Structure and Finances of GPEIG
The Global Planning Educators Interest Group is now 10 years old. Our first decade has seen a lot of growth and the desire to take on new projects and ways to honor our founding members (Lim awards). We currently are organized as a loose affiliation of faculty from ACSP and affiliated departments. We choose our leadership (co-chairs) based on those who show up at our annual conference business sessions. We have some intermittent communications during the rest of the year through a list serve, newsletter, and website. Other associations have interest groups that have more clearly defined membership categories (AAG and APA) that require some form of dues or fees. Should GPEIG consider a more formal membership structure? Should we assess membership fees in some way to generate income to pay for the Lim awards and other future projects?
Petra Doan, GPEIG co-chair
Posted by petradoan on 06/24 at 12:22 PM in Business Management • (2) Comments
During the last two years co-chairs have spent a good deal of energy trying to cope with how to raise the funds to support the Lim awards. We relied on one spontaneous fund raising drive and the remainder of a HUD grant from one member to cover costs, but this is NOT sustainable.
Feedback from GPEIG members on how to move forward would be much apreciated.
I, for one, will gladly pay dues. As the problems we face become increasingly globalized, complicated, and wicked , the value of a group like GPEIG goes up. We have important work to do. Jason Wiskerschen has some good ideas on how we might be able to raise some funds (in addition to dues). I wonder if Jason would be so kind as to share those ideas with the group.