The ERAPPA Membership Committee provides strategic guidance to retain and grow an actively engaged membership in concert with the local chapters with the requisite knowledge, skills, abilities and values to elevate the education facilities professional.

The Committee recommends to the Board strategies for growing ERAPPA membership and retaining current members. The Committee accomplishes this in part by working closely with APPA, and the local Chapters and by producing and approving annual member recruitment goals and strategy, and periodically reviewing and adjusting these goals as needed.

Finally, the Membership Committee provides perspective on the needs and expectations of ERAPPA's membership and works in tandem with other ERAPPA committees to assist in achieving this.

Planning occurred for the 6th Annual First Time Attendee Reception being held in Pittsburgh. This important reception

• provides a forum for new members to meet the Membership Committee members, the ERAPPA Board, Chapter presidents and APPA executives.
• provides an opportunity to offer information on our conference and introduces them to next year's conference (including a draw for a free registration to Philadeliphia 2012).
• allows new attendees an opportunity to ask any questions they may have concerning the conference or our association.

The Scholarship Committee reviewed and scored all applications before the ERAPPA Annual Meeting held in Portland. The successful applicants were announced during the Business Meeting.  

The 2010 ERAPPA scholarship winners were:

It is an ERAPPA initiative to reach out to every member from the Eastern Region who graduates from educational offerings including the Supervisor’s Toolkit, Institute for Facilities Management, Leadership Academy, and the Educational Facilities Professional Preparatory Course. The Membership Committee is working on a congratulatory program with the Professional Development Committee.

Institutional membership targets were met this year partly due to the recruitment efforts of Membership Committee members. This includes the Institutional Members recruitment target being met for a total of 311.

Recruitment efforts include the committee members calling potential institutional members using the APPA new prospect and non-renewal list..

Goals for 2011 include:

ü  Reach Membership Recruitment Targets, using APPA’s overall targets for guidance. This year’s target will be the same as 2010/11. This includes reaching out to non-renewed members.

ü  Work with ERAPPA on the Community College (CC) Engagement Group to increase Community College membership.

ü  Work with APPA Young Members Group to assist the committee to review how to get younger members more involved

ü  Improve ERAPPA Membership Section of ERAPPA’s website to provide more information to help in recruitment efforts. This includes: Message from VP; Benefits of being a member/What can it do for you?; About Us//Layers of APPA/History of ERAPPA (look at MAPPA); Who’s my Local Chapter Contact – use a ZIP/Postal Code search pop up box.; Join ERAPPA/APPA; Emeritus Membership

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ü  Develop Welcoming Program for New ERAPPA Members to engage them into our association (work with APPA) Information package developed to welcome new ERAPPA members and for First Time Attendees at our Annual Meetings.

ü  Continue to improve First Time Attendees Reception.