Benefits of Supporting Membership
OWAC Supporting Memberships are available to individuals, non-profits and companies with an interest in supporting California's outdoor media and OWAC's programs. Our goals are to expand public information on outdoor recreation and conservation, provide professional craft improvement, and increase recognition of outdoor writing as a specialized field among media and educational institutions.
OWAC's Supporting Members include manufacturers, distributors and retailers of outdoor gear like Coleman and Hobie Cat; regional and national lobbying organizations like the American Sportfishing Association and the California Waterfowl Association; media outlets like ESPNOutdoors and The Sportsman Channel; tour operators like The California Parks Companies and Seven Crown Resorts; PR/communications firms and destination marketing organizations. For a directory of OWAC's approximately 65 current Supporting Members, click here.
Benefits of Supporting Membership include:
- A spiral-bound copy of our Member Directory, including job titles, publication credits, specialties, and complete contact information for approximately 170 professional outdoor writers, photographers, editors, speakers and broadcasters, who reach a combined audience in the tens of millions.
- Listing in our online Supporting Members Directory, including a hot link to your web site.
- Subscription to our monthly electronic newsletter, OWAC News (sample issue).
- Free publication of press releases, event schedules, calls for submissions, job opportunities, and story ideas in OWAC News.
- Attendance for a nominal fee ($80 for your first representative and $160 for each additional) at three-day conferences in spring and fall, including a display at the Marketplace mini-trade show, lodging and meals, and numerous opportunities to network with members during receptions, meals, and a wide range of scheduled outdoor activities.
- Opportunity to host or sponsor part of an OWAC conference.
- Assistance in planning small-scale press trips for targeted members to showcase your destination, product, message or service.
- For manufacturers, opportunity to put your products in the hands of members through "press" or "pro-staff" deals.
Annual dues for Supporting Membership are just $100. New supporting members joining any time between Jan. 1 and the spring conference pay $100. Those joining between the spring and fall conferences pay $65 for the remainder of the calendar year, and those joining after the fall conference pay $40. For more information, contact Executive Director Yvonne Graham at owac.director@gmail.com or (951) 245-2312.