Corporate Membership

Corporate memberships are a way for companies and organizations to register three or more of their employees for a membership.

This is an opportunity for employers to save money on registration fees for conferences and other professional development and networking opportunities for their staff.

Some examples of possible corporate memberships might be:

The copy desk at a newspaper.
Professors in a university department of journalism.
Editors working in the communications office of a company or organization.
The marketing and communications staff of a sports team.
The editing staff in a federal agency.

Benefits

All corporate members have all the same privileges as full members.

These include voting in Board elections, serving on committees and the Board, and full access to all member benefits. However, while ACES memberships are held in the names of the individual employees, the company retains the rights to the membership and can reassign as it wishes. This might happen, for instance, if an employee leaves the company or transfers to a different division.

Key Contact

One member in a corporate membership is designated the Key Contact.

This person has responsibility for keeping membership dues up to date and managing the membership roster. If they stop being the Key Contact for whatever reason, they should make sure another employee is made the Key Contact, so as not to interrupt membership. They are invited to contact ACES to facilitate this.

Administrator

The administrator on a corporate membership receives all emails and invoices.

The administrator is not a member of ACES and does not have a profile. The Key Contact can also be designated the administrator, however.

Notes

If one or two people sign up for a Corporate membership, the account will remain "pending" until or unless at least three names are added. Corporate memberships are for groups of three or more. The corporate members need to be linked to their corporate account in the database, which the member does with ACES' help.
If only one person wishes to sign up for an ACES membership, they should choose the "full" member option.
Three or more members employed by the same company who have joined as individuals can change their full membership to corporate at the time of membership renewal.
Key contacts and administrators will be able to view who their corporate members are, but they cannot view the content of the profiles.
Corporate members whose companies have let its corporate membership lapse are welcome to reinstate their membership as an individual "full" member. If it's has been a year or more after an expiration date, the members are moved to nonmember status. Members can also contact ACES for assistance by emailing membership@aceseditors.org.