Create organizational_membership

_data/menus/get-involved.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
   items:
     - name: Join US-RSE
       link: join
+    - name: Organizational Membership
+      link: org-membership
     - name: Support US-RSE
       link: support
     - name: Get Involved

_data/navigation.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
   dropdown:
     - name: Join US-RSE
       link: join
+    - name: Organizational Membership
+      link: org-membership
     - name: Support US-RSE
       link: support
     - name: Get Involved

pages/get_involved/get_involved.md

@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ menubar_toc: true
 menubar: get-involved
 ---
 
-The US-RSE Association is a new organization that needs community involvement to grow and mature.  
+The US-RSE Association is a new organization that needs community involvement to grow and mature.
 
+We offer individual membership and we will soon start the pilot phase for organizational membership that will give organizations the opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE.
 
 {% include notification.html message="Most of our interaction is via Slack: usrse.slack.com.  You'll receive a link to join the Slack space when you [join US-RSE](https://us-rse.org/join/).  If you have already joined US-RSE but can't get into Slack, email [email protected] for help." %}
 

pages/get_involved/join.md

@@ -6,9 +6,13 @@ subtitle: Why should I join the US-RSE Association?
 menubar: get-involved
 ---
 
-Membership in the US-RSE Association is free.  Our email announcements and newsletters are sent to members.
+Individual membership in the US-RSE Association is free.
+We will offer [organizational membership](/org-membership) for a membership fee
+soon.
+Our email announcements and newsletters are sent to individual and
+organizational members. 
 
-By joining the US-RSE Association you will:
+By joining the US-RSE Association as an individual member you will:
 
 <ul>
 <li>Receive announcements of events organized by and for RSEs</li>
@@ -23,7 +27,7 @@ By joining the US-RSE Association you will:
 If you think that you might fit in US-RSE then you probably do and we look forward to welcoming you.</p>
 
 <div class="get-started-wrap" style="margin:auto">
-    <a class="btn btn-warning" href="https://forms.gle/CRsH7sKAk3UvZJfB9" target="_blank" style="margin:40px;">Join the US-RSE Association <em>for free</em>!</a>
+    <a class="btn btn-warning" href="https://forms.gle/CRsH7sKAk3UvZJfB9" target="_blank" style="margin:40px;">Join the US-RSE Association as an individual member<em> for free</em>!</a>
 </div>
 
 

