Why Join NAPO?
NAPO is the premier organizing authority. Membership provides the professional organizer a level of credibility available nowhere else in the industry. The NAPO logo on your business card or website tells your clients you are part of a recognized and reliable association whose members adhere to a code of ethics. You will receive abundant opportunities for professional growth through educational events, volunteer and community outreach programs, and industry leadership positions.
Even organizers who run part-time businesses can benefit from NAPO membership. Although professional organizing may be only a part of what you do, joining NAPO is a great way to enhance your organizing skills and gain new areas of expertise.
Professional organizers can join NAPO through one of four types of Individual Memberships: Industry Member - Provisional, Industry Member, Employee of Industry Member or Emeritus Member.
In what specific ways will becoming a member help my business?
For starters, your NAPO membership will allow you to:
- Gain discounted access to educational and networking opportunities, such as our annual conference or the professional-organizer curriculum.
- Be part of NAPO’s Professional Organizer Directory and receive inquiries from prospective clients.
What opportunities will I have for professional growth?
- You will be able to increase your organizing know-how and business savvy at conferences, meetings, and seminars, often at a reduced price.
- You will gain insight, experience, and knowledge through interaction with other NAPO members.
- You will receive our bimonthly newsletter, NAPO News, and monthly e-News Blasts, plus have access to the members only section of our website. These communication tools will keep you up-to-date on industry tips, organizing resources, and other information you can really use.
Can a Company that Sells Organizing Products Join NAPO?
Companies engaged primarily in the manufacture, distribution, and/or sales of organizational equipment, supplies, or organizing-industry-related services may join NAPO as Corporate Associate Members. Benefits include a listing on the Industry Exchange (NAPO’s enhanced online Corporate Associate Member/Partner Directory) and a discount on exhibitor space at our Annual Conference and Organizing Exposition. (Click on “Member Types” at right for more information.)
What do NAPO members say about NAPO?
“An organizer far, far away just sent me pictures of my client's stuff.
Heart-warming, make-my-day kind of thing. Because it was me who found the far away organizer to unpack, settle in, and *value-added,* include a designer's touch for my treasured client.
I don't do much job-applicant interviewing, and interviewing other P.O.'s was not where I'd have expected to start. It was also slightly uncomfortable for me.
Great pay-off for leaving my comfort zone, though. The P.O. who got the account used a story about this design strength of hers to talk her way in. She beat out others who I think were more experienced--and there's a lesson there about the power of confidence in yourself.
My workers and I had sorted, culled, project-managed ("Mr. Client, your next step is to go buy that real estate near your son . . . "), packed, and generally downsized for the client, and I'm proud of our work. But much though I love to pat myself on the back, I can really only send up a hallelujah for the fact that--not through a multi-national conglomerate or a bureaucratic "big player on Wall Street," but through an organization of independent folks much like me, which I cough up a mere $200 a year to belong to--I could get names and contact info of people to impress the socks off my client.
Hallelujah. Amen.”
—Jane Campbell, PhD, CPO®, Back In Sorts Organizing Systems, Member since 2001
“Belonging to NAPO has changed my life and contributed greatly to my success as a professional organizer. It is the #1 best investment that I continue to make in my business and in myself year after year. I am proud to be a leader of such a cutting-edge, well-respected, and rapidly growing association.”
—Barry J. Izsak, Arranging It All, 2003–2007 NAPO President, Member since 1996
“The opportunity to connect with other professionals from around the country and the world has directly impacted my bottom line. I can trace some of my longest-term and most lucrative business engagements back to contacts I initially made through NAPO.”
—Stephanie Denton, Denton & Company, 2003–2007 NAPO Past President, Member since 1994
“NAPO has been the anchor for me in starting and operating my business. I can’t imagine succeeding without NAPO support. NAPO has been able to weave all of the different facets of organizing under one umbrella that is so flexible that it meets the needs of each PO and recognizes the value of each type of organizing service.”
—Sandy Stelter, Strategic Organizing Solutions, 2006–2008 NAPO Secretary, Member since 1994
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