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MPI Chapter Leader Newsletter

December 2025

December 11

Happy Holidays from Chapter Operations

The Chapter Operations team wishes you a happy holiday season and a wonderful New Year!  

Leadership and Engagement

2026 Regional Council Chair & Vice Chairs

The Board Development Committee has confirmed the incoming Regional Council Chairs and Vice Chairs for 2026. The full roster for each 2026 Regional Council is available here: CLRP > Office of the President Documents > Office of President Roles > 2026 Regional Council Roster.

Shannon Jones, MPI Tennessee Chapter, will continue to serve as the President of the Council of Regional Chairs which is comprised of all eight Regional Council Chairs who come together quarterly to share the work being done within each region.

Best Practice Sharing: Annual Meeting Presentation

Every MPI Chapter is required to hold an annual meeting per our governance documents. Recently the MPI Chicago Area Chapter hosted their Annual Meeting virtually and they have granted permission to share their Annual Meeting PowerPoint with all Chapters as part of our best practice sharing. Note the inclusion of all departments with an overview of success from the current year. The virtual meeting closed with the installation of their incoming Board of Directors. To view their presentation, click here. 

Chapter Dashboard Review

As we approach the close of the 2025 term, please review your Chapter Dashboard in its entirety for errors or missing information. If information requires updating, please use the Missing Dashboard Information template and submit it to your Regional Operations Manager.  

Membership

Membership Update

Thank you for making Cyber Monday 2025 a Success!

Thank you to all the Chapters, Clubs, and members who helped promote the Cyber Monday membership offer. Your emails, social media efforts, and other outreach helped make the campaign a success. The promotion brought in nearly 700 new memberships and renewals. 

Encourage Your New Members to Attend an MPI New Member Orientation Session

Does your Chapter/Club offer a member orientation? If you do not offer new members a monthly orientation, please encourage your new members to join the MPI New Member Orientation. By attending orientation, your new members will engage with other MPI members worldwide and learn about opportunities for them to advance their knowledge and connections across MPI. 
 
 

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New members, register for the MPI New Member Orientation (a 45-minute webinar). You’ll learn all about the benefits available to you - beyond what is offered through our Chapter/Club - and how to utilize them to accomplish your unique goals.    
 
 

All sessions take place on Zoom at 10:00am-10:45am, CDT.    

  • Tuesday, January 13, 2026

  • Thursday, February 12, 2026 

Email crichards@mpi.org to register. 

Reminder: Membership Holiday Sale December 15-19, 2025

MPI will offer a membership Holiday Sale on December 15-19, 2025. 

Please plan to share this exciting offer on all Chapter channels. To help you with this, a toolkit for the promotion (including all the digital files and FAQ) is available on the Chapter Leader Resource Page. You will find it under Chapter Toolkits > Monthly Toolkits. 

Administration and Finance

Rebate Payments Go Quarterly

As shared during the November Chapter Leader All Hands Call, MPI will begin issuing rebate payments on a quarterly basis to reduce fees and be more efficient.  Additional information, along with the payment schedule, can be found in the CLRP > Finances > Budgeting.

MPI Year End Office Closure

The MPI office will be closed December 22, 2025 – January 2, 2026. Happy Holidays! and we will see you in the New Year. 

Bots Hitting Your Chapter/Club Website?

Chapter Administrators – as a reminder, please be sure that when you are adding new forms to your website you are dragging and dropping a “CAPTCHA” field right before the submit button. This will prevent spam bots from hitting your forms and sending hundreds (or thousands) of notifications through. We had a bot hit the website over the weekend that caused some havoc. IT has gone through and made sure the forms in question all have a CAPTCHA field added, but please make sure you are adding these moving forward. Feel free to reach out to support@mpiweb.org if you have any questions! 

