Membership

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Membership in the California Association for Environmental and Outdoor Education is available to any person working in or supportive of environmental and/or outddoor education. Your membership dues help to fund our wonderful annual conferences, outings and events, quarterly newsletters, and this website, among other more mundane (yet expensive) costs such as insurance, accounting, and legal fees. Thank you for your support!

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Map of California EE Providers

Map of California EE Providers

Membership Categories and Costs

Individual AEOE Membership Levels (rates effective 7/1/07):

Intern/Full Time Student - $15/year
The intern/student membership will remain the same to recognize those of you beautiful people in environmental education positions who are not necessarily highly compensated monetarily (volunteers, interns, students, retirees, etc.) for the amazing work that you do. Click here to join as an individual intern/student member of AEOE

Basic - $20/year
The basic membership is for individuals who have studied their hearts out in school or as interns, and are now in the field as instructor or naturalists. The job title aside you know who you are, continuing to do amazing work in education. Click here to join as an individual basic member of AEOE

Contributing Individual Membership - $35+/year (optional subscription to Clearing Magazine)
For those who are professionals in our field, we encourage you to support your organiztion by joining at the contributing level. With the $35 membership you may choose to receive Clearing Magazine (an $18 value). Click here to join as an individual contributing member of AEOE

Life Individual Membership - $200/year
If you are planning on staying involved with AEOE for a few years, you may want to consider a life membership at $200 and never have to worry about paying your dues again! Click here to join as an individual life member of AEOE (Note that life memberships are available only to individuals, not organizations)

Financial Assistance
We value all environmental educators and encourage individuals who need financial assistance in order to participate in AEOE activities to apply for a scholarship. Scholarships are offered through the Joie's Daisies Scholarship Fund (in memory of Joie Armstrong) for conferences. Also consider volunteering or presenting a workshop at the conference to reduce your conference fees. (Donations to the Joie’s Daisies Scholarship Fund are always welcome!)

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You may print and mail in a simple individual membership form. Mail to the address on the form. If you are uncertain of your section membership, click here for map. Click here for the institutional membership form.

 

Institutional Membership (rates effective 7/1/07): click here to join as an institutional member

Institutional - $75/year
Institutional memberships help support the work of AEOE and include free unlimited job postings, free publicity for your program on our California EE Providers page, participation in Conference Job Fairs, and a quarterly regional newsletter (paper or electronic) while membership is current. We also encourage you to promote your events through the AEOE Calendar. This membership is for organizations/ programs only. It does not include individual memberships for any of the staff of the program. Click here to join or renew as an institutional member

To join or renew as an institutional member, please print and mail in the institutional membership form along with your $75 check payable to AEOE to the address on the form. (Click here to see if your institutional membership is current) We are happy to provide an invoice if needed - just email and ask. Thank you!

Map of California EE Providers

 

Change of Address

Please use the online change of address form, or contact the Membership Chair (click on the link for contact information). If you just want to get your newsletters electronically instead of mailed to your address, click here to go paperless!

Benefits of Membership

Benefits of membership in AEOE include fall sectional conferences and a spring state conference which are a great chance to see friends, take professional workshops, and find jobs; voting in section elections and attending all board meetings; newsletters four times a year; this website; booths at regional environmental education fairs; jobs information; and a variety of special activities such as workshops and trips in natural areas. As a member, you are also supporting AEOE and helping us to continue putting on great conferences and activities and publishing our newsletters.

You must be a member to attend any AEOE event. Members also receive the AEOE newsletter four times a year.

Life Memberships are for individuals only at this time. Life Members help support AEOE and never have to renew. We are pleased to list our Life Members here.

Institutional membership is for organizations/programs only. It does not include individual memberships for the staff of the program. Institutional members may post jobs to the AEOE Joblist for free. Your program's website will be listed on the California EE/OE Providers Directory, along with a short description of your program, giving your organization free publicity. Institutional members may participate in conference job fairs as well. We are pleased to list our current Institutional Members: list view | map view

 

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