Building NACS - Building Rural America
Objective: To establish a process in order that all members and potential members of the Association will have access to NACS and the opportunity to obtain/retain membership in the Association. This will ensure a dynamic organization now and in the future.
Goal: Increase membership in the Association thereby increasing the base of knowledge, experiences and capabilities of the organization.
Step 1 - Identifying and Prioritizing Recruitment Identification
Potential regular members include all positions with farm loan responsibilities (except political appointment positions) or those in training to obtain their farm loan program approval authority. Regular membership also includes positions with farm loan program management authority. Positions include the following:
- Farm Loan Manager
- Senior Farm Loan Officer
- Farm Loan Officer (& Trainees)
- Farm Loan Specialist
- Farm Loan Chief
- District Director
- County Executive Director (with loan approval authority)
- National and Finance Office personnel with program management authority
- Staff Appraisers
- Farm Loan Analyst
- Program Technicians with primarily Farm Loan responsibility
Potential associate members include all other individuals who have an interest in the objectives of NACS but do not qualify for regular membership. These include:
- Program Technicians without
primary Farm Loan responsibility
- CED’s without loan approval authority
- State Executive Directors
- Non-Agency personnel
Prioritizing Recruitment
- Members on previous NACS dues waiver
- New Members – not previously a member of NACS and new to the Agency (1-3 years)
- New Members – not previously a member of NACS but have been employed (>3-5 years)
- Recent Members – those who have been members in the last few years but are not currently
Step 2 – Establishing contact
State President shall identify and contact all new potential members providing them with the membership marketing materials.
Names for potential members shall be forwarded to the NACS Membership Committee member for their zone with a copy to the Zone Representative
Materials to provide all potential members are available on the www.nacs-fsa.org website under the Membership tab as well as in the back of this guide.