Communities

Anti-Human Trafficking Committee Ends Year with Accomplishments

MPI’s Anti-Human Trafficking Committee is ending our year together on a high note, recognizing the accomplishments and looking to the future.  This committee continued the Ambassador program, which provides every Chapter/Club with an AHT liaison; presented at both Chapter Leadership Summit and GMID / Global Meetings Industry Day; hosted an AHT speaker session at WEC; welcomed three AHT experts to committee calls for invaluable learning opportunities; enhanced the committee’s social media presence; led a virtual training for all chapter leaders on providing AHT content to their Chapters/Clubs; worked with MPI Global to create an information webinar that will be available for all Chapter/Club members to view in the MPI Academy. 

The committee is excited to welcome Jill Rasco as the Chair for 2026 – 2027.  From the outgoing Chair Jennifer Berkemeier – I'm so thankful for our stellar team this year; thank you for your dedication and passion for this cause!  

Events

Register for Upcoming Events!

January All Hands Call  

MPI Chapter Leader All Hands Calls inform Volunteer Chapter Leaders with crucial information and updates about our organization. All 2026 Board Members are encouraged to attend and ask questions directly to MPI Senior Leadership. Register online for the Zoom calendar invite.  

January 22 at 10:00am CST - Register Today! 

 

European Chapter Leaders Forum 

All 2026 Volunteer Chapter Leaders are invited to attend our European Chapter Leaders Forum (ECLF) taking place in person at the SLS Hotel Barcelona on Sunday 22 February 2026 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. prior to the start of EMEC. 
 
Use this link to register: Register here 

 
EMEC MPI Volunteer Discounted Registration  

All 2026 Volunteer Chapter Leaders, Chapter Administrators, International Volunteer Committees (task forces, advisory boards, advisory councils), and Regional Council members are eligible for a discounted registration rate. You must be an MPI member in good standing at the time of registration.  

  • Planners: 465€ 
  • Suppliers: 565€ 
Use this link to access the leader discount: Register here 
 

 

WEC 2026 San Antonio Chapter Leader Registration  

All Volunteer Chapter Leaders, Chapter Administrators, and Regional Council members are eligible. You must be a member in good standing at the time of registration.       
 
WEC 2026 San Antonio Rates:       
    •    Planner Member = $720    
    •    Supplier Member = $1,190    
 
Use this link to access the leader discount: Register Online Today!      

MPI Foundation

MPI Foundation Updates

Let’s Celebrate ENDINGS! 

A former mentor once shared with me an important thought: “Always finish well”.   

No matter how an event, conference or campaign ends, the only thing that remains is a final and lasting impression. When you look back on 2025, will you finish well?  

Will you have done everything on your list, perhaps not, but did you try your best; will your lasting impression be a good one? I hope so. 

Has the MPI Foundation left you with a good impression in 2025? One that reflects our efforts to support you as a Volunteer Chapter Leader. Have we shared good and useful information and maybe even inspired you to create opportunities to donate to the MPI Foundation? I hope we have finished 2025 well too. 

As we celebrate the end of 2025, we can also get ready for the challenges that we will face in 2026. I am very happy to say that I will be returning as the GBOT Vice Chair, Chapters. Together we will continue growing our Pledge Program and Foundation Friendly campaigns and bringing awareness to available scholarships and grants. 

We plan to share some news about the Chapter Champion program and other ways for you to commit, connect, share ideas and celebrate your success.  

Good News Keeps Coming 

Congratulations to MPI Italia Chapter for completing their 12th Annual MPI Foundation Movie Charity Auction. This successful event raised $11,000 USD. Thank you to the organizers and participants for their generous donation. 

 

SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE WITH YOUR CHAPTER MEMBERS!

https://www.mpi.org/foundation/get-help/scholarships

FINALIZE YOUR 2025 CHAPTER PLEDGE – Before December 31, 2025 

Please reference the email sent December 4 about how to submit your year-end donation. 

TELL US WHAT YOU THINK

Question for DECEMBER 2025 - Share how your chapter “finished well” in 2025. 


Does your Chapter/Club need support from the Foundation? Whether it is day to day or planning a special project, send us a quick update, let us know how we can help. stonehouse@bellnet.ca