Expired Membership

Are you having problems with your membership? Can you still access your personal profile within BPW/USA on-line? Have you misplaced your most recent dues invoice? Have you paid your dues in a timely manner but National still has not acknowledged your payment? 

These are all the questions that have been bouncing around in my head since I downloaded our state national membership list on July 1, 2006. We have a real problem right now and I want to hear from you the member as to how I can or any member of EC committee can help you with solving your membership issues. As of the above download date, our current state membership stands at 475. That is down by 76 members since our May convention. And my big fear is that you as individual members are not even aware of it. I base this assumption on the fact that many of you have filled out your local officer information sheets and turned them in on time. Some local presidents listed do not show up on the current membership list. That means that you are NOT your local’s president. You can only hold an office in any organization if your full dues are paid up to date.

I know that problems can occur within any organization, and BPW is not immune from making an error. After all, we are only human, even a computer does the processing. It is still human input at some point. Let me know before I depart for National Conference in Dallas so that I can take your individual complaints, issues, problems you’ve had up to this point and let’s see if by going directly to human contact we can resolve these issues. Give me as many details about what has transpired up to this point and let’s see what I can find out for you. I may have success by going to the source. 

Remember, if you are a local president with an expired membership, I can not print your contact information in the Michigan Manual. I would hate to have that happen, as I know you would be disappointed too.

Penny Modlin

BPW/MI President