Your UNA-USA Membership is waiting! Read this guide for everything you may be asking about becoming a part of the UNA-USA community.
Here you’ll find answers to some frequently asked questions about UNA-USA membership—from who we are, what you gain by becoming a member, and how to navigate the membership process. If your question is specific to your local community, contact the Chapter Leader at your nearest UNA-USA Chapter.
The United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) is a membership organization dedicated to inform, inspire, and mobilize the American people to support the ideals and vital work of the United Nations. UNA-USA works to accomplish its mission through a network of Chapters, youth engagement, advocacy efforts, education, and public events.
While we support the vital work of the United Nations, UNA-USA is not part of the UN or the UN system. We are a campaign of the United Nations Foundation.
First, you must become a UNA-USA member before you can begin the process of starting a new chapter. Visit our Start a Chapter page to learn more about the requirements and process.
UNA-USA offers affinity groups for members to focus on specific issues through the lens of UNA-USA. You can select an affinity group when joining or renewing your membership or via the affinity group’s webpage. For more information on the affinity groups, please visit http://unausa.org/membership. UNA-USA offers the following:
The benefits of UNA-USA membership include:
Please provide a copy of your latest membership payment confirmation e-mail to your UNFCU representative.
Learn more about the UNA-USA benefits with UNFCU.
UNA local community and campus chapters have events throughout the year across the country. The two main nationwide events hosted each year by the UNA-USA National Office are Global Engagement Summit at the UN in February and the Leadership Summit in June.
UNA-USA membership is for people who are committed to advocating to U.S. congressional representatives and officials regarding the importance of the United States’ involvement in the United Nations. UNA-USA members must be U.S. residents or citizens with a United States address.
UNA membership is offered at the following levels:
Youth membership is free for those who are 25 years of age and younger. Youth members are typically part of a chapter on their campus, but are also encouraged to select a local community chapter as well. Throughout the year, youth members are given access to opportunities for young Americans through UNA-USA and other organizations.
It is offered for individuals 25 years and younger. You must sign up online and provide your name, email, address, and date of birth in order to qualify.
You can pay for UNA-USA Membership by signing up online.
If paying for membership by cash or check, please mail it along with the membership form to:
BWF/UNA-USA
PO Box 96397
Washington, DC 20090-6397
For free youth members, membership expires once you turn 26. After that time, you must renew as a paid member. Otherwise, membership expires the next year at the end of the quarter in which it was last obtained/renewed (e.g. Membership starting on April 10, 2017 will expire on June 20, 2018).
Our membership forms now allow for automatic renewals. If you chose this option, you will be charged on the same date each year.
Yes! Members who have no local chapter, or wish not to be affiliated with one, can indicate “Member-at-Large” when they join. You will still receive all the information sent to other members from the national office.
Only students who also have free youth membership can be part of more than one chapter – one campus chapter and one community chapter. Paid members can only be part of one chapter.
There is only individual membership. Our suggestion would be to identify one person in your organization to have UNA-USA membership so that you can be keep in the loop about what UNA-USA is doing nationally and locally!
Our website is designed to have security measures in place to prevent fraud. Transactions can be declined for a number of reasons, the reason your card was rejected will be highlighted in red. If your transaction fails, there will be a hold charge placed on your account. This charge should disappear in 5-10 business days. If you run into an issue with your credit card, please contact membership@unausa.org.
If you registered or renewed online, you should receive an e-mail receipt to the e-mail that you provided upon registration. The e-mail is the only confirmation sent to a member.
If you registered or renewed by sending a check, please wait 6-8 weeks for the check to be processed.
Please avoid clicking the submission button multiple times as it can lead to multiple submissions. If your transaction fails there will be a hold charge placed on your account. This charge should disappear in 5-10 business days. If your hold charges do not disappear after this time please e-mail membership@unausa.org. Please note, we cannot refund hold charges as those are funds that have been rejected by our payment system and thus not received by UNA-USA. We can only refund charges received by UNA-USA.
You may have received this notice if you renewed your membership after our mailing list was generated, or you may have signed up in the past under a different email or address, creating a separate account. If you are concerned that we did not receive your renewal or wish to check if we have multiple accounts for you, please email membership@unausa.org.
