I'm guild president and I have changed our regular same old format a lot. I have asked for and given the program officer a big chunk of our budget to hire two or three talented quilters to hold workshops for the guild. With a limited budge the other months of programs come from the members. One did a trunk show of all her work, including crochet and knitting. One member did a trunk show of all her vintage quilt blocks, embroidery pieces and doll clothes she had collected over the years. One program was the members brought their specialty rulers and gave demos how to use them. We have a clear out one meeting where everyone cleans out their sewing room and we set up tables at the meeting and all unneeded or unwanted items are sold The guild gets 10% of the sales. Most all the members like being involved and being the center of attention for one meeting is fun and everyone gets to know the other members so much better.