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Become
a Member / Support Our Work!
 First,
you do not have to be a dues-paying PFLAG member to
participate or volunteer with our PFLAG Phoenix chapter. Of
course, we encourage everyone to become dues-paying members
(or contributing supporters) to help us fulfill our mission
of support, education, and advocacy.
Regardless of whether you become an official member or not,
we hope that you'll continue to come and participate fully
in all activities of our chapter.
There are two types of PFLAG
membership:
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Membership at the
"national" level (i.e., directly with PFLAG "National")
-
Membership at the local
level (i.e., directly with PFLAG Phoenix)
We hope that you'll join at
the local level so that more of your funds will benefit our
chapter and, ultimately, our community. If you were to join
at the "national" level, all your funds would be put to use
at the national PFLAG office for their projects, staff,
etc. While that is certainly worthwhile to support, none of
those funds come to our local community. Therefore, if you
join at the local level, your funds are assured to be put to
work right here in Phoenix and the surrounding area (note:
with a local membership, we are required to pay $15
per household to the national organization to help support
their work, so you still help them out even by joining at
the local level).
The benefits of
membership with PFLAG Phoenix include:
- The welcoming support of families and friends at
local
support meetings
- Monthly issues of the PFLAG Phoenix newsletter
- Automatic membership with PFLAG
"National"
- Quarterly issues of PFLAG National's newsletter,
The
PFLAGpole
- Opportunities to act against homophobia
- "Action Alerts" from a multitude of local and
national sources (via optional free
email subscription)
- "News Updates" from a multitude of local and
national sources (via optional free
email subscription)
- Discounts on PFLAG
National publications
- Invitations to local, regional and national events and
conferences
- Voting privileges for PFLAG National board members
 YES,
I want to join PFLAG Phoenix and support it's mission
of support, education and
advocacy!
To become a
member of PFLAG Phoenix, simply:
- Print our
PFLAG
Phoenix Membership Form, and
- Mail the completed form along with your check (payable to
"PFLAG Phoenix") to:
PFLAG Phoenix Membership
2942 N. 24th St.
Suite 114-310
Phoenix, AZ 85016
PFLAG Phoenix is a tax-exempt,
non-profit 501(c)3 organization that is not affiliated with any
political or religious institution. Your contribution is
deductible for tax purposes as permitted by federal and state
law.
A note about our annual PFLAG Phoenix
membership drive: PFLAG Phoenix must
remit a portion of the dues payments we receive from chapter
members annually to PFLAG National. "National's" annual
fiscal year ends September 30th and we are required to submit
our dues payment to them the following month in October.
Therefore, it was approved by our PFLAG Phoenix Steering
Committee that future chapter membership drives will be
conducted each year in September so that dues payments may be
collected and payment remitted to "National" in October of each
year. Consequently, our PFLAG Phoenix membership year will
run from September 1st through August 31st of each year.
All membership dues received up through August 31st will be
applied to the current chapter membership year. All
membership dues received on September 1st or after will be
applied to the new chapter membership year. |
