Application for Associate Membership in InterAction

This week, InterAction staff and various member organizations traversed Capitol Hill to educate staffers on funding trends for the International Affairs Budget (150 Account) and to distribute valuable resources to members of Congress, particularly the freshmen representatives, that will aid their understanding of a range of foreign assistance issues that are likely to emerge in the 112th Congre

InterAction's 990 Form for 2009.

Thank you Corinne for that wonderful introduction and thank you Karen Mulhauser, and to your entire team at the UN Association of the National Capital Area for hosting this important event. 

Andy Rice leaves all of us an important legacy. His commitment to the role youth play in development and efforts to shape the U.S. development community remain with us today.  

Although compliance with InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards is a self-regulatory process, it is an important mechanism for demonstrating the integrity and accountability of the NGO sector with donors, the public, and beneficiaries and also serves as a track record of members’ internal efforts to improve organizational accountability.

Information on joining the InterAction community - eligibility criteria, responsibilities of membership, dues information - and a membership application.  

Intended to ensure and strengthen public confidence in the integrity, quality, and effectiveness of member organizations and their programs, InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) were created when the overseas work of PVOs was dramatically increasing in scope and significance.

Although compliance with InterAction's Private Voluntary Organization (PVO) Standards is a self-regulatory process, it is an important mechanism for demonstrating the integrity and accountability of the NGO sector with donors, the public, and beneficiaries and also serves as a track record of members’ internal efforts to improve organizational accountability.

This is intended to be read with the PVO Standards promulgated by InterAction for its members; it provides elaboration on the intent and applications of the Standards on input from other relevant sources. The Standards are requirements for membership in InterAction; the Guidelines are recommendations from the Board, but are not requirements for membership.

Application for Membership in InterAction

This policy brief is part of a larger series in InterAction’s 2009 Foreign Assistance Briefing Book.

A brochure highlighting the work of InterAction's first 25 years. Visit http://www.interaction.org for the complete 2008 annual report.

In order to keep membership active with InterAction, members are required to pay dues annually. Membership dues represent approximately 25 percent of InterAction’s total operating budget. This document provides additional details on the importance of member dues and how they are calculated.