About Toastmasters International - District 4 Toastmasters
About Toastmasters International
Toastmasters International is an international nonprofit
educational organization dedicated to making effective
oral communication a worldwide reality. With its headquarters
in southern California, the Toastmasters International
organization is governed by a Board of Directors representing
various clubs and regions around the globe. District
4 Toastmasters is a part of this organization, as summarized
by the hierarchy listed below:
- Regions (such as Region II, which includes
the southwestern United States and Hawaii)
- Districts (such as District 4 in California,
which includes the San Francisco peninsula, Silicon
Valley, and the Santa Cruz and Monterey peninsulas)
- Divisions (subdivisions of a district, of
which District 4 has seven)
- Areas (subdivisions of a division)
- Clubs (the core unit of the Toastmasters
organization)
- Individual Members (the participants - and
benefactors - of the entire organization)
Every group within this structure exists solely to
improve the activities offered by the Toastmasters program,
and each of the larger groups is dedicated to helping
the more local groups and individual clubs realize the
Toastmaster vision of effective oral communication.
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