pages/get_involved/organizational_membership.md

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+---
+layout: page
+title: Organizational Membership - Coming Soon!
+permalink: /org-membership/
+subtitle: Why should my organization become a member of US-RSE?
+menubar: get-involved
+menubar_toc: true
+---
+
+The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE)[^1] is the leading
+professional community of research software engineering practitioners in the
+United States.
+US-RSE's four-pronged mission aims to foster community, promote RSEs’ impact on
+research, provide useful resources, and encourage and improve diversity
+throughout the profession. US-RSE envisions a future where it plays an essential
+role in promoting RSEs to be universally respected for advancing science,
+technology, and society through the transformative power of research software
+engineering.
+The number of individual members of US-RSE has grown from about 20 in 2018 to
+over 2700 in 2024.
+
+{% include member-graph.html %}
+
+
+## Pilot Phase: Become an Organizational Founding Member
+
+On October 1, 2024, US-RSE will start the pilot phase of an organizational
+membership program, which will run through November 30, 2025.
+The pilot phase for organizational founding members will give organizations the
+opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE.
+Every organization joining on or before November 30, 2025 will be considered an
+organizational founding member.
+The annual membership fees (see Table 3) will remain the same for founding
+members until December 31, 2028.
+Organizations joining on or after December 1, 2025 are ineligible to become an
+organizational founding member.
+
+
+### Why support US-RSE?
+
+US-RSE offers a variety of services to its individual and organizational members.
+Examples include:
+
+- Our annual conference
+  - The [2023 inaugural conference](https://us-rse.org/usrse23/) was a
+    resounding success, selling out with 250 attendees.
+  - For [2024](https://us-rse.org/usrse24/) we aim for 300 participants.
+- [Monthly community calls](/events/#community-call)
+- [A monthly newsletter](/newsletters/)
+- 15 [working groups](/working-groups/) and [affinity groups](/about/affinity-groups/)
+- Multiple virtual seminars series. Examples include
+  - The [DEI speaker series](/wg/dei/)
+  - The [Education and Training speaker series](/wg/education_training/)
+- A heavily visited and successful [job board](/jobs/)
+- Creation of resources such as the
+  - [Career Guidebook](https://zenodo.org/records/8329337) in collaboration with
+    the Academic Data Science Alliance (over 100 pages)
+  - [Career Guide Brochure](https://zenodo.org/records/10073233) for RSEs in
+    collaboration with IEEE Computer Society (25 pages)
+
+
+By joining US-RSE as an organizational member, you will ensure the continuation
+and expansion of these offerings.
+
+
+### Organizational Membership Duration
+
+Organizational membership is defined per calendar year from January 1 to
+December 31.
+Organizations can join throughout the year with membership fees being reduced
+between August 1 and November 30 to 50% for the remainder of the year and
+reduced benefits as described below.
+Members joining on or after December 1 will be members the following year from
+January 1 with all benefits.
+
+
+### Benefits for Organizational Founding Members
+
+Organizational Founding Members will be recognized with their logo on the US-RSE
+website, on conference material, and in annual reports.
+Organizational members benefit from opportunities to help shape US-RSE’s
+activities and strategic initiatives via quarterly meetings with the US-RSE
+Leadership including the Executive Director (ED), Community Manager (CM) and a
+subset of the elected Steering Committee (SC).
+
+US-RSE’s organizational membership model has three tiers with different
+membership fees (see Table 3).
+As the second most visited page (after the homepage) on the website, the job
+board is highly successful, and Standard and Premier membership include
+highlighted job postings.
+Our annual conference is the flagship event for RSEs and allies in the United
+States, and Standard and Premier membership includes free registrations at the
+event (see Table 1 for the summary of benefits).
+
+Organizations joining before August 1 in coming years receive all benefits for
+that year.
+For Standard and Premier members this includes benefits for the annual
+conference in the current calendar year.
+Organizations joining on or after August 1 but before December 1 pay half of the
+membership fee for the calendar year, but for Standard and Premier level will
+not receive conference-related benefits and will only receive half as many
+highlighted posts on the job board.
+They will have all other benefits including the remaining quarterly meetings
+with the US-RSE leadership group (see Table 2 for the summary of benefits).
+Organizations joining on or after December 1 receive the membership for the
+following year.
+
+
+### Annual General Meeting and Annual Report
+
+US-RSE holds a virtual Annual General Meeting open to all individual and
+organizational members in December of each year.
+Organizational members will be acknowledged in the meeting.
+Organizational members will additionally  receive an annual end-of-the-year
+report, which includes a directory of all organizational members.
+
+
+### US-RSE Organizational Membership is inclusive
+
+US-RSE prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion through initiatives that
+cultivate a representative and inclusive RSE community.
+It aims at creating and maintaining a diverse workforce.
+The membership model is designed to give all interested organizations the
+possibility to become an organizational founding member if joining by
+December 1, 2025.
+Besides the benefits listed in Table 1 and Table 2, US-RSE provides the
+following opportunities:
+- Organizations can gift annual memberships to other organizations.[^2]
+- A 5-year membership can be purchased for the price of a 4-year membership.
+
+
+## How to join?
+
+If you would like to join, please contact our Executive Director,
+Sandra Gesing, at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
+
+|  | Basic | Standard | Premier |
+| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- |
+| Your organization’s logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Members have exclusive access to use a specific branded US-RSE logo for organizational members[^3] | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE leadership team | 1 person | 1 person | 2 persons |
+| Free attendees at annual US-RSE conference | \- | 1 person | 2 persons |
+| Highlighted positions in job board | \- | 2 per year | 4 per year |
+| A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter | \- | \- | 1 per year |
+| Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year[^4]  | 20 brochures/50 special member stickers  | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers  | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers  |
+| Discount of 20% for sponsorship at conference | \- | \- | ✓ |
+
+Table 1: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership
+model **for organizations joining between December 1 (year before) and July 31**.
+If an organization joins on or after December 1, the official membership starts
+on January 1 and lasts until December 31 of the following year.
+{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" }
+
+
+|  | Basic | Standard | Premier |
+| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- |
+| Your logo listed on the US-RSE website, end-of-the-year report and annual conference website | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
+| Quarterly members-only meetings with Executive Director and other representatives of the US-RSE Leadership | 1 person | 1 person | 2 persons |
+| Highlighted positions in job board | \- | 1 highlighted per year | 2 highlighted per year |
+| A spotlight of an organizational member or a representative of an organizational member posted to the website linked via the newsletter | \- | \- | 1 per year |
+| Members can request promotional US-RSE stickers and brochures once per year[^4]  | 20 brochures/50 special member stickers  | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers  | 100 brochures/200 special member stickers  |
+
+Table 2: The benefits of the three tiers of the US-RSE organizational membership
+model **for organizations joining between August 1 and November 30**.
+{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" }
+
+
+|  | Basic | Standard | Premier |
+| :---- | :---- | :---- | :---- |
+| Academic (R1 and R2), national labs, non-profits, small companies (1-20 employees), foundations  | $1000 per year | $2000 per year | $4000 per year |
+| Academic (Not R1 or R2) | $500 per year | $1000 per year | $2000 per year |
+| MSIs, HBCUs  | $500 per year | $1000 per year | $2000 per year |
+| Industry | Contact Executive Director[^5] | $5000 per year | $10000 per year |
+
+Table 3: Membership fees
+{: style="font-size: 0.7em; font-style: italic" }
+
+
+[^1]: US-RSE is a fiscally sponsored project by Community Initiatives. https://communityinitiatives.org/
+[^2]: Please contact the Executive Director for initiating the process
+[^3]: For example, “Founding Organizational Member 2024”
+[^4]: Please contact the Community Manager for US-RSE stickers and promotional material
+[^5]: The ED will talk with the company and summarize the reasons for the SC why
+    the company aims for basic membership. The SC will vote on it and a simple
+    majority is sufficient to allow the company to join, with the price to be
+    negotiated between the company and Executive Director.