Membership
CURRENT MEMBERSHIP STANDING
as of December 20, 2024
CURRENT TOTAL
49,447
GOAL
68,352
DEPARTMENT STANDING
29
TARGET DATES
| 50% | ✔ | |
| 55% | ✔ | |
| 65% | ✔ | |
| 75% | X | |
| January 15 | 80% | |
| February 12 | 85% | |
| March 12 | 90% | |
| April 9 | 95% | |
| May 14 | 100% |
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Mission Statement
Membership is the lifeblood of the American Legion. It is vitally important that we have a strong membership at the Post level. The effects of not having a strong membership at the Post level can be devastating to a Post. Therefore, let’s work on strengthening membership at the Post level and work as one group on one mission. By using all the tools at our disposal, we can strengthen the Post, Districts, Areas, Departments, and National. Let’s work on renewing current members and also on increasing our presence with the new Veterans who need our help. My chairs and I will be working to give support where and when needed to accomplish our mission of serving every Veteran who served this great nation.
Jeffrey Freeman
Membership Commission Chair
Department of California
candjf@future-tek.com
209-840-2253
TOOLS FOR BUDDY CHECK TEAMS
The American Legion has gathered together on one page an impressive collection of tools for Legionnaire to use when checking on their buddies.
Membership Resources
- District Status Report (PDF form)
- Manage Your Membership
- Member Data Form (PDF form) & Instructions
- Membership Impact Reports
- Membership Publications
- Membership Target Dates
- National Commander’s Pin
- Paid Up For Life
- Sample Post Handbook – DOC | PDF
- Transmittal PDF
- Year-End Membership Reports
2022 NATIONAL MEMBERSHIP WORKSHOP
The American Legion recently conducted its 59th annual National Membership Workshop. Here we had a motivational speaker, PNC Marty Conatser, who is currently the Illinois Department Adjutant. He came to share a message with us that needs to be told far and wide. A video of this talk can be found here.
The Membership Workshop PowerPoint presentations, printed materials, and many other documents that were part of our workshop can be found here.
Updated MyLegion.org PowerPoint Presentations
A one-stop shop for membership management
This article is from the 2021 Annual Report of The American Legion.
On April 1, 2021, The American Legion launched a new MyLegion.org platform that provides registered users with membership and individual account enhancements. The platform is a free, secure website for American Legion members, Sons of The American Legion members, and post, district and department officers. The project involved transferring millions of records from the old system and creating tens of thousands of lines of new code over a few months.
With a MyLegion.org account, American Legion and Sons of The American Legion members can manage their profile information (make updates to addresses, phone numbers, etc.); print membership cards; renew membership online or set up automatic membership renewal; view member-only discounts, from retail to travel; manage subscriptions to American Legion media content; access training tools; and more.
Another new membership initiative is Training Tuesdays. Since October 2020, on the last Tuesday of each month, American Legion National Headquarters staff members have presented 60- to 90-minute sessions on topics aimed at post commanders and adjutants. Each session is recorded and made available for later viewing.
