“Impact Venture Capitalists!”

Morning Team!…

Two Impact Club Events to celebrate last night. Collectively, over $20,000 donated to two incredible local charities.

Congrats Temecula & Union City!!

(proud of you all)

In the next 30 days, we’re going to start transitioning every Impact Club member away from cash or check donations, and into credit card donations for a couple of important reasons:

1 – SAFETY

With the rapid expansion of Impact Club, where some Impact Clubs have 200+ members, that means huge amount of cash is being collected at the door. Five, ten, even $15,000 at a recent event.

I don’t know about you. But that terrifies me. After the hours of dusk, 7/11 won’t keep more than $100 in the cash register. And here we have five, ten, even 15K sitting in an envelope next to the door.

Then, we send that cash home with the winning charity –

“Here, $15,000 in cash.”

“Safeguard it.”

So yes, this modification from cash/check donations to digital processing, has been long needed. It’s only a matter of time, if we don’t make the switch, that an Impact Club will be robbed – putting everyone in danger.

Being proactive, oppose to reactive, is a must. I would forever regret it, if something happened.

2 – CONVENIENCE

We have heard you. And we have been listening to ALL of you. We know cash and check donations are highly inefficient and inconvenient. Especially, when you aren’t able to make it the night of the event.

Then people forget.

Then they have to find their checkbook. They have to find a stamp. An envelope. Then have to remember to put it to the mailbox, like it’s the 1950’s. Or since cash isn’t sent in the mail, donation requires an actual delivery.

All the while, members have said – “Can’t I just Paypal it to you…”

“Can’t I use a credit card?”

“Can’t I Venmo?”…

Then, did I mention, people forget? So, a month goes by. Then two months. And the charity that won the majority vote, still waits on the donation committed by each member of Impact Club. Which isn’t fair to them. So, in addition to Safety, convenience is a huge factor.

3 – NO ONE LIKES BEING A BILL COLLECTOR

In fact, recently, I’ve heard from several co-founders that they’ve lost friends. Because, when they try to follow-up to collect donations from members who committed to donate, but didn’t make it the night of the event, there has been some festering resentment involved.

Those member promise to send the donation. “It’s in the mail…”

Then forget.

So co-founders remind them. Text #2…

The member says, “Oh yeah, I forgot. I’ll get that to you…” Then they forget again.

Text #3…

And well – you see where there is going!

When someone makes a commitment to donate, to impact their local community. To help and impact local charities. You should haven’t to hound them. And co-founders certainly don’t like it either.

So, in addition to Safety and Convenience, the elimination of Strenuous follow-up is huge too.

4 – MEMBER MANAGEMENT

With the (soon) launch of Impact Club’s new Infrastructure, which includes a full membership site. It will be easy for Members to manage their donations. Update credit card for donation. Etc.

Or even cancel their membership. (which is ok)

Some members, instead of having the courage to just say, “I think I’m going to cancel.” They ignore the communication of our co-founders, when they follow-up to collect donation. Text #1… Email #1…

Text #2… Email #2…

I mean, c’mon folks, we know you’re getting them. People sleep next to their phone.

That said, inside of the new membership site, under Account & Profile, each member can conveniently manage their membership. Stay. Go. Update their form of donation on file, it’ll all be easy.

5 – BETTER FOR THE WINNING CHARITY

Local charities are burdened enough, often struggling to find ways to do more with less. Less time. Less resources. Less manpower. So, to now have to issue 100 or 200 or 300 tax receipts, can be crippling.

So, by integrating with a 3rd party non-profit, as our donation-processor, we have removed that burden from the local charity. You, each member, also, will get your tax receipt instantly.

No more waiting weeks, or even months, for them to be issued.

On top of that, instead of manually collecting donations for months after the actual event. The winning charity, the very next day, will be issued the full of amount committed by Impact Club members. Which means, immediately, they can start impacting lives.

Boom!!

