Welcome to our new Vice President of Social Dance Ken Pandozzi. Ken was appointed by President Ken Richards and unanimously ratified by the Board of Directors. He has been active in USA Dance for close to 30 years beginning in Rhode Island and most recently as Chapter President of his local chapter in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Before becoming the VP of Social Dance he most recently served for several years as the District Director of District 5 helping chapter rebuild after the COVID pandemic. Over the next year he hopes to work with our Chapter Relations Director, Phil Sisk, to reorganize the structure of the Social Dance Division to provide more coordination and support for local chapter leaders. Please feel free to contact him at social-vp@usadance.org with your questions, concerns, ideas, and suggestions for how to improve Social Dancing in the United States.

The Social Dance Council is excited to announce the second Chapter Power Hour will focus on Money Matters with Treasurer Esther Freeman and Assistant Treasurer Karen Chaleki. These peer learning opportunities provide current and future chapter leaders with opportunities to share lessons learned by your chapter on what works and doesn’t work because our organization only becomes stronger when we all work together.

Money Matters: Chapter Finances

Saturday, March 2nd

2pm EST

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The agenda is as follows:

Greetings by National Treasurer, Esther Freeman

1. Meet your new Social Dance VP and welcome your Membership Director
2. The importance of reporting accurate and timely chapter board information
3. The importance of readable membership forms that accompany mailed checks
4. Why report the lesser amounts paid to service providers when the IRS requires $600 minimum
5. What is the benefit to the chapter to get a W-9 every year from all service providers? 
6. Why must I report 1099 information to National prior to January 30th and what about 1099s for rent and attorneys (as required by IRS)?
7. Where do we stand on state registrations and grants?
8. Use the memo line on the checks and save everyone time.
9. How NOT to deal with cash from dances
10. When can we expect the Membership rebate checks?
11. Who benefits from the new QBO program for chapter finances? 
12. How important is it to have the corporate treasurer on chapter bank accounts?

This is your meeting so any questions you may have please send them to

Karen, AssistantTreasurer@usadance.org, by February 29th .

Benefits Corner: Insurance - Boring, but Important!

With our digests, we’d like to take the time to remind you of various benefits of USA Dance membership. In prior months, we showed you how you could save the entire cost of your membership with PerkSpot, DSI London, Dance Vision.  This month we’ll talk about insurance.

At this moment, you’re asking yourself, “wait a second, USA Dance - why do I care about insurance?”.  Simple - it’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Though ballroom dance is one of the safest sports, wouldn’t you rather go to a social dance knowing that if something were to happen that you were covered? That’s what insurance is for.  USA Dance’s insurance benefits provide important coverage to all USA Dance members and organizers during USA Dance activities. This provides our members with important peace of mind that allows you to concentrate on what you do best - competing, coaching, hosting competitions, or serving the needs of dancers in your community!

USA Dance is happy to announce that we have renewed our music license with BMI for another year. This license provides coverage to all USA Dance events including Chapter Social Dances and Workshops. The license will be uploaded to the Chapter Admin portal on our website shortly for chapters to download when needed.

Did you miss a previous digest OR want to find something that was contained in them without searching your email history? Search no more - our National website now has all social dance digests at your fingertips https://usadance.org/page/SocialDigest

AMERICAN DANCER - Are you reading American Dancer? You should!

Read competition wrap up articles on The MAC & Atlanta DanceSport Cup, learn about our upcoming National elections, and get music ideas for your next Social Dance from the Tallahassee Chapter 6010.

https://americandancer.org/