Become Part of an AAFCS Community!
Are you looking for a way to connect with your peers on issues that matter?
Enhance your resume by honing your online networking and communication skills? Build leadership skills by generating and leading discussions? AAFCS online Communities allow you to do all this and more!
Easy. Targeted. Effective. These are three words to describe
AAFCS Communities – a
new way to take action on topics relevant to
individuals, families, communities, and of course, family and
consumer sciences professionals.
Whether your area of interest is entrepreneurship, education, or research (or all three!), an AAFCS Community
gives you the opportunity to converge with your colleagues
and take action on a topic. Click
here for a list of current online Communities.
Inspired to build your own online Community? Just
let us know what topic interests you, and together we can
build a Community around it!
Once you identify a topic, we’ll help you
connect with fellow AAFCS members to form a Community. It
only takes six people (one of whom is willing to be the Community
Leader) and a Statement of Purpose. When your application
has been approved, the next step is to develop a simple Plan
of Action with a request for funding if necessary. After that,
you’re all set!
Join an AAFCS Community TODAY. It’s one way every member can
benefit from Transforming AAFCS: New Era of Action.
Members: as the Communities Web Portal is password-protected,
please have your email address and AAFCS member number handy—you'll
need them to access the site. Unless you've previously changed your information online, your user name is your email address
and your password is your member number. If AAFCS doesn't have
your email address on file, than your member number is both your user name and password. Ready? Access Communities now!
Not yet an AAFCS member? Create your profile and join online, today!
To obtain a PDF copy of the entire AAFCS Communities Policies and
Information Handbook, please click
here.
For a Microsoft Word document
of the forms contained in the Handbook click
here.
For questions about AAFCS Communities, email smott@aafcs.org.
Background
Proposed Recommendations
regarding Communities of Interest and/or Practice
Effective May 1, 2007
Results of Senate Action
June 24, 2006
- Eliminate current structure of sections and divisions.
- Encourage Communities of Interest/Practice to form, using
the member management system via the new online data bank
technology.
- Encourage the Communities to self-form online, based on
common interests in their data profiles. They can select
from a variety of special projects, policy issues, research
projects, or a desire for action on current issues that
promote the mission of AAFCS. Communities would exist only
as long as interest persists or until the project is completed.
- Encourage Communities’ leaders to emerge naturally.
Team members would change as needed, and communities would
function under the purview of the Board of Directors.
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