Be a Club Host with The Pledgettes in 2025!
You are what makes this community so special! If you love The Pledgettes and enjoy facilitating money talks, you may be a great fit to become a Club Host.
The Role, Responsibilities, and Rewards of Being a Club Host
1 - Role
As a Pledgettes Club Host, we want to feature you more in our community and be seen as a leader in the community. Jenn's goal is that every Pledgette will feel connected to a host by name (and that it's not always Jenn). Your role, as a leader, is to be welcoming and inclusive. We want different views celebrated and a safe space for people to share.
2 - Responsibilities
As a Pledgettes Club Host, your responsibilities include:
- planning your events: you'll select the dates/times for your club. (And work with Jenn so it's in sync with other clubs). Some clubs pick a repeated date/time, others have some flexibility to try to catch people at different times
- prepare any topics, exercises, and conversation starters. For Virtual events, we'll use Zoom so you can utilize breakouts, chat, reactions, etc.
- as a Club Host, you are responsible for facilitating discussions. You are not responsible for having the answers. It's helpful to have some resources in your back pocket to share
- post in The Pledgettes about your event: pre-event, post-event recap
- invite Pledgettes (and you can invite your friends too)
3 - Rewards.
As a reward for your effort in making The Pledgettes community great, you will receive a membership reimbursement for the year and a stipend around $100 (based on how many events you host). Our goal is to increase this stipend as we increase membership revenue.
Here's what our 2024 Hosts are saying!
Allie Beckmann shared, "Being a Club Host for the Pledgettes was a meaningful way for me to embody my value of giving back and supporting my community. I really enjoyed my time getting to know the members on a deeper level!"
In Vanessa McFarlane’s words, "Hosting the podcast club is a great way to collectively talk about relevant issues in society and how that's affected women and their finances. There's so much more to talk about and learning about ways to use money to fight the patriarchy is my favorite thing to talk about in The Pledgettes. Podcasts are great for this!"
Heidi Buckout said that "hosting movie club got me out of my usual volunteer lane. I'm often asked to do social media and marketing, this was a new challenge for me. I loved brainstorming movie ideas with Jenn, leading discussions, and learning new perspectives from fellow Pledgettes."
The Pledgettes Clubs
We are open to new ideas of discussion and social clubs. But here are what we're looking for 2025!
Financial Friends Virtual. This is a social club, like Financial Friends Denver but meets monthly in a Zoom Room! I have been hosting this club since 2019 and would be happy to have a new host here!
Financial Friends Denver. This is a social group that meets monthly! Stephanie Vail has done a great job of bringing in cohosts and picking locations all over Denver. This social club is an opportunity to show up to talk about money with your Financial Friends. Stephanie won't be hosting in 2025, so we're looking for a new host...or co-hosts.
Healthy Wealthy Hikes Denver. Last summer we did some Healthy Wealthy Walks. Lisa Elder will be bring a new version of that in 2025 with some easy hikes in the area.
Book Club. Book clubs meets every other month! Jessi Burg has more travel planned for 2025 and is look for a host to take over or a co-host!
Podcast Club. We plan for Podcast Club to meet every other month (when book club isn't meeting). Becky Migaswill be our 2025 Podcast Club Host!
Movie Club. Movie Club will be meeting quarterly in 2025 and Heidi Buckhout will continue as Movie Club host!
Investing Club. We did a test of this club in October and Katy Schweigerdt is leading our December event! We'll keep this going in 2025. And maybe we'll add Budgeting Club too if there is interest.
Wealthy Working Session. I currently host our twice monthly virtual cohosting hour to organize your finances but would be happy with a new Host or Co-Host.
There are also opportunities and ideas like Real Estate Club, New Member Ally, and Community Editor. This is your community. Our members have always evolved the direction of this community and I'm thrilled that will continue.
What will 2025 look like and who will be our Club Hosts? If you’re interested, fill out our form!
