2024-2025 Supporting and Sustaining Membership Costs
As part of our budget development process for the 2024-2025 fiscal term, all expected non-reunion expenses were reviewed to estimate administrative costs for the organization that should be covered by membership fees and donations. The past 2 terms, we opted not to adjust these fees to keep pace with inflation - 25.26% since 2018. Additionally, this fiscal term, we will incur significant, one-time switching costs for moving platforms from Wild Apricot to MemberLeap. We, therefore, decided we needed to increase membership fees by $10. That's just $5/yr.
The next time you renew, you will see:
Supporting Member $35/2 years
Sustaining Member $55/2 years
Sustaining Member $55/2 years
What are the administrative costs that go into setting these fees?
- Storing and maintenance of the online AramcoBrat Directory, which lists the contact information (mailing addresses, phone numbers and email addresses) for everyone in the ABI database who wants their information published.
- Other website costs, such as subscription fees for web-hosting, software (content, membership and event management), and domain registration.
- All other administrative costs of running our organization such as accounting software licensing, banking fees, insurance, printing, and postage.
ABI's budget and quarterly financial reports are available online for your review.
As always, we are very grateful for your financial support to help defray these costs. Shukran!