Join MEEA: Memberships
MEEA helps educators teach people to care about, understand, and act for the resources on which human life, economies and societies depend. By joining MEEA you are connecting with others in Missouri who practice or care about environmental education. Your membership strengthens environmental education in Missouri and ensures you have the resources to carry out high quality environmental education.
Pay-What-You-Can Option
We want everyone who wants to learn about
and improve their environmental education practice to be part of our network. If cost is a barrier to participation, just select $0 or any other amount you’re able to donate, and join MEEA!
If the payment processor gives you trouble, simply email us at moylan@meea.org to start your membership. We’ve had trouble with credit card fraudsters trying out stolen card numbers and have had to employ new security measures. Thanks for bearing with us on that!
Levels of Professional and Organizational Membership and Benefits
We have the right membership for yourself, your school, or your organization.
Individual
- Single (1) Membership
- Monthly Newsletter
- Extra Updates Option
- Certification Eligible
- MEEA Award Eligible
- Board Service Eligible
- Eligible to Vote
- Member Discount to Conference
Nonprofit
Includes everything from the Individual Membership plus:
- One (1) Free MEEA Conference Registration
- Your Logo Listed on MEEA Website
- Listed in Annual Report (Anonymous Option for Individuals)
- Five Individuals in Your Organization Included as Members
Government / For Profit
Includes everything from the Individual Membership plus:
- One (1) Free MEEA Conference Registration
- Your Logo Listed on MEEA Website
- Listed in Annual Report (Anonymous Option for Individuals)
- Five Individuals in Your Organization Included as Members
Lifetime Membership
Everything from previous membership levels, plus:
- Lifetime Membership
- Invitations to Special Benefits
Lifetime members help MEEA build momentum while establishing new relationships secure long-term funding
| 1 – 5 Employees | $150 |
| 6 – 15 Employees | $250 |
| 16 – 25 Employees | $350 |
| 25+ Employees | $500 |
| Pay What You Can | Your Choice |
Number of employees determined by employees that benefit from MEEA, not by total organizational employees
| 1 – 5 Employees | $250 |
| 6 – 15 Employees | $500 |
| 16 – 25 Employees | $750 |
| 25+ Employees | $1000 |
| Pay What You Can† | Your Choice |
Number of employees determined by employees that benefit from MEEA, not by total organizational employees
† Only available to Governments
More about MEEA
MEEA is a professional membership organization for people who do environmental education and people who care about environmental education. Members include pre-school and classroom teachers, agency professionals, staff from non-profits that do environmental work and businesses with environmental products and services. MEEA has members in every region of the state.
MEEA publishes a monthly newsletter with seasonally appropriate environmental themes, grant deadlines, professional development opportunities, events, education resources that tie into the theme, EE jobs, and – most months – a specially produced MEEA EE resource.
MEEA awards eight $250 competitive grants to its Professional members every year. Projects range from bird cams in urban areas to life vests for river programs to seeds and tools for school garden programs.
MEEA organizes an annual conference for all educators to present and learn about innovative environmental education lessons, programs and techniques. The conference rotates around the state from St. Louis to Springfield to Kansas City to Columbia.
MEEA developed and makes available a set of Environmental Literacy Assessments for educators to use to plan lessons, assess learning or just for fun. There are 1200+ questions over ten topics at four grade bands. The questions can be downloaded as spreadsheets for studying, documents for creating your own quiz, accessed as online quizzes or printed out as Earth Quest, a game of environmental knowledge for all ages.
MEEA organizes a twice a year meeting for the Missouri Environmental Literacy Advisory Board, or MELAB. MELAB is a group of groups that tackles state-level environmental education projects. Its upcoming projects include creating a Missouri Green Schools program, marking out a pathway to environmental careers for students, and supporting the spread of gateway stewardship activities.
Why give to MEEA: What others have to say
Jill Hollowell Advocate
Cindy McManis
Paige Witek Non-formal educator with non-profit
Barbara J. Lucks MEEA founding member
Elizabeth Petersen Institute for School Partnerships at Washington University, Chair of the Education Committee at Audubon Center at Riverlands, and long time member of MEEA.
Jeff Cantrell Missouri Prairie Foundation/GROW NATIVE
Jeff Cantrell Technical advisor for MO Prairie Foundation and Board member of Missouri Birding Society
