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Affiliate Society Representative Checklist and Resources
Affiliate Society Representative Checklist
If you serve as the Affiliate Representative for your club, use this checklist to stay up to date and keep your society connected with CSSA:
- Renew your membership through the JoinIt Member Portal
- Update your Public-Facing Information using the online form so your club’s details are current on the CSSA website and map
- Share the CSSA Affiliate Supporting Membership Discount Code with your members to encourage individual CSSA memberships
- Participate in Affiliate Rep Meetings to stay informed and exchange ideas with other societies
- Send CSSA your club newsletter so we can stay in touch and share your news in To The Point
- Affiliate Representatives are responsible for receiving the Affiliate Ballot (typically distributed at the end of August) and ensuring their club’s board or members are consulted before submitting the vote.
Contact membership@cactusandsucculentsociety.org for assistance with membership and dues payment.
Affiliate Society Resources
🌵 CSSA Supporting Membership for Affiliate Club Members – NEW 🌱
CSSA is offering a special Supporting Membership for just $10/year — exclusively for members of active Affiliate Clubs! Enjoy access to the To The Point e-newsletter, monthly webinar updates, the CSSA Seed Depot, and more — all while supporting CSSA’s mission in conservation, research, and education.
Contact your club’s Affiliate Representative for your unique discount code to join today!
🌵 Plant-of-the-Month (POM) Resources Available – NEW 🌱
Great news for our Affiliate Societies: CSSA now offers downloadable descriptions of 35+ Plant-of-the-Month (POM) genera and other categories to support your club activities. More will be added soon!
👉 Check out the POM Guidelines (below) and download the new Plant Descriptions linked below.
🌵 Plant-of-the-Month Guidelines – NEW
FOR PROGRAM DIRECTORS – Looking to enhance your club meetings with engaging, educational activities? The Cactus and Succulent Society of America (CSSA) is thrilled to share a comprehensive guide for organizing Plant-of-the-Month (POM) activities!
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.
🌵 National Speaker List – NEW
FOR PROGRAM DIRECTORS AND PRESENTERS – We have started compiling a contact list of speakers available to give talks at your meetings.
If you’re a Speaker, please contact our office to be included on the list.
🌵 Partnering for Conservation and Research – NEW
The CSSA is proud to partner with our Affiliate Societies to advance the conservation and study of succulents and cacti worldwide.
Through our Affiliate Partnership Program, we co-fund meaningful conservation and research projects—combining resources, expertise, and passion to protect rare and endangered species, support habitat restoration, and expand scientific understanding.
If your club is interested in collaborating on a conservation or research initiative, we’d love to hear from you! Together, we can achieve more than any of us could alone.
📩 Contact us to discuss project ideas, funding opportunities, and how we can work together to make a lasting impact.
🌵Audiovisual Help for Meetings
For A/V Volunteers:
The San Francisco Society has created a Facebook Group for volunteers who handle audio, video, or Zoom during society meetings. It’s a place to ask questions, share tips, post tutorials, and exchange technical know-how with others.
Share Your Affiliate News
Have exciting updates or accomplishments to share?
We’d love to feature your society in our quarterly e-newsletter, To The Point.
Please send your news items or club newsletters to:
Linda Tamblyn, Editor of To The Point
The CSSA Will Publish your Event Info
Did you know the CSSA can share your events on our website calendar? Simply send your event details to our Calendar Coordinator at: calendar@cactusandsucculentsociety.org.
We are also happy to share your events on our social media. Just email a JPG and the description of the event to cactusandsucculentsociety@gmail.com.
Join as an Affiliate Society
If you run a cactus / succulent society (a not-for-profit membership based organization) that would like to be affiliated with the CSSA, contact us at membership@cactusandsucculentsociety.org
Affiliate Society Membership
$55/year†
A group membership for our affiliate societies in the US and around the world
- To the Point digital newsletter published quarterly as a PDF, and available exclusively in your member portal
- Cactus and Succulent Journal – Two copies of each issue of our quarterly print magazine for advanced hobbyists and specialists
- Access to purchase from our Seed Depot (where available)
- 12-month membership term with optional automatic re-billing
- Affiliate accounts should use the mailing address where you want the Journal delivered. Leave first name blank, Society name in the last name field, with “C/O Name” info in the ADDRESS 2 field.
- Our new system requires a unique email address for each account. If your Affiliate account uses the same email as an existing member, please email us for assistance.