Every city with ten Itsekiris is a Region waiting to happen. Gather your people, walk the four stages, and we hand you the covenant, the playbooks, and a mentor — everything a recognized Region gets at charter.
There is no waiting list for culture. If there are Itsekiris in Phoenix or Raleigh or Kansas City, the Congress meets them where they are — not where the map currently says we are.
Funerals, weddings, scholarship interviews, new-arrival airport pickups — every service we run runs through a Region. More Regions, more hands, less strain on any one elder.
You and your neighbors are holding each other up already. A Region just makes that official — and pairs it with the 501(c)(3), the mentor network, the brand, and the playbooks.
You are a paid Region member living in a city with no Region nearby. National assigns you to the closest existing Region so you don't lose access — but you show up on the map as a seed.
You find a few Itsekiris nearby and convene a first gathering — a Zoom call, a living room, a Saturday brunch. National gives you a chat channel, a directory seat, and a Regional Director to call.
You reach the Article 3.2 floor of 10 paid members, elect an interim slate, and open the Organizer Workspace — your checklist toward recognition. National pairs you with a mentor Region.
You've hit the charter floor, hosted a first event, opened a Region bank account, adopted bylaws, and the BOD has voted yes. The President signs your recognition at Convention 2026.
We keep the bar low and the path clear. Every one of these is already a practice you would need to run a healthy Region anyway — we just ask you to show it to us before we hand you the brand.
The Region Development Committee helps you meet every bullet. None of it is a gate you face alone.
Framed physical copy, signed by the National President and BOD Chair, plus the digital PDF for your bylaws binder.
Template bylaws, IRS group-exemption coverage under our 501(c)(3), banking instructions, annual filing calendar.
Logo variants with your Region name, two-color palette, event flyer templates, social kit, business-card generator.
Region page on itsekirinationalcongress.org, auto-populated from the national directory, editable by your Secretary.
The shared ops dashboard for every Region — members, dues, events, giving, communications. Console activates with the member app at Convention 2026.
A sister Region within your roll-up walks you through your first year — monthly check-ins, shared playbook, co-host option for your first event.
Unrestricted seed support for your first six months — venue deposits, insurance, printed materials, launch event. Amount set by the BOD at charter.
A 30-minute video call with the President, Secretary-General, and your Regional Director — part prayer, part strategy.
Your Region President votes at the biennial convention, joins the monthly NCRP call, and carries your city's voice into national policy.
The covenant is short and the standard is high. We’re still a young Congress — early Regions are seating their leadership and finding their cadence. Mentorship from the national body is part of the process.
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Five steps, about twenty minutes, saves as you go. You do not need all ten members today — you need the first few and a stubborn enough Convener to find the rest.