Please pay your dues to your club treasurer so
that they can be sent to Toastmasters
International by March 30, 2007
Thank you!
Date: March 1, 2006
Its that time again to collect Toastmaster's Dues.
Please reply to me, Janet Hall, and indicate the
following:
[ ] I will be attending the next Hill Speakers'
meeting, and will bring a check for $30.00
made out to "The Hill Speakers".
[ ] I will not be able to attend next week's
meeting, but will mail Janet a check for
$30.00 made out to "The Hill Speakers" by
3/20/2006 at the following address:
Janet L. Hall
BT
4201 Lexington Avenue North
Arden Hills, MN 55126
[ ] I will not be re-joining The Hill Speakers.
Please respond per the above, so I don't have to
waste your valuable time (or mine!) with alot of
additional messages.
Upon joining Toastmasters, you will find yourself paying three
different fees. One is the standard $20.00 fee that every new
member must pay in order to receive educational materials (see
below). One is the standard International dues, $4.50 per
month. One is your Club dues, if any.
All Toastmasters clubs are billed in March and September for
semi-annual dues for their members who wish to remain members
for the next six months. If you join in between those
periods, you submit a _pro-rated_ share of the dues.
Clubs usually charge dues on top of the world dues. This is
so they'll have money in the treasury for expenses. It's up
to each club what they want to charge. Some clubs waive the
club dues for new members and only assess them at the semi-
annual dues payment dates.
So, to make a long story short, if you join at the following
times, you'd owe:
April or October: $20.00 + $27.00 + club dues
May or November: $20.00 + $22.50 + club dues
June or December $20.00 + $18.00 + club dues
July or January $20.00 + $13.50 + club dues
August or February $20.00 + $9.00 + club dues
September or March $20.00 + $4.50 + club dues
Then, once you're signed up, dues of $27.00 are assessed every
six months, in September and March.
4. If I belong to more than one club, do I have to pay full dues for each?
Yes. If you belong to more than one club, you must nonetheless pay full
dues for each club.
5. Are my dues tax deductible?
In the United States, they are -- IF your job is of a sort
that requires or necessitates good communications skills. In
other words, it must be an educational expense to be tax
deductible. Toastmasters International will send you complete
tax deduction explanations if you request them to do so.
6. What do I get for my dues?
Your $27.00 semi-annual dues paid to World Headquarters goes
partly for a subscription to the _Toastmaster_ magazine
(which, to be honest, is an excellent magazine), partly to
support development of new educational programs (they've got
some *nice* new programs coming out these days), partly to
support operations at World Headquarters (i.e. the staff who
process membership applications, CTM applications, new club
applications, etc. etc. ad nauseam), and partly to support
your local District organization.
Furthermore, when you finish your CTM, you get three of the
Advanced project manuals for no extra charge to work toward
your ATM with.
Dues went up for the first time in over ten years last year
and as a result, dues should not rise for a long time (it was
like pulling teeth to get the most recent dues raise through,
and some members remain unconvinced that it was necessary).
This raise had a lot to do with printing costs and so forth
quintupling over the last decade.
Your club dues generally go to pay for the club's supplies,
such as ballots, awards, ribbons, and educational materials.
In some cases, such as when your club has a meal at each
meeting, your dues may go to pay for that.
7. What do I get for my New Member fee?
Your $20.00 New Member fee gets you the following:
* the Communication and Leadership project manual
* the "Gestures - Your Body Speaks" manual
* the "A Speaker's Guide to Evaluation" manual
* the Voice manual
The latter three are instructional manuals rather than project
manuals. Only the first is a workbook.
8. If I want to drop out of Toastmasters after joining, what do I
do?
Simply wait for March or September to arrive and don't pay
your dues again.
It'd probably be a good idea to let your Vice President
Education know to stop scheduling you for speeches, though.
Give Toastmasters a try! If you want information about clubs in your
area, do one of the following:
* call (714) 858-8255 and ask
* send a postcard to TI, P.O. Box 9052, Mission Viejo, CA 92690
* access http://www.toastmasters.org/index.html
* send email (include a postal address)
We're looking forward to seeing you!
* Note: due to California law, members of _California_ clubs
pay sales tax on their new member fee.
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