Committee Leadership

The committees of Austin NARI are responsible for all of the great events and programming that NARI offers its members. Please consider joining a committee today. We need your enthusiam and ideas to keep the Austin NARI chapter outstanding!

Membership Committee

The main purpose of the Membership Committee is to assist the Executive Director in growing the membership and retaining existing Members.

Benefits of Membership committee is that you get to know lots of people and have direct access to new and potential members. You create on going relationships with existing members which enhances and promote future or current business relationships.

First meeting – review plan for the year including goals for retention and new membership.

The Membership Committee will begin the year with an ongoing aggressive Membership Drive. Throughout the year it will implement a plan to continue to seek out and sign-up new members as well as retain existing members.

Duties

  • Reach out to all new members with a phone call (assign 1 person from committee)
    • Offer opportunities to join committees
    • Share upcoming events
    • Follow up with an email
  • Mentor new members –
    • update them on upcoming events etc
    • Check in with new member via email or text or call
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    • Assist in the Membership Orientation with the ED
      • To be held at vendor showroom or virtual
    • Assist the ED in reaching out to the member not active or about to drop and see what assistance they need to remain an active member

    Meetings

    • Welcoming new members and prospects, introducing new members to current members during all events
    • Follow up with potential members and guests that attend our events

    Programming Committee

    The main purpose of the Programming Committee is to develop and support, educational meetings and engaging events for the Austin NARI membership.

    The initial Committee Meeting should be spent brainstorming and strategizing the next year•s events to the best of their knowledge and ability so that the events and meetings can be input into the Associations calendar.

    GMM meetings need to be scheduled out one year in advance. The June, July, and August Socials should also be planned a year in advance. BRTs should be planned in advance as much as possible. Additional Socials can be planned as opportunity arrises to provide supplemental opportunities for networking and socialization.

    Subcommittees

    Builder Round Tables – Designed for Builders, Architects, and Designers, this Roundtable format includes topics to educate this group with discussions geared toward the building industry.

    • Assist ED in finding relevant speakers and topics for the bi-monthly meetings

      • Assist the ED in promoting the event by preparing descriptions of the topics for the constant contact e-blasts and calendar descriptions

      • also work with the marketing committee and our social media manager on getting the information posted and distributed to the membership via Instagram and Facebook
    • Assist ED in getting sponsorships for the events
      • calling on associate members to host the location and provide lunch
      • more than one sponsor (of non-competing entities) can be assigned if need be – one to provide lunch and one to host the location, for example

    General Membership Meetings – GMMs are large format gatherings designed to inform the membership on the state of the Association and to provide informative, educational, or up-and-coming topics that benefit the membership as a whole (both builder and associate members). We generally plan for 7 meeting during the year (Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, May,Sept, Oct).

    • Assist ED in getting speakers with topics focused on the entire Membership with educational and networking opportunities.
    • Assist ED in getting Table Top sponsorships for the meetings
    • Making announcements at the meetings of upcoming events/socials and introducing the speaker at the meeting
    • Assist in acquiring food vendors for the lunch meeting, coordinating logistics for food drop off and/or pick up and arranging staging of food
    • Assist clean up after events if necessary
    • Assist the ED in promoting the event by preparing descriptions of the topics for the constant contact e-blasts and calendar descriptions
      • also work with the marketing committee and our social media manager on getting the information posted and distributed to the membership via Instagram and Facebook

    Socials – Socials are designed to promote camaraderie and networking opportunities in a fun and engaging format. They are typically come-and-go type activities. We generally plan for 3-6 socials during the year (Jun, July, Aug, and a few other random socials as needed or as the opportunity presents itself).

    • Support ED in finding vendor showrooms or venues to host socials
    • Assist with finding sponsorships for food, beverages, and door prizes
    • Assist with promoting this event to our members and any guests
    • Assist the ED in promoting the event by preparing descriptions of the topics for the constant contact e-blasts and calendar descriptions
      • also work with the marketing committee and our social media manager on getting the information posted and distributed to the membership via Instagram and Facebook

    Tour of Remodeled Homes Committee

    The Tour of Remodeled Homes Committee provides an avenue for all NARI members to showcase their product or service to the public is to provide the consumer with a tangible resource to find and hire knowledgeable, ethical, and skilled industry professionals by giving them an opportunity to meet our members and see their product is to create brand awareness to the public: educating homeowners on the caliber and quality of our members (be it a vendor or design-build professional)

    Committee Seats

    NARI Board of Directors Liaison: Is a member of the Austin NARI Board of Directors and acts as a representative for the committee by reporting agenda, updates, concerns and/or requests to the Board of Directors. Attends all (General) ToRH Committee Meetings and attends sub-committee meetings as needed.

    Chairman: Coordinates and plans all monthly committee meetings. Delegates duties amongst the subcommittee members, oversees all meetings, follows up with committee members and their duties, coordinates with the Board Liaison to give updates, requests, agenda, etc. to report to the Board of Directors. Attends all (General) ToRH Committee Meetings and attends sub-committee meetings as needed.

    Builder Liaison: Leads the selection process of the builder entries. Duties include visiting the homesite of each tour house submission to check for logistics, parking, flow and content, level of completion, etc., to assess if the submission is compliant of submission criteria and acceptable for selection. Lays out the map for tour once entries are selected. Contacts the Remodelers to let them know whether or not they’ve been selected to be featured on the tour and if so gives them the info about Builder Meetings, important dates, and deadlines. Coordinates with the Chairman to to schedule the (2) Builder Meetings. Is responsible for procuring a place for the Builder Meetings. Writes (or updates current documents) the agenda and Power Point presentations for both Builder Meetings. Conducts the Builder Meetings. Works in coordination with the Executive Director to put together the folders with the agenda for the Builder Meetings. Is available for questions from Remodeler Participants.

    Sub Committees

    Volunteer Coordinator(s): Recruits volunteers to help docent tour houses in the event that participating remodelers need additional assistance or last minute docents/helpers. Connects the enlisted volunteer recruits with the most appropriate remodeler participants.

    Sponsorships/Advertising Coordinator(s): Works in coordination with the Executive Director to perform all duties and tasks associated with the promotion, advertising and marketing of the ToRH. Duties include but not limited to: the solicitation of sponsors and advertisers for the ToRH and it’s Tour Guide, putting together media kits for ad requirements, determining the different sponsorship levels/packages, works with the different media outlets to decide the marketing and advertising packages for tour promotion, coordinates deadlines with the media and advertising outlets, etc.

    Promotions and Graphics Coordinator(s): Coordinates with the Executive Director and Sponsorships/Advertising Coordinator to develop graphics for promoting the tour. He/She is responsible for designing or procuring a graphic designer to assist with the development of graphics for promotions on the NARI website, FaceBook page, social media outlets, Tour Guide and Tour Guide Cover, Call for Entries, etc.

    Premier Party Coordinator(s): Is responsible for procuring the Premier Party Sponsor as well as the determining the location, time, and agenda for the Premier Party. Also coordinates, procures and/or assists the Premier Party Sponsor with decorations, door prizes, agenda for the event, music, food, beverages, etc.

    Judging: Exacted by the Executive Director. Works to find appropriate, discrete, non-biased, professional judges for the Best of Show (a.k.a. Judges Choice) Award.

    *All Committee Members: will divide up duties of calling on builders to solicit entries as well as requesting sponsorships from NARI Members.

    *All Committee Members can be a part of different or multiple sub-committees throughout the progression of planning as one need phases in and out.