Business Affiliates
PSBA's Service Associate Members are a vast network of industry experts and vendors who provide products and services to school entities.
SAM membership in PSBA is available to eligible individuals and business firms offering consulting services, financial services and products to public schools and other PSBA membership.
What you get with your Service Associate Membership
MEMBER DIRECTORY
PSBA will produce an annual directory of all SAMs and provide it to chief school administrators, board secretaries, business managers and board presidents, free of charge.
ONE COMPLIMENTARY MAILING LIST PER YEAR
A new annual benefit of PSBA membership will be to receive one complimentary mailing list per calendar year for one name per district (board secretary, board president, superintendent, for example).
DIRECT LINK FROM PSBA'S WEB SITE
PSBA members will have direct access to your company through a hotlink from PSBA's Web site directory of school products and services to your company's Web site -- at no additional cost.
INCLUSION ON PSBA'S WEB SITE
Another benefit of Service Associate Membership is that all SAMs are listed on PSBA's Web site in a directory of services. Access is provided first to an alphabetical listing of service categories, then the user can choose a particular SAM's name to learn the address, phone number and contact person.
LOW MEMBER RATES
Member rates to purchase mailing lists for Pennsylvania school officials, attend PSBA workshops and purchase other publications (available to SAMs at a discount of 60% off regular fees).
REDUCED ADVERTISING RATES
A 10% discount on display advertising rates in the PSBA Bulletin, the only statewide educational organization magazine.
REDUCED EXHIBIT RATES
Your membership entitles you to receive information about exhibiting at the annual PASA-PSBA School Leadership Conference before other firms are invited to participate. And, you will receive reduced member booth rates equal to more than your SAM fee for the exhibit, which nearly 200 exhibitors and some 2,000 school officials attend in Hershey.
NEWSLETTER
A newsletter produced each year before the fall conference by PSBA for SAMs, giving information about your products and services. The Product Periscope is mailed to all school directors, chief school administrators, business managers and board secretaries in Pennsylvania. You may contribute articles on new products, the history of your firm, services provided to schools, etc.
FREE BOOKLET OF SCHOOLS
A free booklet listing all school districts, intermediate units, and vocational-technical school administrative offices and addresses.
School Leader News
A year's subscription to the premiere PSBA weekly publication -- School Leader News. Content includes coverage of national and state trends, updates on legal and insurance issues, legislative reports, and information on all issues in public education affecting schools, finances and curriculum.
PSBA Bulletin
Six issues of the PSBA Bulletin, the award-winning official professional magazine of the association. Featuring a forum of opinion and research on educational concerns, the bimonthly magazine reaches those people directly responsible for purchasing all goods and services used by Pennsylvania public schools.