The American Evaluation Association (AEA) is excited to announce the launch of a new organizational membership category! This new membership category provides organizations with the opportunity to purchase AEA membership for multiple staff members at a reduced rate.
This new membership category is designed to streamline the management of memberships for institutions, placing all staff members on one invoice, which allows you to provide your team membership through company funding.
The Organizational Membership structure is made up of four tiers, based on the number of employees an organization will bring into the AEA member community. Each organization can choose the tier that best fits its needs, making it easier to manage membership across various teams or departments.
Tier: Team Members
Annual Rate (Based on tier maximum)
Savings (Based on tier maximum)
2-5
$762
$104
6-10
$1,471
$260
11-15
$2,076
$519
16-20
$2,595
$865
Each member of your organization will receive an AEA Regular E-Membership which includes all AEA member benefits and an electronic subscription to AEA’s journals. In addition, your organization receives:
Key Advantages of Organizational Membership
This new membership type is part of AEA’s ongoing commitment to enhancing value and convenience for its members. Organizational Membership will provide significant benefits to both organizations and individual members by fostering a more organized and efficient approach to professional development within the evaluation community.
If your organization is interested in organizational membership, please complete the form below. Mike Zapata with AEA Staff will be your AEA system administrator who will aid in establishing your umbrella organizational membership.
What is organizational membership?
Organizational membership is an opportunity for institutions to give their staff full access to AEA E-member benefits without needing their own system to keep track of differing expiration dates, membership types, conference registrations, etc. Purchasing one organizational membership will apply to however many employees an institution intends to connect with AEA. By centralizing the management of an institution’s AEA members under an official internal staff liaison, organizational membership makes it possible to consolidate what previously required multiple payments for employees into a single payment for the institution as a whole.
How do we take advantage of all our organizational membership benefits?
An AEA organizational membership means access to a staff administrator to ensure that you have streamlined access to your organizational membership specific benefits. While individual members can access their AEA benefits freely as usual, benefits like discounts on conference registration and sponsorship will be facilitated with staff support. Lookout for additional communication on action items to take advantage!
Do we have to purchase the maximum tier access?
No. We do, however, recommend that you do so if you anticipate for certain utilizing all slots available. This is to streamline payment processing and to provide quicker access to membership benefits. If you purchase access to less than your max and wish to add additional employees under your tier, please contact your staff administrator.
What are the next steps once we complete the form above?
Once you complete the form above, AEA staff will connect existing individual members to your organization’s account or will create new accounts for additional individuals that you identify during the submission process. Once these accounts have been established under the primary organizational membership, an invoice will be generated based on the above tiers. Your organization should identify a main liaison who will be responsible for completing payment. Each individual member will receive communications and benefits access directly from their AEA membership account and need not contact their liaison for access.
Will I receive a refund if I did not use all the slots we purchased/someone exits our organization early within a membership year?
No.
We’ve selected a tier but would like to add more employees, which would push us into the next tier. How do we handle that?
While generally we recommend waiting to make these changes at renewal, please reach out to your AEA staff administrator to make the appropriate arrangements.
Can we swap out members throughout the year if someone leaves the organization?
Yes! We will, however, need to confirm with the exiting employee that they wish to relinquish their membership. The new employee will adopt the end date of the exiting employee. Generally speaking, though, we recommend only making changes to membership at the time of renewal.
Who should we contact for renewal?
AEA members typically begin receiving renewal notifications about 90 days before their membership is set to expire. AEA will reach out to staff liaisons around that time to begin planning for renewal. We ask that you please communicate with all organizational members within your network to please ignore renewal notices as your staff liaison will be working directly with AEA to finalize renewals.
Who maintains employee membership accounts?
Profile maintenance is the responsibility of the individual employee and organizational liaisons will not be able to make changes to individual member accounts. While an organizational member, your employees will still be able to maintain autonomy of their profile.
We have more than 20 employees. How can we take advantage of organizational membership?
Currently, we only support up to 20 employees per organization. If your organization wishes to appoint a second staff liaison, they are welcome to do so but must clearly distinguish between the two and understand that they are responsible for managing that set of employee accounts. We cannot swap employees between each organizational membership.