Definition of Membership

Any person employed by an organization defined as a local or regional not-for-profit economic development organization, cooperative rural utility, associations, or government agency, educational institutions, and economic development related vendors such as consultants, development companies, real estate services, financial institutions, law firms, accounting firms and site consultants, construction companies, real estate development, and retired employees of said organizations.

Rural utilities shall be defined as organizations that borrow monies or are eligible to borrow monies from (1) Rural Utility Service, (2) National Rural Utilities Cooperative Finance Corporation, (3) Rural Telephone Bank or (4) CoBank and Rural Water Districts.

The membership shall be in the name of the person as identified on the membership application.


Categories of Membership

1. Individual Member: Those individuals who qualify for membership as above may qualify to be Individual Members and shall be entitled to all the rights and privileges of membership, including, but not limited to, voting, the right to vote and the right to hold office.
2. Honorary Member: A past president or founder of the Association. Dues and Annual Conference registrations are complimentary for Honorary Members. Honorary Members shall be selected and approved by the Board of Directors as needed.
3. Student Member: An individual enrolled at a college, university, community college or other educational institution full-time (12+ credit hours) at the undergraduate (or graduate level) in an economic development or related degree program.