Valuable Member Benefits for State Associations

We are excited to offer our AAOM Member Associations two new member benefits!

Get news and information into the hands that are shaping the future of Oriental Medicine.

Set for release this month, the News Edition of the American Acupuncturist will be published alongside the existent journal and will reflect its content. We are expanding our readership to include the student body and faculty of OM colleges in the U.S., who will receive free copies of our broadsheet on a quarterly basis. AAOM members will continue to receive the American Acupuncturist journal in its original format.

• Benefit to State Associations: Beginning with this issue, the front of the News Edition will state: Brought to you through the collaborative efforts of the AAOM and your State Association. We are doing this, as subsequent issues will announce news items from our State Associations, collaborative membership drives, or issues and concerns that impact the profession as a whole. This is a wonderful tool for us to reach and unify OM students with the practitioner community nationwide!
• Grow the State – Grow the Nation Campaign: The AAOM is continuing the Grow the State – Grow the Nation Campaign that was designed to generate national unity and “grow membership” at the state and national levels. The program reduces our joint membership fee by $50 (rather than $25). As a result, AAOM professional memberships are $200 rather than $250 with verification of state association membership. We have given ourselves a goal to increase joint memberships 5-fold by year-end. This means that across the US, we intend to increase the membership roles of our member state associations by as many as 800 members! How do we intend to do this?
• Beginning with the September News Edition of the American Acupuncturist we will challenge each of our member State Associations to promote a 2/1 membership drive for the Month of October! As an example, if your annual State Association Dues are $250 for professional members, and the AAOM’s are $250, members can join both associations for the cost of 1 membership, and each Association (the AAOM and your State Association) will receive 50% (or $125) of their annual dues rate. If your association’s dues rate structure is lower or higher than the AAOM’s, the rate charged will be 50% of the published membership rate of each association.
• We already link to all member associations on our website. AAOM will formulate a Grow the State – Grow the Nation Promotion that will feature all participating states with links to your websites and member benefits as well as dues structures. We will offer online membership applications as well as PDF applications that can be downloaded, completed and faxed to our offices.
• We will have a Grow the State – Grow the Nation Booth at our Expo 2006 at the Wigwam Phoenix Arizona , manned by State representatives attending, offering the 2/1 membership campaign to all conference attendees. This is an opportunity to generate increased momentum for the campaign: the excitement of national collaboration and deepened understanding of combined benefits will propel members to become part of their state organizations.
• The Grow the State – Grow the Nation Campaign 2006 will run for the Month of October. We have seen that the energy and inspiration generated from this conference motivates practitioners to return to their states with increased determination to foster growth for our profession.
• The AAOM will provide fees and data from the newly enrolled members to state organizations the following month.
• Online Access: For participating associations, enrollment will also be available online throughout the month of October. AAOM receives 60-70% of its new memberships via online enrollment.
• Increase Student Membership: The American Acupuncturist News Edition will promote this program into all OM schools across the country - assisting our state associations to significantly increase student membership!

We hope you’ll join us for our Grow the State – Grow the Nation Campaign 2006. The combined synergy of all state associations coming together to work with us might just be all you need to see your membership grow beyond our imagination... together, let’s make it happen!

Please respond by completing the Interactive Form provided. We will ask the following:

State Association Name
Contact Person
Mailing Address
Phone/Fax/Email
Web Address
Mission Statement
Association Overview
Membership Categories and Rate Structures:
(As an example, AAOM membership categories are:
Student - 1st year - 2nd Year - Professional. Each carries a different rate structure.)