Democratic Women of Pender County

Dear All,

Thanks to all of you for making our 2025 Planning Meeting such a success.  About 50 people showed up at the Rocky Point Community Center on January 11th to share ideas and set our course for the coming year.  

We started out by talking about how far we have come as an organization.  DWPC met and surpassed each goal that we set out for ourselves during the 2024 planning meeting.  You can see that our 2025 goals will be challenging - but the group believes that we can meet each one.

Ideas for 2025 fundraising to reach our goal of $15,000 included sponsoring a sporting event, recuring monthly sustaining donations through ActBlue, a cookbook, yard sales and craft fair among others.  Even though this is not an election year, we need to build up our reserves for the all importatnt 2026 elections.

We set our membership goal at 150.  We started the meeting at 135 - but by the end of the meeting, we were at 137 because 2 people joined during the meeting!!!  Our 2025 Membership drive will start later this month.  We are going digital - so look for an upcoming email explaining how you can renew your membership on-line.

The group then discussed having quarterly informational meetings to increase membership engagement.  Many possible topics were suggested - our Advocacy and Activism Committee would love to hear your suggestions.  

Community support has always been an important aspect of DWPC.  Last year, with all our efforts directed at the elections, these efforts languished.  In 2025, we will resume these efforts by identifying community needs and work to address them.

Finally, it was decided that DWPC needs to be more involved with our government meetings.  These include our Pender Board of Commissioners, the Library Board, and Land Use Planning Committee.  We need to know what is being reviewed so we can be part of the conversation.

We ended the meeting by selecting dates for upcoming events for the 2025-2026.

Thank you again for your participation and all the good ideas that you shared.  

Martha Harris    DWPC President

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