INDIVIDUAL - $35 for those from developed countries, $15 from developing countries or in financial duress Open to the public. You choose the rate that best describes your situation.
INSTITUTIONAL - Rate depends on number of employees. Open to the public. If your organization has up to 10 employees, then you pay $100. If it has 11-50, then $200. If more than 50, then $300.
STUDENT MEMBERS - $10/year Open to any registered student anywhere in the world. The student may hold this membership category for two consecutive years. Enjoys same benefits as general members but without receiving a printed membership package in the mail.
We have a unique structure and business model designed for our global task: we are completely global and virtual (and thus need almost no overhead to fund). We have volunteer and pay-by-project membership and staff (thus need no staff overhead)
We have a specific focus: to strengthen managers and communities so they can manage their heritage in an adaptive, learning way
Learning is a central pillar to our structure and focus which is why we conduct our own research and publishing. (See our seminal book, The Future Has Other Plans: Planning Holistically to Conserve Natural and Cultural Heritage)
WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE ARE PUP CONSORTIUM MEMBERS?
They strongly support the conservation of natural and cultural heritage, whether in small parks and museums in their home town or World Heritage Sites around the world.
They are dissatisfied with the way heritage is currently been managed: unimplemented plans, low levels of community participation, simplistic thinking, and inability to adapt quickly to a complex, changing world.
They are frustrated with money, time, and hope being wasted on highly technical management approaches that do not improve heritage conservation; they sense a broken system but aren’t necessarily sure how to fix it.
They appreciate out-of-the-box thinking for both the technical and social sides of management such as community development, public participation, dialogue, inclusion, power sharing, adaptive co-management, organizational learning, horizontal and holistic, integral organizations.
They support alternative approaches that draw on many fields and on real research rather than just sentimentality, intuition or flavor-of-the-month ideas.
COMMITMENTS OF PUP MEMBERS
Because there is so much to do and because no one on our staff has a salary, we envision an active membership, where all our members commit to three things:
Support and implement the PUP principles and values
Keep up to date with their annual contributions
Seek ways to help us further our cause of a more holistic approach to natural and cultural heritage management