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Spring 2009 Affiliation Renewal

Submitted by august on Thu, 2008-10-09 14:49.

Twice a year the Secular Student Alliance asks all its affiliates to update their contact information with the Alliance and tell us a bit about their operations. Other than agreeing to the Minimum Statement, this is the only requirement for affiliating with the Alliance. Alliance affiliates all have access to project and travel grants, support from Alliance staff, the Alliance speakers bureau and many other services. Most importantly of all though, the affiliation survey allows the Alliance to know how to do the best possible job at servinig its affiliates.

The survey should take between 5 and 15 minutes to complete. 

We strongly recommend that you read over the whole survey and gather the information you need before you begin.  Unfortunately, it is not possible to save the survey midway.  So you are best off having all the information before you start.  If you find that you are only missing one or two small pieces of information, feel free to submit the  survey and simply email us the additional information. 

Thank you! 

Group Contact Information - to be shared on http://www.secularstudents.org/affiliates
*Group Name:
*School:
Is your group operational?
*Group email address:
it will be obscured on our public page to reduce risk of spam
Group web address:
Group Facebook address:
Why do we want to publish your mailing address?
The Secular Student Alliance prides itself on publishing an up-to-date directory of all of its affiliates. This is a simple way to make secularism look as normal and credible as it really is. The simple act of publishing physical mailing addresses for our affiliates makes them, and the whole movement, more visible and credible. We understand that some groups are not issued an address by their school and that leaders are sometimes reluctant to have their home address published. That is why this field is optional. However, we strongly encourage you to provide a public mailing address to increase the credibility of the movement. We have been publishing this information since 2001 and have yet to hear of a single group leader having a problem with their address being associated with their group.
Public Group Postal Address:
We occasionally need to send postal mail (e.g. grant checks, custom business cards, tabling supplies)
to our affiliates. We will NOT publish this address.
*Private Group Postal Address:
Group Leadership/Contact Information
we are more interested in who wants to be in touch with the Alliance than rank within your organization
*Primary Leader/Contact Name:
Primary Leader/Contact Postal Address:
*Primary Leader/Contact email address:
Primary Leader/Contact phone number:
Is this person going to be the in this position in the fall? If you are unsure, leave this unchecked.
*Secondary Leader/Contact Name:
Secondary Leader/Contact Postal Address:
*Secondary Leader/Contact email address:
Secondary Leader/Contact phone number:
Is this person going to be the in this position in the fall? If you are unsure, leave this unchecked.
*Faculty/Staff Advisor Name:
Faculty/Staff Advisor Postal Address:
*Faculty/Staff Advisor email address:
Faculty/Staff Advisor phone number:
Membership Information
Check this box if your groups has any kind of formal Membership Tracking System?
*How many members does your organization have?
*How many people are on your mailing list or Facebook group?
What percentage of the members of your group are male?
Group Infrastructure - check which ones your group uses:
Email lists/listserv/Yahoogroup/Googlegroup
A SchoolName@secularstudents.org email forward
A short web address that forwards to a Facebook account or the like (i.e. www.secularstudents.org/SchoolName)
A Group Bank Account
Office Space
Group Brochures
Group Business Cards
We use none of these
Are there specific individuals who you know are likely to be the leaders of your group next year?
Does your group have a newsletter? If so, please give us a link to subscribe to it. If not, please leave this line blank.
How frequently does your group meet?
Typically, on which day(s) are your general meetings?
Does your group cooperate with any off-campus/adult/nonstudent organizations (i.e., AHA chapters, CFI groups, Ethical Societies, UU Churches, etc)? If so, which ones and how?:
Does your group have a particular success you would like to share with us?:
Is your group having any problems you would like to tell us about?:
Check here if you would like someone from SSA to contact you about setting up an @secularstudents.org email forward OR a short Facebook forwarding URL?
Group Acitivites - check any activities your group participated in within the last 12 months:
Discussion meetings
Darwin Day
Superstition Bash
Service Activity
Hosting a Speaker
Hosting a Debate
Movie Screening
Political Activism
None of the above
What other activities has your group participated in the last 12 months?
Has your group had any events in the last 12 months that might make good stories for our newsletter?
SSA Services - check any SSA Services your group used within the last 12 months:
Project Grants
Travel Grants
One-on-one guidance from SSA Staff
Business Cards
Flyer Exchange
Tabling Supplies/Brochures/Literature
Best Awards (won or applied for)
Service Trip Packet
Media Relations/Press Releases
Group Starting Packet
Group Running Guide
Annual Conference
Local Collaboration Handbook
Speaker Event Planning Checklist
Speaker from our Speakers Bureau (who?)
We have not used any of these services
We did not know about any of these services
What SSA services have been the most helpful?
What services would you like to see the SSA provide in the future?
Comments
Any other comments you wish to pass along to our staff:
How many minutes did it take you to gather the information to fill out this survey?
Once you gathered the information, how many minutes did it take you to fill out this survey?
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