Membership


Membership Photo Contest

Here are the July Best photos that have been sent into the membershipdirector@calegion.org We had one Post who brought their sons out and made it a legion family event at the California State Fair. Then we have two booths set up in Area 2 with Helmets for Heroes helping membership. Great job to all of you and I look forward to seeing more pictures here in August.

Membership photo contest
Post 55 Laguna/Elk Grove

Membership photo contest
Membership Photo Contest

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.

Tools for Buddy Check Teams

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

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.

 

2023-2024 Membership Committee

*= Technical Advisor