So, those are the five Core Reasons.

Some I’m sure, will reject this shift, maybe even drop their membership. I get that. But like I said, being proactive is essential. On the grounds of Safety alone, this issue can’t be ignored.

Stay tuned.

Big advancements on the horizon! (Exciting.)

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Keep inspiring,

-RYAN

Co-Founder, Impact Club

IMPACT #2 – THE UPDATED LEADERBOARD

Here’s how the leaderboard stacks up this week!!

The Leaderboard looks like this: MEMBER COUNT (THIS WEEK vs. LAST WEEK)

TEMECULA —————————————– 201 – 207

NORTHERN VA —————————- 178 – 180

FREDERICK ———————————————————– 289

YUMA ————————————————203 – 210

CONEJO VALLEY ——— 70

EUGENE —–—————- 80 – 87

BOISE ——————————————————— 223

FOX CITIES ————————— 128

UNION CITY ————- 53

HIGHLANDS ——————————————— 211

COEUR D’ALENE —————-– 114

WILMINGTON ———————————– 186

S. CANTERBURY ————— -107

Tri Town ————– 37

Leaderboard: PROJECTED QUARTERLY IMPACT

TEMECULA —————————————– $20,700/qtr

NORTHERN VA —————————— $18,000/qtr

FREDERICK ————————————————————- $28,900/qtr

YUMA ————————————————— $21,000/qtr

CONEJO VALLEY ——– $7,000/qtr

EUGENE ———————— $8,700/qtr

BOISE ———————————————————— $22,300/qtr

FOX CITIES ————————— $12,800/qtr

UNION CITY ———– $5,300/qtr

HIGHLANDS ——————————————– $21,100/qtr

COEUR D’ALENE —————- $11,400/qtr

WILMINGTON ———————————- $18,600/qtr

SOUTH CANTERBURY ——– $10,700/qtr

Tri Town ————- $3,700

IMPACT CLUB: Projected Quarterly Impact = $210,200/qtr To Local Charities

ANNUAL PROJECTED: $840,800/year To Local Charities

While Impact Clubs compete to have fun. For motivation. For camaraderie. I never want us to lose sight of the bigger mission, which is… to profoundly Impact our local communities. We compete to inspire. Not to defeat…

IMPACT #3, #4, #5 – KEEP INSPIRING OTHERS!

Once we launch the new infrastructure and work through the process of transitioning all current members, in each local Impact Club, to the new members’ site. We’ll start launching new clubs.

That is, after all, my favorite part. To see the creation of that initial nucleus in each local community. Those folks, “Your voice is more powerful than your money,” then inspire others.

Upcoming Impact Club dates:

Jan 16th – Impact Club Yuma (AZ – 5th Event)

Jan 18th – Impact Club Eugene (OR – 3rd Event)

Jan 29th – Impact Club Highlands (TN – 3rd Event)

Jan 31st – Impact Club Northern VA – (5th Event)

Feb 19th – Impact Club S. Canterbury (NZ – 2nd Event)

Feb 20th – Impact Club Frederick (MD – 5th Event)

Feb 20th – Impact Club Conejo Valley (CA – 4th Event)

Feb TBA – Impact Club Tri Town (IN – 2nd Event)

March 7th – Impact Club Boise (ID – 4th Event)

March 8th – Impact Club Coeur d’Alene (ID – 3rd Event)

March 12th – Impact Club Wilmington (NC – 3rd Event)

March 15th – Impact Club Loveland (OH – 1st Event)

March TBD – Impact Club Fox Cities (WI – 4th Event)

More announced soon…

In January alone, nearly hundred thousand will be donated to local charities!

-Ryan Fletcher

Co-Founder, Impact Club – forever Grateful.

PS: Encourage everyone you know to learn the Language of Story. If they do, life, business, fundraising, relationships, the attraction of opportunity, clients, money, love, etc. will be much easier for them.