Create organizational_membership

_data/menus/get-involved.yml

@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
   items:
     - name: Join US-RSE
       link: join
+    - name: Organizational Membership
+      limk: org-membership
     - name: Support US-RSE
       link: support
     - name: Get Involved

_data/navigation.yml

@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@
   dropdown:
     - name: Join US-RSE
       link: join
+    - name: Organizational Membership
+      limk: org-membership
     - name: Support US-RSE
       link: support
     - name: Get Involved

pages/get_involved/get_involved.md

@@ -7,8 +7,9 @@ menubar_toc: true
 menubar: get-involved
 ---
 
-The US-RSE Association is a new organization that needs community involvement to grow and mature.  
+The US-RSE Association is a new organization that needs community involvement to grow and mature. 
 
+We offer individual membership and we will soon start the pilot phase for organizational membership that will give organizations the opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE.
 
 {% include notification.html message="Most of our interaction is via Slack: usrse.slack.com.  You'll receive a link to join the Slack space when you [join US-RSE](https://us-rse.org/join/).  If you have already joined US-RSE but can't get into Slack, email [email protected] for help." %}
 

pages/get_involved/join.md

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ subtitle: Why should I join the US-RSE Association?
 menubar: get-involved
 ---
 
-Membership in the US-RSE Association is free.  Our email announcements and newsletters are sent to members.
+Individual membership in the US-RSE Association is free. We will offer [organizational membership](https://us-rse.org/org-membership) for a membership fee soon. Our email announcements and newsletters are sent to individual and organizational members. 
 
-By joining the US-RSE Association you will:
+By joining the US-RSE Association as an individual member you will:
 
 <ul>
 <li>Receive announcements of events organized by and for RSEs</li>
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ By joining the US-RSE Association you will:
 If you think that you might fit in US-RSE then you probably do and we look forward to welcoming you.</p>
 
 <div class="get-started-wrap" style="margin:auto">
-    <a class="btn btn-warning" href="https://forms.gle/CRsH7sKAk3UvZJfB9" target="_blank" style="margin:40px;">Join the US-RSE Association <em>for free</em>!</a>
+    <a class="btn btn-warning" href="https://forms.gle/CRsH7sKAk3UvZJfB9" target="_blank" style="margin:40px;">Join the US-RSE Association as an individual member<em> for free</em>!</a>
 </div>
 
 

pages/get_involved/organizational_membership.md

@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+---
+layout: page
+title: Organizational Membership - Coming Soon!
+permalink: /org-membership/
+subtitle: Why should my organization become a member of US-RSE?
+menubar: org-membership
+menubar_toc: true
+---
+
+The US Research Software Engineer Association (US-RSE) is the leading professional community of research software engineering 
+practitioners in the United States. Its mission is to empower a diverse workforce of Research Software Engineers (RSEs) through 
+advocacy for the crucial role of RSEs in driving research discoveries, professional development, collaboration, and 
+to establish a recognized profession. US-RSE envisions a future where it plays an essential role for RSEs to be universally 
+respected for advancing science, technology, and society through the transformative power of research software engineering. 
+The number of individual members of US-RSE has grown from about 20 in 2018 to more than 2500 in 2024. 
+
+**Become an Organizational Founding Member**
+
+US-RSE will soon start the pilot phase of an organizational membership program. The pilot phase will give organizations 
+the opportunity to be recognized in perpetuity as founding members of US-RSE.
+
+**Why support US-RSE?**
+
+US-RSE offers a variety of services to its individual and organizational members. Examples include
+<ul>
+<li>Our annual conference</li> 
+<ul>
+<li>The [2023 inaugural conference](https://us-rse.org/usrse23/) was a resounding success, selling out with 250 attendees.</li> 
+<li>For [2024](https://us-rse.org/usrse24/) we aim for 350 participants.</li>
+</ul>
+<li>[Monthly community calls](https://us-rse.org/events/#community-call)</li> 
+<li>[A monthly newsletter](https://us-rse.org/newsletters/)</li>
+<li>15 [working groups](https://us-rse.org/working-groups/) and [affinity groups](https://us-rse.org/about/affinity-groups/)</li>
+<li>Multiple virtual seminars series. Examples include</li>
+<ul>
+<li>the [DEI speaker series](https://us-rse.org/wg/dei/)</li>
+<li>the [Education and Training speaker series](https://us-rse.org/wg/education_training/)</li>
+</ul>
+<li>A heavily visited and successful [job board](https://us-rse.org/jobs/)</li>
+<li>Creation of resources such as the</li>
+<ul>
+<li>[Career Guidebook](https://zenodo.org/records/8329337) in collaboration with the Academic Data Science Alliance (over 100 pages)</li>
+<li>[Career Guide Brochure](https://zenodo.org/records/10073233) for RSEs in collaboration with IEEE Computer Society (25 pages)</li>
+</ul>
+</ul>
+
+By joining US-RSE as an organizational member you will ensure the continuation and expansion of these offerings along 
+with exclusive organizational member benefits (details coming soon).
+
+**How to join?**
+
+If you would like to join, please contact our Executive Director Sandra Gesing at [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]).
+
+{% include member-graph.html %}