Certificates will be awarded for:
1. 100% Teacher/Principal Membership
To be awarded to units where every full time teacher in the school and the Principal(s) are members.
2. Maintaining Membership
To be awarded to units that have at least as many members this year as last year.
3. 25% Increase
Unit membership increased 25% over previous year.
4. School displaying Outstanding Membership Campaign participation.
Documentation is necessary. Up to five pages of documentation, typed, single-sided, and single or double spaced will be accepted. Documentation may include photos, newsletter, articles, letters to parents, etc. **PLEASE NOTE: The Outstanding Membership Campaign must be mailed to Indiana PTA, 2525 N. Shadeland Ave. D-4, Indianapolis, IN 46219 and postmarked
no later than February 1, 2011 to be eligible for award and mailed to
Plaques will be awarded for:
1. 50% Increase
Unit membership increased 50% over previous year.
2. Outstanding Membership Achievement Award (one (1) unit per region)
This is for the highest percentage of increase in members from 2009-2010 numbers. Unit must have had at least 50 members the previous year.
3. Outstanding Membership Campaign Recipient
Outstanding Membership Campaign will be awarded to one local unit in Indiana displaying the best membership Campaign. (See criteria above)
4. 500 or more members for two consecutive years.
5. 100% Matching Membership
*Example – If, at the time of this report, you have 400 students enrolled and you have 400 PTA
members, you have earned the 100% Matching Membership Award.
Special Recognition will be given to units that increase in the following levels:
Amethyst Level – Increase by five (5) members over 2009-2010
Sapphire Level – Increase by ten (10) members over 2009-2010
Ruby Level – Increase by twenty-five (25) members over 2009-2010
Emerald Level – Increase by thirty-five (35) members over 2009-2010
Diamond Level – Increase by fifty (50) members over 2009-2010
**IMPORTANT NOTE IN ORDER TO QUALIFY FOR ANY MEMBERSHIP AWARD, A UNIT MUST MEET THE NOVEMBER 15 AND MARCH 15 DUES AND REMITTANCE FORM DEADLINE.
Dear PTA Membership Chair,
Welcome to the Indiana PTA Membership Program. It is dedicated to you and the growth of your unit. Only by maintaining a substantial membership base can we best serve our goals of child advocacy and parent involvement. You have a wonderful opportunity to increase parent involvement in your unit and school, but first you will need to set a growth goal for this year, choose a theme for your campaign and start promoting membership.
Check out the Indiana PTA website (www.indianapta.org) and the National PTA website (www.pta.org) for many exciting ideas! You will find many useful tools for building membership. You may duplicate and share any of the information and use it as you find it most useful for your campaign.
Each PTA member adds volume to our numbers and credibility to our cause so that policy makers in all areas and at all levels hear a strong, unified voice on behalf of children. Joining PTA is the most basic form of parent involvement. It means that the member endorses the Purposes and Mission of the PTA.
Please familiarize yourself with this material, represent your PTA with pride and enthusiasm and enjoy a productive and successful membership year.
Below are some links to help you as membership chairman:
Developing a Membership Plan
- National PTA Benefits
- Indiana PTA Benefits
Click HERE to download a customizable brochure highlighting the benefits provided by Indiana PTA and National PTA, as well as a break-down of how each portion of a member's dues are used! This will be a valuable tool to recruit members and answer the question - "Why pay dues?"
--T-Mobile and PTA have partnered together to bring PTA members exclusive discounts on wireless mobile service and equipment.**
--Southwest Airlines Vacations has teamed up with National PTA to offer PTA members an exclusive 5% discount on vacation packages.**
--Sharp Electronics Corporation is offering PTA members special purchase opportunities on TVs and other audio, video, and other home entertainment products.**
--MetLife Auto & Home® offers PTA members a group insurance program that comes with special savings and benefits. **
--MedicAlert provides peace of mind to PTA parents through discounted memberships to the MedicAlert Kid Smart® program.**
--PTA Members will save 5% on all purchases ordered from Barnes and Noble’s special PTA site. **
--Our Children magazine, PTA’s flagship publication with parenting articles by experts on children’sissues.
--The E-learning hub allows PTA members to take valuable training in topics important to parents and PTA.
--PTA Legislative Day, gives all Indiana PTA members a chance to lobby their state representatives about issues important to our schools and children.
--Offers state-wide training at the Annual Indiana PTA Convention to local leaders to implement fun and exciting programs at your school.
--The Indiana State PTA Legislative Committee keeps your Local Unit aware of legislative and government issues important to our schools.
Assess the needs of your membership, what they expect from the PTA and their special interests and abilities.
Boast of the accomplishments of your local unit and set new goals. Communicate parent, teacher, and community concerns by providing well-planned programs and goals.
Communicate parent, teacher, and community concerns by providing well-planned programs and activities.
Demonstrate a knowledge of how State and National PTA dues are used and by whom.
Encourage parents, teachers, and community members to work together on important issues.
Fathers are an important part of PTA.
Generate enthusiasm, and soon others around you will be inspired.
Help is at hand through State and National resources.
Involve new and current members in activities.
Joining a PTA entitles members to automatic membership in the local, state and National PTA’s.
Kck off your year-round membership campaign by publicizing it through all local media.
Listing members as they join and keeping an up-to-date roster is most important.
Membership is open to everyone throughout the year.
New ideas that come from brainstorming keep members out of a rut.
Open house is an opportune time for recruiting members.
Projects that are meaningful keep people interested and involved.
Question your members about their concerns and where they feel PTA should be putting its efforts.
Report on membership at each executive and general meeting.
Share information with your members about legislation, health, and education issues, and the progress of the many State and National PTA projects that have an effect on all children and youth.
Target dates for your enrollment campaign should be set; telephone contact is most effective at this time.
Uphold and be prepared to explain National PTA Purposes and Mission.
Volunteers are ready to help: sometimes they are just waiting to be asked.
Without dues the PTA cannot develop resources, publications, or services. Please be prompt when submitting your dues to your state PTA.
Xnumber of membership cards are mailed to each unit. Issue one to each member and return the unused cards to the state PTA office.
Your active volunteers are an integral part of a PTA. They provide that “personal touch” that is essential for a PTA to thrive.
Zipping through these “ABCs of Membership” has been fun, we hope. Do continue to apply them as you work in your PTA.