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Membership Notes
Jorge Fernández Daher
In this issue, we are going to explain the funding program we have been running for Chapters. We also include the updated list of Chapter Chairs and finally we welcome our new Senior Members.
The Chapter Development Funding Program is designed to encourage your chapter to promote and improve its value to your members. The Membership Development Committee of the I&M Administrative Committee offers support for your efforts in this endeavor with this program.
We have developed the following process to provide some consistency and structure for both the submission procedure and the review procedure. We want to encourage you to be creative. The ideas and examples we have included are to stimulate your thinking, not to limit what you can do.
Rules:
• Money must be used for the purpose of “membership development,” that is, for the purpose of attracting new members, or improving the value and quality of membership of our current members.
• Events must be reasonably well-publicized, such that at least any I&M member and ideally any IEEE member, in your local area should be able to know about the event. Funds are not to be spent for private parties.
• Within one (1) month of the completion of your event, submit a report of how your event went, with any proposed results or metrics.
Ideas:
• Make a handout pamphlet to show who you are and what you do.
• Provide travel expenses for a guest speaker. (Note: there is also an “IEEE Distinguished Lecturer Program,” which is separate from this process.)
• Organize a local game or contest.
• Run a workshop.
• Arrange a forum or event to help people establish professional networks.
• Use your imagination. Make a request.
Maximum Amount of Funds for an Event
“Small Events” should be limited to $500.
“Significant Value-Added Events” should be limited to $1000.
“Basic Expenses,” such as additional local advertising, should be limited to $200.
“Travel Expenses” should be limited to $500.
“Events with Seed Money” (as discussed below), should be limited to $1000 for “Medium-sized Events” and $2000 for Significant Value-Added Events.
Seed Money for Revenue-Generating Events
We would like to encourage the development of events that can partially or fully fund themselves or generate revenue. We can provide additional “seed” money beyond the limits given above guidelines for events that have the potential to generate revenue. Seed money is defined as money that is planned for expenditures to support an activity that will generate revenue, such that some of this revenue can be applied towards a future purpose. Such future purposes must also meet the guidelines of this membership-development program.
A proposal for this future purpose must be submitted within nine (9) months of the completion of the original event. This proposal must be accompanied by the application found at http://www.ieee-ims.org/site/membership/chapter/Chapter_Funding_form_July2007.doc.
For a request for seed funding, please propose a budget that includes three scenarios: optimistic, realistic, and conservative financial income and expenditures. The conservative scenario should indicate a financial loss that is no greater than the funding guidelines listed for “Maximum Amount of Funds for an Event.” (Obviously, less loss than the maximum is preferred.)
As an example, for a “Significant Value-Added Event” that requires $1500 in expenditures, the conservative plan should show no more than $1000 loss, and $500 to be generated for the future activity. If that same event generated $1500 in revenue (i.e., the event “broke even”), then, $1500 would be available for a future activity.
Chapter Chairs, March 2008:
Agashe, Sudhjr headinst@vsnl.com Bombay Section Chapter
Akmeliawati, Rini rini.akmeliawati@eng.monash.edu.my Malaysia Section Chapter
Aloe, Frank frank.aloe@microchip.com Toronto Section Chapter
Arsov, Goce L. g.arsov@ieee.org Rep. of Macedonia Section Joint Chapter
Bilas, Vedran vedran.bilas@fer.hr Croatia Section Chapter
Castelli, Marcelo mcastelli@um.edu.uy Uruguay Section Joint Chapter
Dewey, Michael miked@geotestinc.com Central New England Council Chapter
Dubovoy, Volodymyr dub@faksu.vstu.vinnica.ua Ukraine Section Chapter
Golas, Nickolaos golas@telephonics.com Long Island Section Chapter
Golovanov, Carmen cgolov@electro.masuri.pub.ro Romania Section Chapter
Groza, Voicu groza@site.uottawa.ca Ottawa Section Chapter
Hadjiski, Mincho hadjiski@uctm.edu Bulgaria Section Joint Chapter
Hinkle, Gary gary@auxilium-inc.com Oregon Section Chapter
Iverson, Kyle iversonk56044@yahoo.com Twin Cities Section Chapter
Jobbagy, A’Kos jobbagy@mit.bme.hu Hungary Section Joint Chapter
Joshi, S. shri.joshi@marquette.edu Milwaukee Section Joint Chapter
Kale, Izzet izzet.kale@emu.edu.tr UKRI Section Chapter
Kanoun, Olfa kanoun@ieee.org Germany Section Chapter
Kyriazis, Gregory gakyriazis@inmetro.gov.br Rio de Janeiro Section Joint Chapter
Lalli, Vincent vincent_r_lalli@yahoo.com Cleveland Section Joint Chapter
Lee, Yeou-Song (Brian) brian.lee@ieee.org Santa Clara Valley Section Chapter
Martens, Olev olev@mtel.ee Estonia Section Joint Chapter
Mindykowski, Janusz janmind@am.gdynia.pl Poland Section Chapter
Petri, Dario petri@dit.unitn.it Italy Section Chapter
Proffitt, Scott sproffitt@acstestlab.com Atlanta Section Joint Chapter
Sachenko, Anatoly as@tanet.edu.te.ua Ukraine Section Joint Chapter
Shida, Katsunori shida@cc.saga-u.ac.jp Japan Council Chapter
Silverman, Gordon Gordon.silverman@manhattan.edu New York Section Chapter
Singh, V. vrsingh@ieee.org Delhi Section Chapter
Srinivas, T.K. tks@ieee.org New Jersey Coast Section Joint Chapter
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