[Benzgirl]

This doesn't give my favorite, but it gives lots of ideas...
PROGRAMMING AND COLLABORATING:

Goodie bags for an Active Chapter

Pampered Chef

Teacher/Lakeland/Speak on Civil War

Speaker from your Philantrophy

Just Claying Around

Girl's Night Out

Jeweler - at a store, at home (Marlen Jewelers - west side)

Walk/Run in connection with a philanthropy

Salons / Spas

Beauty Color & Hair Programs

Loretta Paganinis Cooking School

Nordstroms

Catherine Gibbs - herbs

Dinner and a Movie

Millionaires Row program from Western Reserve Historical Society

Book Night

Music / Art Therapy - Wellness Center

Art Museum

Game Night

Lakeview Cemetery Tour

Pasta Part

Ritz Carlton High Tea

RAISE FUNDS:

Silent and Live Auctions

Indians (Jacobs Field) Tour / Terrace Club

Cook a dinner for 8 or 10 or 12

Golf, Bowling, Sporting Event

MORE PROGRAM IDEAS:
Should all programs of interest to retain members and attract new members.
Programs should be appealing to all ages; one group had 2 program chairs - 1 older / 1 younger.
Consider joint meetings ( east and west side chapters; other sororities, guest nights, include children and grandchildren for some programs where you need more people.
Some meetings might be only social with no business meeting or business concerns on a printed hand-out to be read later.
In one group, a survey of younger members revealed that they liked to do service projects as programs.
Programs on personal aspects have been successful as well as hands-on activities, philanthropy or projects.
One group had a different person in charge of each meeting. (Responsible for planning speaker, refreshments, and order.)
Read newspapers and programs from other groups for program ideas, all members could be on the look-out for programs they enjoyed in other groups.
SPECIFIC IDEAS:
Girl's Night Out: dinner in the Flats or restaurant; brewery, sporting event, play.
Seasonal projects; bring materials in and prepare at meeting. i.e. stocking stuffers to prepare Christmas stockings for a nursing home at Christmas; prepare an Easter basket.
Christmas meeting with hors d'oeuvres (one group had people bring 10 copies of their recipe so people could take one if they wished); might be a good one for guest night for husbands and significant others.
Make Christmas gifts for a nursing home.
Decorate T-shirts with iron-ons and fabric paints for children's hospital.
Make cloth toy bags and fill with crayons, coloring books, etc. for children in hospital or City Mission.
For Ronald McDonald House - cook dinners, make gifts for children in hospital.
Hands on Fall arrangements.
Line dancing and an ice cream social.
Do a project at Just Clayin' Around (cost involved).
Have a nurse come in with props and demonstrate how to do a breast exam.
Go to a beauty parlor or spa for a facial, etc. (cost)
Have a member in dialogue; travel, share their job, investments, finance, etc.
Program on personal hygiene or health; grooming, contact a hospital to see if they have a speaker's bureau.
Am Track has an office in Solon and has great program on training in America.
Speaker from Plantcrafters; showing plants, telling what to plant, how to plant and care for plants.
Bed and Breakfast speaker
Craft Night - have several members bring examples of crafts they do and demopnstrate (knitting, needlepoint, decorating boxes, making note paper.)
Auction of donated items as a fund raiser.
Players from Clague Play House put on the play "The Women's Committee" - contribution.
Brenda Koos Gallery at W. 6th and St. Clair (have cheese and crackers there)
Loretta Paganini - cooking demonstration
Wave from WWII gave a talk at the Woman's Aviation Museum and had a box lunch there.
Take a tour: Garfield's Home, Lakeview Cemetery, behind the scenes at the Science Center, a museum, the Art Museum, theatre, etc.