How to Apply

For Standard and Associate Membership, please provide a narrative proposal describing the activities of your center and how your center meets the NACC membership criteria. If you are applying for Associate Membership, describe your center's plans to address these items over a specified period of time. A check for $250 (which is applied as the first year's membership dues if accepted) should also accompany your application. We strongly encourage you to contact the NACC office (info below) prior to sbumitting a membership application.

The narrative summary should include:

• Brief background or history of your center.
• Mission or statement of purpose for your center.
• An explanation of the governance or reporting structure for your center, including any leadership entities such as community advisory or faculty councils that may be involved.
• Description of your center's research agenda and activities, education programs, and community engagement activities. Please be as detailed as possible, and feel free to provide lists of research publications, nonprofit courses, numbers of students, examples of engagement activities, bios of key faculty and leadership, etc.

Please submit the Application Form and the Narrative, and any supporting documents:

• Electronically to the contact and address below, and the original
• Via US mail, with a check for $250 made payable to "NACC".

  Amy McClellan
  Executive Director
  Nonprofit Academic Centers Council
  10900 Euclid Avenue
  Cleveland, OH 44106-7167
  Ph: (216) 368-0969 Fax: (216) 368-8592
  amcclellan-nacc@cwru.edu