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The CSSA has been connecting hobbyists, growers, and scientists to local cactus and succulent clubs since the Affiliate Program began in the 1930s.

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Resources & Information for Affiliate Clubs

Affiliate News

Bulletins and announcements from the Affiliate Committee will be collected here, along with other blog posts of interest to affiliate reps. Of course, news from affiliate clubs is regularly featured in To the Point.

Resources for Societies
National Speaker List – COMING SOON

FOR PROGRAM DIRECTORS – We are working on a contact list of speakers available to give talks at your meetings.

Creating & Maintaining a Local Society

FOR ALL BOARD MEMBERS AND FOUNDERS – The Affiliate Committee has published this PDF guide to help officers and board members start and run a non-profit plant society. Download a free copy.

Audiovisual help for meetings

FOR AV VOLUNTEERS – The San Francisco Society has a Facebook Group where volunteers working on audio and video or zoom for society meetings can ask questions and share technical information, tutorial videos, etc.



Affiliate Membership and Updating Your Listings

Affiliate Society Memberships

Affiliate clubs have a membership on the Member Portal site and should use that to pay their dues if possible.

The street address you use on the Member Portal profile is for Journal delivery only, not the legal address of the club or the meeting location.

In order to claim an account there, you will need a unique email address that isn’t the same as any individual member.

Contact membership@cactusandsucculentsociety.org for assistance with membership and dues payment.


Updating Affiliate List Information

If you are the Affiliate Rep. for your Society, use this form to update your Society’s “Affiliate List” info.

This will include your President and Newsletter Editors contact info, other contact information, and event details.

Updating CSSA & Affiliate Events Calendar Listing

Note that the event calendar is updated separately by sending event info to the Calendar Coordinator, Laurel Woodley, at calendar@cactusandsucculentsociety.org.

The CSSA Affiliates Committee

The Affiliates Committee is responsible for communications between the CSSA and local clubs.

We strive to to assist the affiliate societies by promoting their local activities and providing information and resources to help them improve their operations.

Committee Members

Co-Chairs: John Martinez, MA Bjarkman
Members: Ann Hopkinson, Judith Goodrode, Art Scarpa, Kimberly Gomez-Tong

Contact

For general inquiries: affiliate@cactusandsucculentsociety.org

For Affiliate Clubs – questions and support: Your society’s appointed Affiliate Rep should have been assigned a contact on the committee. You should email them directly.

Meetings

The committee organizes an in-person breakout meeting for Affiliate Society Representatives at each biennial convention, and has begun organizing a zoom meeting during the intervening years.

The most recent Zoom meeting of the Affiliate Society Representatives was held on September 21, 2024 at 12:30pm (Pacific). For more information, click here.