA via:

• the online Chapter Member Gain Form, which simplifies and automates the process of reporting new members. You can submit up to five new members in one submission or
• an Excel spreadsheet, an acceptable option particularly when reporting more than five new chapter members at a time. Please send the spreadsheet electronically to chapters@moaa.org.

The chapter recruiting program is designed to provide monetary incentives to chapters that comply with the intent of the program. Keep in mind, not all recruits will qualify for the incentive. Your chapter will not receive a monetary-incentive credit if the new chapter member is

• not eligible for national MOAA membership or failed to join MOAA or
• submitted as a new chapter member gain but previously was reported to MOAA as a chapter member within the past three years.

For additional details about Chapter Recruiting 2017, visit www.moaa.org/chapterrecruiting.