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2026 Membership Dues: What Changes and What Doesn’t

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The executive has set dues for the 2026 membership year. The headline: the rates are unchanged.

What is not changing

Every tier stays at its 2025 price. The committee looked hard at raising them and decided against it — the association’s costs have risen, but not by enough to justify asking more of members in a year when many chapters are still rebuilding attendance.

What is changing

Renewal is now tracked per member rather than per chapter. Each member has a paid-through date, and reminders go out before it rather than after. If your membership lapses, there is a 30-day grace period before access ends.

Renewing during grace extends from your original paid-through date, not from the day you pay, so nobody loses months by paying late. Renewing after a lapse starts from the day you pay.

How to pay

Card, bank transfer, mobile money, or cash to your chapter treasurer — all four are accepted and all four are now recorded in the same place. Offline payers will be given a reference to quote.

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