NWCHP membership

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NWCHP Membership

Anyone who works or is interested in the hi-tech related areas and abides by the organization’s Articles and Bylaws has the right to become a member by paying his/her membership dues. Please note that NWCHP is open to any nationality and ethnic groups, it strives to achieve a broad alliance in this region. Hi-Tech related areas are defined as industries such as computer software, hardware, internet and web tech, telecommunication, biotech, medical science, aviation, modern mechanical and electrical science and so on. Professional service industries such as law, finance and consulting are also included.

Membership benefits will include:

People net-working opportunities
Technical/commercial information exchange opportunity: Participation in themed forums/seminars
Access to information about CHP community: newsletter, job search and career advancement
Personal financial discussion/advices
Enhanced ties with Greater China

Membership enrollment

Family membership: $30/year
Individual membership: $20/year
Student membership: $5/year
Checks should be made payable to: NWCHP

you can register online (membership due can be paid later), or fill in the form and send it with your check to our mailing address.

Our mailing address is:
NWCHP
4621 88th Avenue SE
Mercer Island, WA 98040

Can't make up your mind? You can join our open forum at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/nwchpforum/ first! It's free and opened to everybody.

If you have any questions, please contact nwchp@nwchp.org.

Q&As about NWCHP

1. Is NWCHP for profit?
No. NWCHP is a nonprofit organization incorporated in the State of Washington. All proceeds from membership dues, event charges will be used to cover organization related costs such as conference room rent, foods, beverages, promotional materials and operational expenses.

2. How is NWCHP different from other associations?
NWCHP sets itself apart by several of its unique features:
a. Mission to encourage entrepreneurship and assist startup ventures
b. Openness in both membership (open to all ethnic groups) and structure (members can take creative initiatives to satisfy their own individual needs.
c. Broad alliance with mainstream technical and financial communities;

3. Is the organization only for mainland or Taiwanese Chinese?
No. EVERYBODY can join NWCHP.

4. What do you mean by Hi-Tech?
Generally hi-tech mean the following industries: computer software, hardware, Internet related technology, telecommunication, biotech and medical science, advanced mechanics and fundamental science.

5. Can I become a member if I am not in the hi-tech field?
Yes. For financial, legal and consulting professionals, they are inseparably associated with hi-tech, therefore, they are a natural part of our association. Even you work in the traditional technology fields, if you are interested in learning about what’s happening in the hi-tech fields, you can also become a member.

6. What do you mean by Special Interest Group (SIGs) and why they are important?
As our members have a diverse background and interests, only a few activities may not be able to satisfy everyone’s requirements. A SIG is group organized around a special interest, either professional, financial or social, such as a bio-technical group, a stock investment group, or a single’s group. A SIG can have its own sub-organizational structure and group leaders, hold its own events and meetings. SIG would give our members maximum room for creativity and contribution to the association. Only when we have many different SIGs built on NWCHP’s platform, can we truly fulfill our missions. All SIG’s activities should be posted on our website so that other members would be able to see what’s happening in other parts of our association.

7. What is an Advisory Board and why do we need such a Board?
Our Advisory Board members consist of people with high social and professional achievements. By inviting them to our Board, we have not only gained the recognition from these people, but also gained the resources associated with them. More importantly, they can provide our association with valuable advices and directions. They are also a good source for seminar speaker candidates.

8. How is Board of Directors created?
The first board is created via voting among our founding members. Founding members are defined as those people who actively participated in the initial activities during the inception period. The first board will serve a period of 6 months only, followed by a new election based on a larger membership base.

9. Can I become a board member or officer?
There are a number of criteria to be satisfied before one can become a board member or officer. A board member/officer should first of all be willing to devote substantial of his/her time to the activities of the organization. Secondly, a board member/officer should be able to bring to the organization with valuable resources and operational experiences. Actually, a board member is NOT decided by the board itself. A board member should be elected by members. As far as an officer is concerned, the president is appointed by the board while the vice presidents and the treasurer are nominated by the president and approved by the board. Other officers may be appointed by the president via consultation with other vice presidents.

10. Can I volunteer?
Of course. As a nonprofit organization, all of its operations are run on the basis of volunteerism. We encourage and welcome more and more people to join us volunteering on one or more of the functions that we have. If you are interested to volunteer your time with us, please contact us at nwchp@nwchp.org and let us know on which aspect you can help us with. Or you can go to our website, check membership page.

11. As a member, how could I know where membership dues are spent?
As stipulated by law, we need to report our accounting activities to the board and file with IRS annually. In the annual report, all income from membership dues, event charges and other proceeds, as well as all the operating expenses will be listed and explained. We will adopt accounting bylaws as our guidelines for everyone in the organization to follow, and we will adopt financial control procedures to control abuse of funds.

12. What kind of events do we have in a year?

We will have basically these types of events.

Professional Seminars: on technical, financial and management issues such as technology concept, new products, market analysis and marketing, recruitment and team building skills;
Social events: such as hiking, camping, festival celebration and other cultural events;
Entrepreneur Forum: people with dreams to startup their own ventures would gather together to discuss their business plans and refine their business models; also
Special events: such as organizing tours to China;

13. How can I sign up?

Please use our online membership form (click here), you can email it right away.
or just email your information to nwchp@nwchp.org

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