Membership Benefits Preview
Join a unique coalition of organizations engaged in local, regional, national and cross-border initiatives dedicated to healing our fractured relationships with nature and community. To nurture this movement, the Orion Grassroots Network offers strategic support services to ease the isolation of working issue-by-issue, providing a forum where groups see their work as part of a broad movement for cultural change.
Join the OGN for as little as $30/year and receive the following membership benefits:
Practical Support
GrantStation.com—members get free access to GrantStation.com‘s online Find-a-Funder database of 6,000 foundations and grantmakers—a $599 value. Find-a-Funder is highly searchable, with 165 issue areas and 30 funding support types indexed. Take a tour here for more information and to see their extensive “how-to” section for better fundraising.
Grassroots Jobsource: free listings—publicize your internship and job openings via this highly effective service and monthly email update sent to thousands of recipients nationwide. Non-members pay $25 per listing to post with us. The jobs are circulated widely outside the Grassroots Network, and are linked to from the Orion magazine website.
“We have received some fantastic applicants! It really attracts top-notch candidates.”
—Aspen Center for Environmental Studies, Aspen, CO
Insure your Volunteers, your Employees’ Health, and your Directors and Officers—enjoy the security of protection for your organization’s volunteers and/or its director and officers with the Irwin Siegel Agency, a leading insurer for nonprofits. Claims against your board or director or from an injured volunteer can be costly, while coverage is not. Also, the Network is now offering a Limited Benefit Health Plan: a cost-effective supplement to a comprehensive health plan, or affordable stop-gap basic coverage for you and your employees when no other plans are within your budget. Irwin Siegel Agency offers top notch service to members of the Orion Grassroots Network.
Public Relations Assistance—Let It Be Known Public Relations specializes in nonprofit clients and offers 30% off its services for Orion Grassroots Network members.
Grassroots Fundraising Journal—get practical tips and tools to help you raise money for your organization by subscribing to Grassroots Fundraising Journal for a special introductory rate of $30/year for 6 issues, a 25-50% savings off the usual price.
Film Rental Discount—raise funds for your group and awareness in your community by arranging a grassroots screening of a film from Bullfrog Films, the oldest and largest publisher of films about the environment and social justice in the United States. Members receive 30% off on film rentals for grassroots screenings.
Member Page—describing your work and providing links to your website and email address. Member pages are highly visible to visitors to the Orion websites and internet search engines. A member page will increase traffic to your own site—or even act as your site if you don’t have one.
Events Calendar—post information and announcements online about your organization’s upcoming workshops, conferences, or other events, as well as list resources you offer to the public.
Announcements: list your organization’s achievements, actions, and calls to action in this valuable place on the OGN website.
Elevacion Web Design Discount—Elevacion specializes in visual communication for nonprofits. A nonprofit itself, Elevacion can design or redesign your organization’s logo or website in style. Orion Grassroots Network member groups receive a 32% discount off their services. Visit the Elevacion site for more information.
Inspiration
Free digital subscription to Orion magazine—six issues per year of The Orion Society’s award-winning publication, bringing the vision of people, nature, and activism to light.
Deep discounts on print subscriptions to Orion.
Conference Calls—members receive invitations to learn from notable authors and thinkers, from Richard Louv and Bill McKibben to experts on fundraising and organizing strategy. Click here to listen to audio from past calls.
Members get all of these benefits and more are on the way…
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Membership Criteria
The Orion Grassroots Network is for people at work in social benefit organizations whose missions serve people and planet. Almost all of these people are employed by non-profit organizations (NGOs), which the services of the Network are most appropriate to. Some also are doing this work with unincorporated/ad hoc groups or educational institutions, and some member groups even describe themselves as for-profit or quasi-governmental. So long as a group can demonstrate that it is mission-driven for social benefit, it is welcomed here, because change comes in various forms.
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