- Benefits of becoming a sanctioned event of the Association in 2015 include:
- Credibility
- Event application process helps ensure essential elements are present for event success
- Event and finance directors must pass a background check
- Event becomes a legal entity
- Event becomes “sanctioned”
- Specific policies are standardized among all Association events
- Accreditation by utilizing best practices in event planning and operations
- Specific policies are standardized among all Association events
- Event beneficiaries are vetted:
- Must be a not-for-profit seeking 501(c)3 status or an existing 501(c)3 with credible history
- Beneficiaries are required to provide an annual accounting of funds received
- Must be a not-for-profit seeking 501(c)3 status or an existing 501(c)3 with credible history
- Event application process helps ensure essential elements are present for event success
- Liability
- Your event operates under the auspices of a 501(c)3
- Tax preparation provided by Association’s accountant
- Event insurance
- Event organizers are covered under Association’s insurance
- Your event operates under the auspices of a 501(c)3
- Support
- Event email account
- Event domain name (website), hosting and builder tools
- White paper documents on event planning, website and social media actions, finances
- Bank account / checkbook / debit card / electronic payment processing
- Event registration system
- Online pledge platform (if desired)
- Climb specific items sourced and may be donated or highly discounted
- Access to volume discounts
- Sample event policies
- Immediate access to mentors (fellow event directors) who want to help your event succeed
- Event email account
- Destiny
- You help control your own as well as other climb destinies
- Association’s Board of Directors is comprised of stair climb directors looking out only for stair climbs needs and concerns
- Any member of your event planning committee has the opportunity to set on the advisory board
- Association’s Board of Directors is comprised of stair climb directors looking out only for stair climbs needs and concerns
- You help control your own as well as other climb destinies
- Credibility