Membership

What is a "Power Member?"  When ASTD members join both their local chapter and national ASTD, they choose to be change makers in their own backyard and knowledge leaders in the learning and development profession. Joint membership offers learning professionals a unique opportunity to connect with local, national, and international professionals. Joint members can learn about trends in the field, and gain access to research, principles, practices, and templates they can apply directly to impacting organizational results, their community, and advancing their career.

Chapters with more joint members benefit by having a stronger leadership pool and more engaged members. No one is better qualified to spread the word about the benefits of national ASTD membership than you, a dedicated chapter leader. 

Reasons to refer chapter members to national ASTD:

• Create a stronger community of peers for all members to collaborate with
• Help your friends and colleagues by introducing them to the benefits of national ASTD membership

When chapters promote Power Membership, they ensure ASTD continues to grow and support the careers of the T&D professionals who drive this dynamic field.

As a reminder, it is a CORE requirement that all chapter board members are members of national ASTD. National offers special membership discounts for chapter leaders. Click here for the special application for the $119 discounted national membership rate for chapter leaders. If you'd like to sign up multiple chapter leaders for national ASTD membership in one process, you can use the chapter board team application located here.

CORE Membership Requirement: Increase in 2013! In 2013, the joint membership requirement for chapters will be 40 percent and will continue to increase by 5 percent each year to reach a 50 percent goal (in 2015). Please work closely with your chapter relations manager and NAC advisor to ensure your chapter is preparing to reach the 2013 goal.

RESOURCES FOR PROCESSING NATIONAL ASTD MEMBERSHIPS: National ASTD now has several ways to make processing national memberships easier for chapters. Click here for a job aide on how to collect and process joint membership payments as one bundle and information about how to process national memberships.

Joint Membership Resources for Chapters

• Calculating the joint membership percentage for chapters: contact your chapter relations manager.
  
  
• National Member List Request Form: National ASTD members are good prospects for chapter members. To request the list in your area click here. The national member list should be used for the following purposes:
  • To promote chapter membership
  • To invite members to a chapter meeting or event 
  • To ensure CORE achievement with the chapter-national joint membership requirement.

National information is confidential and for chapter use only. National member information should not be added to the chapter’s weekly correspondence.

• Stairsteps of Membership Engagement
  
  
• Chapter Membership Top 10 Issues and 100 Tips
  
  
• National ASTD Power Membership Presentation: Use 

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  to hold quarterly special membership meetings for chapter members who are not members of national to inform them of the national ASTD member benefits. Feel free to tweak this presentation to add information about your local chapter and its membership offerings.
  
  

• Power Member Application
  
  
• Power Member Logo
  
  
• Collateral Materials: Utilize the customizable templates, brochures, and Power Member ads in your chapters marketing and communications initiatives.
  • Customizable Power Member Brochure
  • Customizable Power Member Flyer
  • Power Member Marketing Flyer
  • Power Member One Third Page Ad
  • Power Member Full Page Ad

• Download the ASTD Membership Toolkit for helpful tools, resources, and information.
  
  
• Engage students to join your chapter by distributing student membership information at chapter events.
  
  
• Access other chapters' successful membership practices through Sharing Our Success (SOS).

How National is Supporting Chapters

• Promoting joint membership through ads in T+D Magazine.
  
  

• Including chapter information in national member welcome kits.
  
  

• Featuring the “Excellence in Joint Membership Growth” Chapter Excellence Award, awarded to chapters that demonstrate the highest overall growth rate of joint national and chapter members. ASTD will award a $1,000 cash prize in each of three chapter size categories (small, medium, and large).
  
  

• Offering chapters the opportunity to earn additional revenue through Chapter Incentive Program (ChIP). Chapters earn $20 for each new national member and $10 for a membership renewal when ChIP code is used during online purchase.
  
  

• Enhancing networking opportunities through social networking communities, a virtual world, discussion boards, live chats with experts, wikis, and more podcasts and webcasts than ever before.
  
  
• Generating new research and providing more data on hot topics in the field such as employee engagement, global workforce, talent management, and workforce preparedness. 
  
  
• Providing access to content and career development resources. Content and news on ASTD.org is changing daily to help members stay current in the profession. 

Chapter Leader Testimonials

Check out what other chapter leaders have to say about joint membership!