Motivate & Celebrate: Using Membership Incentives to Strengthen Your PTA
Everyone loves a little extra motivation—and in a PTA membership campaign, incentives can be a fun, effective way to boost engagement and reach your goals. When used well, incentives create energy, highlight your mission, and show appreciation for those who choose to join. But it’s important to remember incentives support the campaign—they aren’t the heart…
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The Value of PTA Membership: More Than Just Joining
When people think of joining the PTA, they often imagine fundraising or planning events—but the truth is, PTA membership is so much more. It’s about connection, community, and creating real impact for all children. A Voice for Every Child At its core, PTA is an advocacy organization. When you join, you’re adding your voice to…
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Membership with Meaning: Meeting People Where They Are by Connecting to Their “Why”
One of the most powerful ways to grow your PTA is by recognizing that everyone has a different reason for joining—and that’s a good thing! Whether someone is passionate about policy change or just wants to help with the school carnival, their “why” is the key to making them feel seen, valued, and inspired to…
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Setting a 20% PTA Membership Growth Goal: A Realistic Way to Grow Stronger Together
Whether your PTA is large and well-established or just starting to rebuild, setting a membership growth goal of 20% is a powerful and realistic way to spark progress. Why 20%? A 20% growth goal is intentional—it meets PTAs where they are. For a smaller PTA, it might mean adding just a few new members. For…
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Why Membership Themes Matter for PTAs: Standing Out While Staying Connected
PTAs play a vital role in enhancing school communities, yet they often face a unique challenge – being seen as separate from the school itself. While collaboration with school staff is essential, PTAs also need to maintain their own identity to effectively advocate, fundraise, and engage families. One powerful way to do that? Membership themes. …
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Why PTA Requires Membership: Because It’s Powered by You
The Parent Teacher Association (PTA) is more than just a school-based group—it’s a member-driven nonprofit organization with a mission to make every child’s potential a reality through advocacy, family engagement, and community-building. And at every level—local, state, and national—membership is the foundation of how that work happens. What It Means to Be Member-Driven PTA operates as a…
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Keep Your PTA Connected: Update Your Officers and Membership Link in Givebacks
As we kick off a new school year, it’s essential to make sure your PTA is set up for success—and that starts with the basics: updating your officer information and confirming your membership join link in the Givebacks database. Why It Matters Keeping your PTA officer roster current in Givebacks ensures that your leaders receive important updates, state and…
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July Checklist for Councils Supporting Local PTAs
Ongoing Tasks Remind local PTAs to complete any end of year tasks in Givebacks. Please also use Givebacks to report your newly elected 2025-2026 officers. Offer support to local PTAs who may be struggling with any of the SOA requirements. Work with your region director to support any local PTAs with fewer than 25 members…
National PTA dues increase effective July 1, 2025
Overview During the 2024 National PTA Virtual Convention, the voting body approved a $1 increase in the National PTA dues rate as proposed by the National PTA Board of Directors. Effective July 1, 2025, the new National PTA dues portion will be $3.25 per member. This includes any membership sold for FY2026 before July 1,…
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Learn More About the Community Your PTA Serves
PTA represents parents, caregivers, educators and communities of all children, which enables us to best achieve PTA’s mission to make every child’s potential a reality. Our collective backgrounds, perspectives and ideas allow us to create the strongest future and direction for PTA. To more effectively serve ALL children and families, we need to understand who…