Membership
Benefits

Project
Membership

Types of Project Memberships

Project Membership Benefits

  • Attendance at an OTA grant writing workshop. Individuals can be from the project, or the institution or both.
  • Only OTA members can nominate potential recipients for the following student opportunities:
    1. OTA Dirks TRIO Achiever Scholarships
    2. Student Advisory Board, and
    3. Any Additional Scholarship Opportunities
  • OTA members can apply to receive partial funding for the travel cost of OTA award recipients to come to the Fall NAEOP conference when project and/or institutional funds are not sufficient and a student has been selected for a scholarship.
  • Discounted rates at OTA professional development opportunities, including OTA Spring Conference.
  • Only OTA members can receive funding from OTA in support of grant writing activities or reviewers.
  • Eligibility to run for an Officer of the Board of Directors.
  • Project students are eligible to attend the Student Leadership Conference

Voting Members

All employees of a TRIO project shall be considered Voting Members, provided the project’s dues are paid in full.

Project Membership Fee

The current Project Member Fee is 0.15% of your TRIO projects Academic Year GAN.

Project Membership Period

Project memberships become effective on September 1 and ends on August 31. 

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Individual
Membership

Types of Individual Memberships

Non-voting Members

Active Non-TRIO members shall be persons whose purpose, goals, and objectives are consistent with those of the Association as specified in Article I of the Constitution, including alumni of Oregon TRIO programs.  ANT memberships are limited to 10% of the total membership.

Individual Membership Fees

Active TRIO and Active Non-TRIO persons may become Individual Members by paying the Treasurer the Individual Membership Fee set by the Board. The current fee is $50.

(Individual memberships are not available to individuals who can be classified as a voting member)

Individual Membership Period

Membership becomes effective on September 1 (or whenever the membership is paid) and ends on August 31 of the same calendar year. 

Oregon TRIO Association members gather outdoors in matching blue jackets for a group photo with oversized letters spelling “TRIO,” accompanied by two dogs, against a scenic backdrop of open fields and pine trees.
Oregon TRIO Association members pose on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., holding advocacy signs and a National Association of Educational Opportunity Programs (NAEOP) sign during the annual Policy Seminar.
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