Membership

Citizen Advocacy Center is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization dedicated to supporting public members serving on healthcare regulatory and oversight boards.Membership includes a subscription to our newsletter for all of your board members and all of your staff, as well as many other benefits. But if you decide not to become a member, we encourage you to subscribe to our newsletter without becoming a member.

We provide the following services to member organizations:

  1. Free copies of our quarterly newsletter CAC News & Views, as well as free copies of all CAC publications that are available to download from our website for all of your board members and all of your staff;
  2. A 10% discount for CAC meetings, including our fall annual meeting, for all of your board members and all of your staff;
  3. A $20.00 discount for CAC webinars;
  4. If requested, a free review of your boards website in terms of its consumer-friendliness, with suggestions for improvements;
  5. Discounted rates for CACs on-site training of your board on how to most effectively utilize your public members, and on how to connect with citizen and community groups to obtain their inputon your board rule-making and other activities;
  6. Assistance in identifying qualified individuals for service as public members.

A list of 2019 member organizations is at Member Organizations.

If your board or agency is ready to become a member of CAC for 2019, please complete this application and return it to us by mail,fax, or as an email attachment.

We have set the annual membership fees as follows:

Individual State Regulatory Board

$325.00

"Umbrella Governmental Agency plus State Regulatory Boards$325.00 for the umbrella agency, plus $275.00 for each participating board
Non-Governmental organization

$425.00

Association of regulatory agencies or organizations

$500.00

Consumeradvocates and other individualsnot affiliated with a healthcare organization or agency

$100.00