OPA is *FINALLY* moving to a biennial convention! Thank God!
But one of the issues we are grappling with is how to restructure the national awards that we currently give out at the annual convention. There is a wide variety of awards of different types:
- Some of them are given to multiple individuals (ex: individual achievement in service, outstanding chapter treasurer, etc).
- Some are given to multiple chapters who earn points by completing pre-defined activities in a program (ex: chapter excellence award, new chapter builder award).
- Some are based on convention travel at both the chapter level and individual level.
- Our most prestigious chapter awards are given to a single chapter. They compete with each other for this. (ex: service award, membership award)
As we plan our biennial convention rhythm, we are trying to decide whether to continue to give these awards on an annual basis because they drive great activity at the chapter level and we don't want to lose that on an ongoing basis. But if we don't give them out with a lot of hoopla at convention, will it still be as meaningful? Should we give them at convention during convention years, but leverage social media and technology to award them during non-convention years? We feel like the individual awards (where many recipients aren't at convention anyway) should continue to happen every year. And we feel like the convention-related travel awards should only happen in convention years. (Duh.) But we're torn about the other ones.
How do other GLOs on a biennial convention schedule manage their national awards?
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