The Southern Four Wheel Drive Association Board of Directors continues its hard work to refocus our association and our efforts for 2015. As most of you are aware, the association is implementing sweeping changes to the membership structure. Additionally we introduced the SFWDA Grant program to allow each of our member clubs to directly address the needs of your local area and communities with this tool. The key to our grant program is that we embrace our core missions of Conservation, Recreation and Education.
As we prepare for our SFWDA Annual Leadership meeting on December 6, 2014 at the DoubleTree Hotel, Oak Ridge, TN, we are preparing this overview of the changes in our membership structures so our exiting clubs can plan for the New Year. The Board of Directors reviewed at the September 22, 2014 on-line meeting a number of technical issues and design issues. We have agreed to focus our new membership energies using an integrated tool that allows us to manage the association membership, all events and SFWDA communications. Membee (www.membee.com) is a web-based solution for membership based organizations.
BOD Online Meeting Summary -
SFWDA BOD Members and others participating with on-line meeting:
Ray Stanley, Brian Overly, Doyle Punches, Jon Plaza, Walter Shafer, Lucas Weidner, Jeremy Rose, Greg Griffith, Flint Holbrook. Roger Theurer
We are very pleased to announce that our newest 4x4 club to join SFWDA for the very first time is Rock Corps 4x4 out of Marion, NC. We are in our 6th year since we formed. They started out with six guys, just looking for somewhere local to wheel.
We are very pleased to announce that a Knoxville, TN based club founded in 2006 has joined the ranks of our association. A big welcome to Jason Stroup, Ben Critichlow and Johnathan Sullivan and their fellow members.
As we approach the 28th annual Dixie Run on September 25-28, 2014, I want to share some perspectives on the challenges, changes and our path forward for our association.
Let's all welcome our newest business member. This company was founded by fellow Jeepers and has a ton of great products to offer online.
Southern Four Wheel Drive Association is proud to announce that Dave Logan will represent us again within the GA RTP grant program. Loren Miller the Grants Coordinator of the Recreational Trails Program working for the Georgia State Parks & Historic Sites - DNR has approved our nomination and continues to support our associations core mission.
As we prepare for Dixie Run 28, September 25-28, 2014, we are including the new Individual Membership as a NET $0 cost to all registrants.
United Four Wheel Drive Associations Inc. (UFWDA) were delighted to award their 2014 Environmental Affairs Four Wheeler of the Year Award to Chris Brower of the Carolina Trail Blazers Club (a Southern Four Wheel Drive Association and UFWDA member club) to recognize on an international level, the significant achievements of individuals to recreational four wheeling.
