COMMIT TEE REPORTS Diversity Admissions
• Strategized and developed the Enhanced Member Profile to ensure that MAC member voices are accounted and represented.
Mission Statement:
The purpose of the Diversity Admissions Program is to increase the diversity of Multnomah Athletic Club membership to better reflect the community in which we live.
House Mission Statement:
Julie Kim
Accomplishments:
• Conducted a review and developed recommendations to support the Membership Manager in enhancing the appeal and draw of MAC memberships.
• Collaborated with Engagement staff to integrate DAC memberships effectively into the onboarding and welcoming experience for new members. • Interviewed more than 30 distinguished community leaders and builders, endorsing their nomination to apply for membership. Ensured smooth onboarding through diligent follow-up with phone calls, emails, and club meetings by committee members. • Fostered a warm and engaging atmosphere at New Member Happy Hours, connecting with new and recent members while also leading informational club tours.
• Identified and reached out to Portland civic organizations to introduce them to MAC and inform them of the Diversity Admissions pathway to membership. • Participated in the DEI Education Module pilot and the Enhanced Demographic Survey from DEI Committee. • Evaluated the committee’s membership process and Policy & Procedure Manual, proposing constructive recommendations for refinement.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Mission Statement:
The Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee works to make MAC more welcoming to all members. The goal is to amplify voices and increase representation of the diverse range of members within this community. Accomplishments:
Devin Tau
• Completed the 2024-2025 board charge by prioritizing the 2023 Tsai Communications recommendations for the next three years.
Mission Statement:
Accomplishments:
Mike Kobelin
• Re-wrote various member communication documents to more clearly state the process of enforcement, investigating, and communicating with members and staff involved in the House Committee process.
• Continued to enforce the House mission statement: Recommend, monitor, and enforce rules of conduct for club members.
Member Events
Accomplishments:
Recommend and monitor policies and procedures for membership in the club, monitor current club trends impacting the sustainability of club membership, and, subject to the power of the board Jason Hickox in all cases, review and recommend membership-related engagement such as applications, resignations, exception requests, and other member inquiries to club membership programs. Provide organizational direction toward the recruitment, orientation, and integration of new members. In all manner, the Membership Committee is charged with recommending a consistent, equitable, and reasonable response to policy interpretation. Accomplishments:
Mission Statement:
The Member Events Committee oversees the social activity committees of the club. We support the creation of new and contemporary activities and add fresh touches to traditional events for members of all ages.
• The new Community & Heritage committee is now under the Member Events umbrella.
Membership
Recommend, monitor, and enforce rules of conduct for club members. • Completed a new MAC map that clearly shows what rules are applicable in each area.
• Administered the annual McAlpin and Al Taucher Awards and strives to receive nominations from MAC members.
• Identified “drop points” with Engagement staff to enhance retention strategies. • Ensured communication in The Winged M and member emails, introducing new membership categories and definitions, as well as new initiation fees. Mary Kay Rodman
• Voted to approve submitting the Senior Events Programming Initiative. The goal of this initiative is to build sustainable senior events beginning in 2025. The hope is to have events, classes, fitness programming, volunteer opportunities, and happy hours for the senior population at MAC. • Social committee events are identified as Trend, Pilot, and Signature. Trend events are first-year events that may or may not continue to another year, depending on their success. If successful, they will become a pilot event with a higher capacity for members and space priority. Signature events are events that are successful year after year; they are well-known MAC traditions. After every event, surveys are sent out to all attendees. The feedback is used to determine the success of the program. • For the first time, hosted semiannual social committee chair meetings. These give chairs the opportunity to meet other chairs and encourage collaboration with event planning, programing, and budgeting.
• Reviewed and made recommendations on existing membership categories, including introducing a new category for families of three or more, and refining the Family of Two membership, which updated the policy to include all children under a family membership. • Developed and supported the creation of an initiative allowing Intermediate members to “earn down” up to 50% of initiation fees, to encourage longer-term engagement.
• Continued collaboration on enhancing the welcome process, ensuring a quality onboarding into the club’s community and amenities, and maintained monthly happy hours to strengthen community bonds and membership retention.
• Reviewed strategies with the Membership Manager to strengthen the membership pipeline, bolstering sustained attraction to the club. This includes but is not limited to the development of a proposer recognition program. • Reviewed and affirmed policies for reinstating and non-resident members.
• Conducted thorough evaluations of roughly 400 applications for membership. Continued on page 37 MARCH 2025 | The Wınged M | 35