New Chapter Outreach
- PA Document 134A - Docketing Statement for State Revenue Depaartment
- PA Document 5306-7102B - Articles of Incorporation
- PhillyNORML Bylaws - to be taken as a sample set of bylaws
- NORML National Chapter Application
- College/University Chapters
- Drexel University - Contact: info@phillynorml.org
- Philadelphia University - Contact: info@phillynorml.org
- County Chapters
Start your own chapter of NORML
Working on the principal that thinking globally and acting locally will be the most successful strategy for any cause, one of the best ways that you can help NORML would be to start your own chapter. Click here for the procedure that NORML requires for any start up chapter.
The following are the forms that PhillyNORML used to get registered as an official chapter of NORML. Our hope is that providing the following will make starting your chapter that much easier.
New Chapters list
The following list contains a list of individuals who would like to form NORML Chapters in their schools or county around Pennsylvania
If you would like to be added to the list then please email your contact information to info@phillynorml.org
Getting Started with your New Chapter
Regular meetings are essential to any organization so they are a good initial goal. You will find that as you hold these meetings people will eventually file in. The more people that you have filing in, the more your collective energy and enthausium will build and something will get accomplished. PhillyNORML holds two meetings a month on the first and third Mondays. We feel that is the best for us because we get to meet regularly and occasionally we get a week off.
It is also recommended to hold ordered meetings. If you are a student organization then you can see this first hand at your student government meetings. Otherwise you should have a look at Robert's Rules of Order which is a comprehensive method of running meetings for speed and efficiency.
From there you can take it however you'd like. If you are a student organization perhaps you'd like to have your student government pass a resolution againt campus drug laws. If you are more of a municipal/county organization then planning a regular action is a good place to start. PhillyNORML started with a candelight vigil because it was easy to organize and sent a very positive message.
