1. Putting Dues Dollars Back in Your Pocket
Rob Belcher, Jackie Miller, and Ann Wilkins
Putting Dues Dollars Back in Your Pocket

2. Putting Dues $$ Back in Your Pocket:
Membership Benefits at the Local Level
Session Focus: Helping members save money using their membership at the local level

3. NEA/ISTA Member Benefits
Our state and national memberships provide us with a lot of perks, but many of them don’t feel tangible. Many of these perks are used for special occasions like vacations, buying a car, buying a home, etc. Also, some members may be deterred from these perks because they are housed online.

4. CREATING Local Deals...
Creating membership benefits at the local level creates more buy-in because they are deals that can be used frequently.
In order to do this, you have to think about your community:
What are their needs, wants, values, daily activities, etc? Then you start looking for deals!

5. My Action Plan: Discount Cards
We all have seen or even purchased discount cards from school teams that have discounts at various places around our community. I realized that our local should have the same type of deals!
I made a list of possible restaurants, retailers, companies, etc that are popular in my community. I really focused on family-owned businesses
I ed, called, or had face-to-face meetings with the owners to discuss possible discounts or free items that our members could receive
I created a two-year contract for each owner to sign.

7. Other ideas...
Activities: I organized a sand volleyball league that is for our township employees only. We offered a discounted price to members. They also received coupons for each week to use at the concession stand.
Taxes: I called several independently owned accounting offices to negotiate prices for filing taxes. Many of the local offices gave discounted prices.
Newsletters/Prize Drawings: I create monthly newsletters that highlight membership perks from our ISTA/NEA websites. In these newsletters, I also give out random gift cards that I have received as donations OR we have purchased with our budget.
s: I sent out a couple of s each month with links to various promotions: NEA articles on teaching, scholarship information, or other temporary deals.

10. Travel Discounts on ISTA site
AVR Van Rental – 5% discount Fast Park & Relax - $7.95/day Crowne Plaza Union Station - $139 Hilton Downtown - $115 Drury Northeast - $83 Drury Carmel- $125 5% discount at any other Drury Sheraton City Center - $125 Sheraton Keystone Crossing - $125 Embassy Suites Downtown - $107 for two-room suite Great Wolf Lodge Cincinnati- 30% discount

11. Insurance Discounts on ISTA website
Horace Mann California Casualty

12. Shopping on ISTA website
PerksCard ISTA's partnership with PerksCard provides members and their families with discounts from merchants right where you live and work. Once registered you will be able to view discounts from local featured merchants. Save with national and local retailers near you! PayCheck Direct ISTA members can this convenient purchase program that allows you to buy now and pay for it interest-free over time with low payments.

13. Shopping on ISTA website (cont)
Bose® Special savings offered to ISTA Members. Discounts available on most Bose® products, including music systems, surround sound systems, headphones and solutions for today's most popular portable music devices. EcoInk Benefits Save 30 percent to 70 percent off retail for ink and toner. This eco-superstore offers free shipping on orders over $39.

14. NEA Finance

15. NEA Insurance

16. NEA Travel

17. NEA Professional

18. NEA Home and Auto Discounts

19. NEA Everyday Discounts

20. Everyday Discounts

21. Everyday Discounts

22. Savings

23. Click & Save

24. Contact Information
Rob Belcher – Jackie Miller – Ann Wilkins –