Obesity | Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) Unveils New Membership Structure

TAMPA, Fla., Jan. 4, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — In an bid to enlarge its reach, the Obesity Action Coalition (OAC) has restructured its membership categories, right away gift a difficulty for people to come together — Individual Membership . Previously, the OAC moreover offered extra membership categories especially for professionals and physicians, that were accompanied with aloft membership dues. In evaluating this structure, the OAC established that segmenting the categories supposing no extra strength in our voice, as the OAC is about the particular affected by overweight and all who are anxious with the epidemic.

The OAC is unapproachable to right away offer a singular difficulty for people to come together for only $20/year — Individual Membership. The OAC still offers two categories for companies and organizations to come together — Institutional Membership and Chairman’s Council Membership . These categories enable companies/organizations to encouragement the OAC at a aloft turn with extra membership benefits. With Individual Membership, members can design to take the subsequent to benefits:

Official acquire e-mail and membership card

Annual subscription to the OAC’s authorized publication, Your Weight Matters Magazine

Subscriptions to the OAC Members Make a Difference and Obesity Action Alert monthly e-newsletters

“Bias Busters” Alerts, alerting especially to problems of weight disposition (NEW!)

Immediate Advocacy Alerts on obligatory advocacy problems and access to the OAC’s consultant advocacy team

Ability to lend your voice to the cause

Members who instruct to order the OAC’s informative resources in bulk are right away able to buy Educational Add-ons. You contingency be an Individual Member to be able to buy any of the informative extras packages. The make up is to OAC’s Educational Add-ons is as follows:

Standard Package: 10-50 informative pieces/quarter ($50/year)

Deluxe Package: 51-100 informative pieces/quarter ($100/year)

Premium Package: 100-250 informative pieces/quarter ($150/year)

Members who want to order OAC resources year-round and do not want to be paltry in conditions of amount are invited to come together possibly the Institutional or Chairman’s Council Membership level. Both categories give the benefits of unconstrained grouping of OAC resources.

All stream OAC members in the formerly Professional and Physician categories have been automatically transitioned to Individual Members. These members will be able to go on their membership benefits (ordering of OAC’s resources) beneath the aged make up until their membership is up for renewal. If you are a stream OAC associate and you have questions about how/if your membership might be impacted by this restructure, greatfully meeting Kristy Kuna, OAC Director of Membership, at (800) 717-3117 or kkuna@obesityaction.org .

The OAC is a National non-profit group dedicated to educating and advocating on interest of the millions of people affected by obesity. As a membership group of more than 33,000 people and companies/organizations, the OAC invites all who are impacted by overweight and anxious with the overweight widespread to come together the Coalition and let their voice be heard. For more information on OAC membership and come together today, greatfully revisit www.obesityaction.org or call (800) 717-3117.