Committees
In order to function more efficiently, the IABA has organized
4 committees: Communications Committee, Membership
Committee, Mentoring Committee,
and Finance Committee.
COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
Chair: Clarissa Simpson
Responsibilities:
- Maintain, update, and revise the website as appropriate
- Produce a quarterly communication to the membership
- Develop communications for outside parties
- Identify ways to make IABA and the profession more visible
- Create additional marketing material for IABA
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE
Chair: Michelle Thompson
Responsibilities:
- Increase number of dues paying members and subscribers
- Increase attendance at the annual meeting
- Manage database of potential membership
- Distribute new member kits
- Welcome each new member to the organization
- Identify ways to better serve our membership
- Create a policy for handling associate/subscriber members
- Establish regional interactions/meetings for IABA
MENTORING COMMITTEE
Chair: Pat Powell
Responsibilities:
- Establish mentor / mentoree relationships
- Establish connections for students taking the same exams
- Ensure that relationships are effective
- Develop measures of success
- Proactively seek collegians requiring mentoring
IABA FOUNDATION
Responsibilities:
- Raise funds for IABA (individual, corporate)
- Establish policy and pricing for Job postings
- Establish and maintain a process for scholarships
- Review and revise selection criteria
- Identify applicants
- Determine the recipients and amounts of each scholarship


