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The Distinguished Club Program (DCP)

How It Works

The Distinguished Club Program is an annual program, running from July 1 through June 30. The program consists of 10 goals that clubs strive to achieve during this time period. Toastmasters International (TI) World Headquarters (WHQ) tracks the progress of each club toward these goals throughout the year, sending quarterly progress reminders to club presidents and posting weekly updated reports on the TI website. At the end of the Toastmaster year, WHQ calculates the number of goals the club achieved and recognizes it as a Distinguished Club, Select Distinguished Club or President’s Distinguished Club based on the number of goals achieved and the number of members it has.

Goals to Achieve and Number of Members

The 10 goals fall into four categories: Education completions (6), Membership (2), Officer Training (1), and Administrative (1) The goals are:

1. Two Competent Communicator (CC) Manual completions
2. Two more CC completions
3. One Advanced Communicator completion. Advanced Communicator designations are:
• Advanced Communicator Bronze (ACB)
• Advanced Communicator Silver (ACS)
• Advanced Communicator Gold (ACG)
4. One more Advanced Communicator completion
5. One Leadership completion. Leadership designations are:
• Competent Leader (CL)
• Advanced Leader Bronze (ALB)
• Advanced Leader Silver (ALS)
• Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM)
6. One more Leadership completion
7. Four new members
8. Four more new members
9. A minimum of four officers trained during each of two training periods
10. One membership dues renewal report submitted on time and one club officer list submitted on time

In addition, clubs must meet a Membership Requirement. As of June 30, the club must have either

• 20 members, OR
• a net growth of five members over the July 1 base member number

Recognition

Clubs that meet the Membership Requirement and achieve at least five of the DCP goals earn recognition:

• five or six goals - Distinguished Club
• seven or eight goals - Select Distinguished Club
• nine or ten goals - President's Distinguished Club

Posted 4/5/2010