Tools for Chapter Officers
Please find a selection of links below to assist you with your chapter work. If you have questions or need any assistance finding something please contact us.
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Tools for Chapter Presidents
Find Policies and Procedures, job descriptions and more documents in Document Downloads and select the Policies and Procedures category.
Find the Chapter President job description in Document Downloads, select the Section 2 – Jobs category and type president on the search box next to categories.
Please visit the Chapter Map to ensure that your chapter’s listing is accurate. If any changes are needed please use the form on the link below.
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Tools for Chapter Membership Chairs
Frequently Asked Questions: Changes to EGA Membership Dues in 2024
Instructions: Step-by-Step: How to Renew Your EGA Membership Online
Instructions: Step-by-Step: How to Join an EGA Chapter
February 1 Email: Sent to Chapter Membership Chairs
February 1 Email: Sent to Members
Find Membership Forms in Document Downloads and select the Membership Forms category.
Find the Membership Chair job description in Document Downloads, select the Section 2 – Jobs category and type membership on the search box next to categories.
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Tools for Chapter Treasurers
Submit the Annual Financial Report Online
Dues News: Changes to EGA Membership Dues in 2024 and Frequently Asked Questions
Find the Chapter treasurer job description in Document Downloads, select the Section 2 – Jobs category and type treasurer on the search box next to categories.
Find financial documents including the Chapter and Region Financial Guidelines, the IC Payment Reporting Form, reimbursement forms and more in Document Downloads and select the Financial category.
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Tools for Chapter Education
Find the Chapter Education Chair job description in Document Downloads, select the Section 2 – Jobs category and type education on the search box next to categories.
Member Publications: Includes documents from the Guideline Series, the Technique Basic Series, Free projects from the website and more!
Petite Projects: Over 60 projects for members to stitch!
Slideshows & Presentations: A growing collection of slides and presentations that can be used by chapters and regions for educational purposes.
EGA Stitch-a-long: Join our EGA Stitch-a-long on Facebook and stitch a different project every month!
Needlework Network Newsletter: A monthly newsletter for stitchers! This monthly newsletter started as a promotional tool for non-members and members loved it, so we opened it for anyone to receive it in their inbox.
The EGA blog: Weekly news about EGA’s education, embroidery events, needlework tutorials, member spotlights and more! Members can subscribe to the blog here.
Group Correspondence Courses: Group Correspondence Courses (GCCs) offer low cost, high quality learning experiences for groups of up to 20 participants plus their group coordinator.
Individual Correspondence Courses: Individual Correspondence Courses offer EGA members intense, personalized study under the supervision of teachers selected for their outstanding needlework skills and knowledge.
GCC Lightning Rounds: Our GCC Lightning Rounds are a selection of our Group Correspondence Courses that have been hand-picked by our Education Department and made available for individual EGA members to register without a group for a limited time.
Online Studio: Online Studio classes take place on EGA’s website and in an environment where the student can read, review and download lessons, discuss with other students, and ask questions directly to the teacher on the discussion forum for each class.
Virtual Lectures: Once a month, a guest lecturer will speak to us about culturally diverse embroidery techniques and textile traditions over Zoom.
Master Craftsman: Our Master Craftsman programs are designed to promote excellence in embroidery by providing the accomplished needleworker the opportunity to demonstrate skills and become certified as a “master” in her or his area of expertise.
Certifications: Whether you’re looking to become a teacher, a judge, or an appraiser, EGA can make sure you have the tools and skills to pass our rigorous certification process.
Technical Excellence: EGA’s Technical Excellence Programs are designed to recognize excellence in the execution of hand embroidery. These programs give the experienced needleworker the opportunity to demonstrate excellence in their area of expertise. Our first available program is the Technical Excellence Program in Counted Thread.
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Tools for Marketing
Find marketing documents including EGA Brand Standards, EGA logos, brochures, region and chapter website guidelines and more in the Marketing Page.
Use our EGA brochure to help promote EGA and your chapter!
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Tools for Events
The most current list of events can be found in our Events page.
You may submit a new event through our Submit Your Event page here.
If you need a certificate of insurance for your event or exhibition, this can be found in Document Downloads under the Insurance category. Once filled, you may submit it directly to the Insurance Company in the form to receive your certificate.
The Region Seminar Guidelines can be found in Document Downloads under the Guidelines: Region Seminar category.
The National Seminar Guidelines can be found in Document Downloads under the Guidelines: National Seminar category.
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Creating a Chapter Website
On March 23, 2024 we had a Growing Your Chapter webinar focused on helping chapters create a website. You may watch the webinar below. Documentation, templates and more can be found below the video.
To access the templates, documentation, and more, do the following:
1) Make sure you are logged out of all Google (AKA Gmail) accounts in your browser. You can do this from https://www.google.com/ and using the circle-shaped icon in the upper right corner. Mine had a J on it today.
2) Log into the account you want to use the templates with, although you can certainly add this to any of your Google (AKA Gmail) accounts.
3) Once you are logged into your account, click this link: https://bit.ly/474Zwiw
4) You should now see these folders and documents:
Folders: Hoop Logos (a program that can work with Photoshop documents is needed for these), Documentation (open this for detailed directions—you can print/download any or all of them), and EGA Logo
Documents: Region and Chapter Website Checklist (download and print this one and have it at hand for reference), EGA Template v3, and EGA Template v4_Join. The only difference between the last two is that the Join template has an additional page added about how to join (and renew) EGA membership.
Remember, these are in the Shared with me folder. To use one of the templates, you will need to right-click one of them and select Copy. After a few seconds, the copy will have been made. So where is it? Click on My Drive on the left side of the screen.
We did leave Reggie’s EGA website up so you could revisit what was done on the webinar: https://sites.google.com/view/reggiesega/
The BunnyStitchers EGA website is the demo site where you can see how different things might work: https://www.bunnystitchersega.org/
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Growing Your Chapter Webinars
This is a series of webinars on strategies for increasing membership in your chapter. You may see all our Growing Your Chapter webinars so far on our YouTube Channel.