How We Can Help Your Club
USOF provides assistance to its member clubs in many ways.
Starting an Orienteering Club
We can help new clubs get started with advice about how to
plan your first event and setting up programs for young orienteers
(Little Troll Program). The documents below should help you with
your new club.
Why Form an Orienteering Club?
Description of an Orienteering Event
Planning Your First Event
In addition, if you want to charter your club with USOF, you
will need one of the following forms:
Regular Club Charter Application: html | pdf
(for clubs with 8 or more members)
Associate Club Charter Application: html | pdf
(for clubs with fewer than 8 members)
Annual Club Recharter information
USOF Promotional Brochure
The USOF promotional brochure is a short, concise explanation
of our sport, ideal for distribution to new and prospective orienteers.
It includes a space for your club to add a label or stamp with
local contact information. Ordering information
Also see the IOF's Review of Research into the Ecological Impact of Orienteering (pdf, 510 kb), published in 2005. Other environmental impact documents.
Tax Exempt Information
Information for Tax Exempt Organizations
- IRS publication
Competitive Expertise
Member clubs can call on various committees for advice on
almost all aspects of orienteering. The documents below should
help you with your competition, from local meets to A-meets.
Insurance Certificate: If a park requires proof of insurance coverage, clubs must apply for a certificate at least a month in advance from our insurance carrier. Chartered clubs can use the application form available through this website (or contact the webmaster for a form).
Local Meets
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Electronic Punching
"Electronic punching (e-punching or EP) is a faster, better way to record your visit to each control on an orienteering course. Instead of carrying a paper card and punching it at each control location, you wear a plastic e-card, or 'finger stick,' which contains a microchip. At each control site, you insert the finger stick into a control unit, which records the control number and time onto the microchip.
"When you finish the course, you download the data at a transfer station, and receive an instant printout of your time and splits. Even better, you can view compiled printouts that show everyone's splits for the course, so you can see where you gained or lost time."
Description courtesy of BAOC
Program Development
USOF can help your club develop recreational and promotional
programs. To take advantage of these services, contact your regional
Club Development Director.
Regional Club Development Directors
Heartland - Ian Harding, 651-779-6143
Mid-Atlantic - Mary Frank
(director), 610-792-0502
Midwest - Pat Meehan, 513-868-7535
Northeast - Barb Sleight,
315-458-6406
Northwest - Mike Schuh, 206-783-3960
Pacific - Bruce
Wolfe, 510-428-0701
Southeast - Jim Hall,
828-479-4356
Southwest - Miki Snell, 214-369-1823
Next
Board Meeting — June 26, 2009 at PNWOF A-meet, prior to the 2009 Annual General Meeting (AGM date is June 27)
Summary of the March 2009 meeting - new
Summary of the January 2009 meeting
All Board meeting minutes
Summary of August 2008 meetings (pre- and post-AGM)
Minutes of 2008 Annual General Meeting
- A-meet Planning Documents —
- Obtaining Sanctioning
- Sanctioning Package
- Suggested Checklist
- Sanctioning Fees computation form
- Competition Awards guidelines
- Course Setting and Vetting guidelines
- Sample Search and Rescue plan
- Guidelines for Trail Orienteering Championships
- Forms —
- Membership
- Insurance Certificate requests
- Links to A-meet and Club Chartering forms
- USOF Rules
- Board meeting minutes and summaries
- Administrative Documents —
- Treasurer's Reports
- Fund Budgets
- Regional Election Guidelines
- Summary of Insurance Coverage
- Endowment Fund documents
- Annual General Meeting —
- Fund Policies —
- Operating Fund
- Competition Awards Fund
- E-Punch Fund
- Funds on Endowment
- Insurance Fund
- Junior Team Fund
- Map Funds
- Program Development Fund
- Ski-O Team Fund
- Sponsorship & Marketing Fund
- Team Fund
- Trail-O Team Fund
- Administrative Policies —
- E-mail Voting
- Conventions
- Coordinators
- Land Use
- Life Memberships
- USOF Calendar listings
- Sponsorships
- Volunteer Dismissal
- History and Competition, including —
- History of Orienteering in the United States
- USOF Presidents, past and present
- USOF Champions (Individual, Relay, Intercollegiate, Interscholastic)
- Silva Service Award winners
- Board Documents, including —
- Meeting information
- Position Descriptions
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