• 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
        
        
    • 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
        
        
  • 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
      
      
  • 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
      
      
  • 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