Organizational Membership

AMLA has three categories of organizational members with dues pro-rated for size and scope. Click on each category to meet the organizationalmembers in that category. 

National Educational Organizations
Educational organizations that provide service to the media education field throughout the United States.

Budget under $500,000  –  $500

Budget under $500,000  –  $350

Academic Centers and Programs
Colleges and universities with interest in media literacy education – courses, degree programs or research. 

Annual Dues: $300

Local / State / Regional Groups
Smaller organizations that serve a limited geographical area – schools and after-school programs, youth-serving groups, computer, video or technology centers, etc.

Annual Dues: $150

How Organizational Membership Works

By joining with the AMLA in a formal relationship, organizational members:

• Enrich the national picture of the diverse groups that are actively working toward the broad goal of expanding media literacy education as a learning skill for the 21st century. 

• Reinforce the AMLA as the national presence and voice for media literacy in the United States.

• Directly link their organization to other member organizations as well as to AMLA's individual members.

• Showcase their programs to AMLA's members who care passionately about media literacy issues.

 National / Local Areas of Responsibility

The AMLA does not compete with other organizations or duplicate program efforts of its organizational members.

Instead, AMLA provides the infrastructure and leadership for an alliance of individuals and organizations in the US, and provides the means for overall communication and strategic planning within the media literacy education field.

Organizations exercise their membership through a designated liaison, someone who can represent your group's interests in the media literacy field. Like individual members, they may vote, participate in AMLA committees, even run for the Board of Directors.

If you work in an organization that is involved in some way in media literacy education we invite you to apply for Organizational membership.

Together, we can accomplish more than we each can do alone.

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Organizational Member Benefits

In addition to the basic benefits and services provided to all members, organizational members receive several additional considerations:

1. WebSite Posting Notice:

Showcase your organization and its services or involvement in media literacy education through a 100 - 150 word posting notice on the AMLA website. Display your logo if you wish and as you write up your notice, embed up to 5 hyperlinks to specific sections of your site. It's like a 365-day "billboard" linking you not just to AMLA members but to the wider media literacy community that cares passionately about media literacy programs, services and opportunities . The notice is updatable every year at time of renewal.

2. Full Member Benefits for your liaison

The designated liaison you name from your organization  will automatically receive all the member benefits and voting privleges of a regular membership. (Worth $60.)

3. Cross-promotional Opportunities

• Permission use the AMLA name in publicizing and promoting your own media literacy programs or actitivies (e.g. "The Center for Media" is an organizational member of the Alliance for a Media Literate America.")

• Open invitation to post news items and upcoming events in both the AMLA Update and the new Media Literacy events calendar on this website.

• Opportunity to apply to Program Committee of AMLA to officially co-sponsor and/or participate in conferences and events that promote media literacy education.

• Opportunity to showcase your work through presentations at the National Conference. Members receive extra consideration in evaluating proposal submissions.

• Permission to link to AMLA's website from your own and to encourage your own staff, board and constitutency to join AMLA as the leading national organization dedicated to advancing inquiry-based media literacy education. We hope you will also promote AMLA Marketplace, website and membership to your constitutency. 

To see if organizational membership is right for your organization, contact the Organizational Membership Coordinator on the Membership Committee.

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