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FAI Membership Agreement
The following Membership Agreement has been developed to articulate FAI’s expectations regarding the conduct of its members while participating in FAI activities or events. This policy applies to all FAI meeting-related events, including those sponsored by organizations other than FAI, but held in conjunction with FAI, FAI and region’s online groups, on public or private platforms like Chorus. FAI acknowledges the inability to manage member’s behaviors in settings not managed by FAI or its regions.
Folk Alliance International (FAI) is a global nonprofit that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and access. As emphatically as we welcome all people to our events and organization, and as intentionally as we facilitate participation of marginalized, disenfranchised, and underrepresented community members, we also reject all forms of racism, discrimination, and harassment.
Harassment, discrimination, or inappropriate activity will be formally addressed. Continued failure to uphold these standards may result in expulsion from membership without reimbursement, per bylaw Article 3 Section 12. FAI reserves the right to deny renewal of membership.
FAI Membership Agreement
As a voting or non-voting member of FAI,
I subscribe to and will further the purposes of FAI, which are to strengthen and advance organizational and individual initiatives in folk music through preservation, promotion, and presentation under the direction of FAI’s Strategic Plan.
I also agree to:
- conduct myself in a safe and respectful manner,
- abide by the published bylaws, values, and policies of the organization,
- uphold a safe, welcoming, and respectful environment for all — one that respects all national, geographic, cultural, ethnic, social, economic, gender, sexuality, orientation, mobility, and other forms of diversity, and
- refrain from and reject harassment and discrimination of any kind, pledging also to address this behavior as unacceptable when I witness it
Please report incidents to FAI staff by calling 816-221-3655 or emailing fai@folk.org.
Please read FAI’s Inter-Delegate Incident Management Policy to understand how FAI manages conflict between attendees during our conference.
