Passing the Baton to New Booster Club Officers

How to ensure your booster club's legacy is a good one.

Nominations for new booster club officers will be here before you know it, as terms for current officers are winding down. How can experience officers help ensure a smooth transition? After all, you're not just replacing people; you're handing off the organization's objectives and philosophy.

You also want to make sure the tools used to help you reach your goals are transferred onto the next board.

The ultimate goal is not just for the group to continue to exist but for it to grow stronger long after the current members are gone.

Here are some ways to pass the baton smoothly to the next group of officers.

Keep in Touch with Retiring Officers

Make sure retiring officers don't disappear. Arrange to have a couple of meetings between the new and retiring officers. Meet once before the end of the present term to discuss remaining activities and how things have been run, and a second time just before the start of the new term. The second meeting allows new officers to ask more specific questions on how things should function. By now, they have had a chance to review the material received from the first meeting.

Pass on helpful Documentation

Hopefully, you've documented how specific tasks were accomplished. Information should be available electronically and in hard copy, including organizational bylaws, meeting minutes, and critical outside contacts.

Your Booster Club's Goals Are the Same

Perhaps the most important thing is that both incoming and outgoing officers have the same goal. To make the booster club run as smoothly as possible to benefit the students and organization it serves better.

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Author Bio

Clay Boggess has been designing fundraising programs for schools and various nonprofit organizations throughout the US since 1999. He’s helped administrators, teachers, and outside support entities such as PTAs and PTOs raise millions of dollars. Clay is an owner and partner at Big Fundraising Ideas.