IDAL Chapters: Running Your Chapter

Running Your Chapter Topics:
	Chapter Guidelines		By-Laws
	Annual Chapter Report		Dates to Remember
	Adele Bishop

Below you will find all the forms and information you need to run a successful Chapter. Please take the time to go over all of the forms and PDFs before they are due and feel free to ask questions. Whenever a new board steps in, have them come to this page and familiarize themselves with the Starting and Running an IDAL Chapter PDF and the other PDFs and forms.

Running a Chapter doesn’t have to be difficult but it can seem daunting if you don’t have al the information you need. This is why the Starting and Running an IDAL Chapter PDF was created. In it you will find everything from how to run a meeting to how to fill out required forms to what a newsletter can look like. This is an invaluable tool for helping your Chapter run smoothly and making sure your Chapter meets it’s legal, IRS and IDAL National requirements.

Download Starting and Running an IDAL Chapter PDF

Annual Chapter Report

This is one of the few reports required by IDAL each year. If you have been keeping good records throughout the year, you should be able to fill out the forms and pull all needed paperwork in a few hours. Make sure to include the entire board in thsi process, it makes things go much faster. This report is due on or before February 28 each year. Chapters that do not turn in Annual Chapter Reports will lose their affiliation.

Download the Annual Chapter Report

Adele Bishop Scholarship

Started in 1996, the scholarship is a great way to build solidarity within your Chapter and help your community. Not to mention the scholarship money you can win for your Chapter. You can't win if you don’t enter so read through the application and get your philanthropic project started.

Download the Adele Bishop Scholarship Application

Chapter By-laws

All Chapters must vote in the new set of By-laws by the end of 2008. This is being done to fulfill IRS requirement as well as to unify the procedures and rules of all the IDAL Chapters. You must send a copy of the minutes of the meeting during which the new By-laws were adopted as well as a copy of the version your Chapter has chosen. A full explanation of these new By-laws can be found in the document below as well as in the Staring and Running an IDAL Chapter PDF (Starting_Running_IDAL_Chapter.pdf). You will need a quorum to vote these. A quorum is no less than ⅕ of your membership.

Both documents should be sent to chapters@decorativeartisans.org

Download the New Chapter By-laws

Dates to Remember

• February 28 - Annual Chapter Reports Due
• July - Adele Bishop Application due
• September - Chapter Board elections held
• September 30 - New Chapter Board roster due
• December 31 - End of Chapter fiscal year

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