NCAN provides member organizations with professional development, networking, benchmarking, tools, and news from the field so they can deliver postsecondary access and success services more effectively and to more students.
By joining NCAN, organizations and individuals can enjoy numerous member benefits, including:
Professional Development
- Regularly scheduled webinars feature important updates and highlight best practices from experienced NCAN members. Members may propose their own periodic webinars co-sponsored by
NCAN. Topics covered include:
- College access and success
- Data, research and evaluation
- Financial aid and financial literacy
- Policy and advocacy
- and more!
- Discounted pricing and group pricing at NCAN's national conference and regional events makes professional development more affordable. More than 1,000 individuals participate in the
national conference.
- Free access to on-demand professional development on popular topics through NCAN's new e-learning platform, Fundamentals for College Access & Success Professionals (up to 100
employees per member organization).
Communication and Education
- Success Digest, a members-only weekly email, distills the week's most important news for you into a quick five-minute read. It's perfect to keep staff and board members up to date in this world of overflowing inboxes. Make sure to send us your
current staff list so everyone in your organizations receives this valuable resource!
- NCAN's Online Practitioner Community, a members-only Slack channel to support and guide each other. The community currently focuses on all things FAFSA-related, but will expand to other topics in the near future. Subscribe here.
- Our blog features NCAN staff sharing their perspective on current college access and success "hot topics."
- NCAN publications support network growth and development.
- Practitioner tools: Members learn from our online content supporting FAFSA Completion, Policy & Advocacy, and
more.
- NCAN's Benchmarking Project: Member organizations can participate in NCAN's Benchmarking Project and help to demonstrate the impact that college access and success organizations
have on students' enrollment and completion outcomes.
Advocacy
- NCAN speaks out in Washington, D.C. for low-income students for policies to protect and improve financial aid, promote public-private partnerships for college access and success, and increase information available to students about their postsecondary
choices.
- We keep members informed about opportunities to educate their Congressional representatives on these vital policy issues and provide an action center to help members with their advocacy efforts.
- Members can participate in NCAN's Rapid Response Policy Team or use information for local advocacy purposes.
Discounted Services
- As an NCAN member you can post your organization’s job openings on NCAN’s Career Board for free. By posting through the Career Board, you'll reach a broader audience of potential
candidates in the college access and success field. You will also have the ability to manage the posting, including reposting after the initial application deadline expires.
Recognition and Connection
- Members get preference for competitive national conference workshop session proposals.
- NCAN shares member news, events, job postings, and hiring announcements in our electronic communications.
- Our Advisory Task Force allows for both members and nonmembers to engage with NCAN as we seek input to strengthen our membership services. The task force also helps us foster partnerships and connections across the postsecondary
pipeline from a range of individuals and programs engaged in college access and success work.
- NCAN regularly connects its members with journalists, researchers, funders, policymakers, and one another. This provides members the opportunity to share their work and expertise on statewide, regional, and national levels. Here are
some examples of news stories that have come from these connections:
- Members are eligible to receive NCAN's annual Awards of Excellence.
- Members can receive a "Member of" logo to display online or print. (Current NCAN members can obtain this logo via the "NCAN Members Only" page.)
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