IAWM Membership Committee
Members
Susan Cohn Lackman, chair
Position Open, Coordinator, Affiliates and Exchanges
Reena Esmail, Coordinator, Outreach
Description
- Maintain database information for all members. Process new membership applications and request publications for new members
- Create and circulate a membership directory (March), with an update later in the year (November).
- Execute yearly membership drive.
- Provide mailing lists and labels for Journal mailings and at others' requests.
- Provide membership verification for contest applicants, board members, board candidates and those who make submissions for the publications.
- Determine eligibility of applicants for subsidized memberships (subject to availability of funds).
Dues: Categories
- Individual: $45.00
- Senior (over 65) $30.00
- Student $25.00 (include copy of Student ID)
- Lifetime: $1000 may be paid either in one lump sum, or in $200 payments over five years. (from 2000 Board Meeting Minutes) All income from lifetime memberships is to be placed in a separate, interest-bearing IAWM endowment account These funds are not to be used for general operating expenses.
- Exchanges or Affiliates (for an organization): Exchange Memberships are available with other women-in-music organizations, and Affiliate Memberships are available with music organizations. For information on participating organizations, or to begin an Affiliate or Exchange program with your organization, please contact Deborah Hayes, Deborah.Hayes@colorado.edu.
- Member subsidy: All members with Subsidy memberships are requested to return the renewal form each year in order to verify contact information. For more information about subsidized memberships, please contact the IAWM Membership Director and petition for the subsidy, citing reasons for the request. Subsidized members are expected to provide some service to IAWM, from clerical to editorial, in exchange for the subsidy.
Surcharge for Printed Materials: The IAWM Board voted that, beginning in 2001, the preferred format for the IAWM Directory, Opportunities, Election Materials, and Membership Renewals Forms be electronic. For those who prefer to receive these materials by first-class mail there will be a $10 surcharge.