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Membership

Recruits new members, processes membership applications, encourages new member involvement through committee participation, orients new members.

Member Relations

Encourages member interaction and participation and helps determine how ASWA can better serve its members. Helps orient new members.

Student Activities

Serves as liaison to area college accounting programs and fosters student membership. Coordinates an annual student night dinner.

Scholarship

Publicizes scholarships and solicits applications, selects and honors winners, and coordinates fund raising activities such as annual dessert auction.

Marketing

Promotes positive public exposure of organization and women in accounting. Prepares press releases of Chapter meetings and events for publicity in local papers.

Education

Plans and produces educational seminars of interest and benefit to our members. Offered at minimal cost to fulfill CPE requirements. Maintains records of CPE.

Fall Seminar

Coordinates with North Cascades (Bellingham) Chapter to sponsor annual Fall Seminar held at a resort location, providing 12 hours of CPE.

Program

Secures speakers for monthly dinner meetings on topics that contribute to our professional competence and knowledge. Introduces speakers at meetings.

Community Service

Coordinates and advances opportunities for members to give back to the community. Publicizes volunteer opportunities with local organizations (coordinated with the Employment Opportunities newsletter). Organizes annual clothing and holiday gift-giving drives.

Arrangements

Responsible for monthly dinner meetings. Collects dinner meeting reservations and coordinates with catering. Greets and checks in members and guests at dinner meetings. Ensures the monthly dinner meetings run smoothly. Great committee for new members!

Newsletter

Responsible for communication of information to members. Publishes monthly newsletter (The Journal) which is primary means of communication of chapter events, goals, and member news. Transmits newsletter for publications to the chapter web site and mails paper copies to members without internet access.

Employment Opportunities

Maintains listing of job opportunities and applicants to help employers seeking applicants and members looking for jobs. Publicizes opportunities for the web site and prepares monthly newsletter to place on dinner meeting tables to announce employment and volunteer opportunities.

Yearbook

Compiles and publishes annual handbook including directory of chapter members, officers, committee descriptions, by-laws and standing rules.

Treasurers Workshop

Sub-committee of Community Service Committee. Sponsors a one-day seminar for not-for-profit treasurers and other board members who are not accountants.

Technology

Addresses technology issues for the chapter. Maintains and updates the chapter website, solicits entries to the website calendar, and publishes the monthly newsletter in electronic form for both website viewing and downloading. Implements new technology opportunities, educates members on technology issues, and helps to design new website additions.