Eligibility Requirements for Affiliate Members
In considering an individual or enterprise for Affiliate Membership, the following categories or groups are those which the Board of Directors has preliminarily identified as likely to have a common interest with the Association:- Educators and educational institutions involved in training and educating in woodworking sciences and related fields, having educational facilities affiliations.
Any individual, firm or corporation engaging in training and/or educating within the wood sciences field; and in consulting and/or engineering to the wood products and related industries and meeting such additional membership eligibility requirements, if any, as are adopted from time to time by the Board of Directors, shall be eligible for Affiliate Membership.
Affiliate Members shall have all of the rights and privileges of Active Manufacturing Members except that they cannot vote, chair a committee/task force or hold office in the Association. Affiliate Members can participate in Association Committees. Affiliate Members are also eligible for Member discounts on booth rentals at the Association-sponsored International Woodworking Machinery and Furniture Supply Fair – USA and other association related events or programs.
