Kansas State Council of ESA
The basic structure of ESA
| ESA Headquarters BJ Clark Executive Director of ESA  | The office for ESA Headquarters is located in Fort Collins, Colorado. The Executive Director of ESA is BJ Clark – ESA is now owned by the ESA Membership Corporation. It was sold to the membership of ESA by the ESA Service Corporation in 2008. A six member board was established to conduct the business of ESA. Each member of the Board will serve for a three year term on the board and serves without pay. Headquarters provides many services, merchandise, and leadership training for the membership. ESA International is registered as a 501 C 4 non-profit organization but it does have to register and submit tax facts forms to the government each year. Each chapter has to register its Tax Facts form each September and be a member in good standing in order to be classified as an official ESA chapter. |
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| ESA Foundation "Serving the World Community ... Because We Care" | This is the tax-exempt arm of ESA. It is a registered 501 C 3 non-profit Foundation established in 1971 for the purpose of supporting the philanthropic efforts of ESA. It motto is “ESA FOUNDATION: SERVING THE WORLD COMMUNITY BECAUSE WE CARE”. It has a Board of Director that is elected from its membership, which is primarily composed of ESA members. Board members conduct the Foundation’s business and serve without compensation for a three-year term. It is an independent organization that assists ESA by the Turn-Around-Funds for philanthropic projects. It has an outstanding Scholarship program, which (currently) gives 130 endowments for student education to students across the world but mainly in the United States. States and individuals are continuously donating and establishing new endowed scholarships each year. Everyone can join the ESA Foundation for a one-time $25.00 fee and $15 yearly dues thereafter. This money is tax exempt and considered a donation to the ESA Foundation. |
| International Council Of Epsilon Sigma Alpha International | The IC Executive Board is elected each year from the general population of the membership of ESA. This eleven member board transacts the business of ESA and put on the annual ESA Convention at selected sites throughout the United States. The IC President appoints a board of approximately 45 members to work the committees of the Board. These committees are: Administrative Assistants, Association of the Arts, Budget, Chaplain, Circle of Life coordinators, Collegiate Coordinators, Convention, Diana and Youth Awards, Disaster Fund, Easter Seal Coordinators, Membership, News bulletin Chairman, Nominating, Philanthropic, Special projects, State President's Chair, and Website Coordinators. |
| Multi-State Councils "MARC" SERC RMRC WSC | We have four multi state councils at this point in time. A multi-state Council is a group of states that have ESA State Councils that ban together and have a regional meeting once/twice a year. They each function differently and according to the desires of their membership. Some are purely social in nature. MARC = Midwest Area Regional Council SERC = South Eastern Regional Council RMRC = Rocky Mountain Regional Council WSC = Western States Council |
| STATE COUNCILS OF ESA | ESA has State Councils in approximately 34 states but there are members and chapters located in states where there are no councils. New York State has one chapter, as does North Dakota. There are members at large in many other states as well as our on-line chapter that has members from a mulitude of locations. State Councils elect their own officers and lead the chapters in their state. The State Council helps your chapter to function in the state where you reside. It elects its officers annually from the membership in Kansas. Any member in good standing and a member of a chapter can run for office in Kansas. It meets four times a year with the 4th meeting being the state convention. Some cities in Kansas (where there a number of chapters) have “City Councils” to organize chapter activities, but others just function in their “local” chapters. The word “INTERNATIONAL” means we have chapters in other parts of the world. At the present time we have the Australian State Council functioning. Going back in our history – you can find that ESA use to exist in many other countries but that has dwindled to just one other country at the present time. |
| STATE STRUCTURES WILL VARY DISTRICTS ZONES CITY COUNCILS CHAPTERS | Each state will form its structure according to its own needs. If the state is large enough it will divide into Districts or Zones. Some chapters that exist in cities will form city councils. |
Your lesson assignment: Answer the following questions. More than likely you can find the answers to these questions by looking in your chapter yearbook. If not there, you can go to www.esaintl.com (click on) International Council (click on) Officers.
If you can’t find the answer to these questions – ask your chapter officers to help you.