Membership
In 1984, the Peace Corps recruiting office in Dallas called a very recently returned volunteer and offered her a list of phone numbers and addresses (this was long before email) if she would attempt to get people together to start a returned group in the Gulf Coast area. In 1985, our group, Gulf Coast Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers was born. We continue to support the 3rd goal of Peace Corps.
The Gulf Coast Council (GCC) has officially become the Houston
Peace Corps Association. We are a members-only organization,
although every newly returned Peace Corps Volunteer is automatically
given free membership for one year after their COS (closure of
service). Membership benefits are many:
You have a say in the
running of the group.
You may serve on the Board or a Committee
of your choice.
See Board Job Descriptions
here.
You may vote on where to send Peace Corps Partnership
money. Here is a slide show of
one of our partnership projects.
You may vote on the continued support of KIVA and other
support projects.
You may represent our group at Regional and
National Events.
You can help decide what activities our group
joins. Ex. iFest, Habitat, Project Blazing Star, Child Advocates,
etc.
Your fees help cover our fixed costs:
website fees, bank fees, event incidentials-paper products, sodas,
water, etc.
Local Membership: Please complete the PDF form so we can get to know you
better:
Membership form
Local Membership:
Costs just $15 a year. This pays for one year's membership
in the Houston Peace Corps Association.
NATIONAL is currently transitioning to a new website and data management system. Joining via National is not possible as of 1-27-24. We will update this page once we have more information.
National Membership
in National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is now automatic as the
National Group dropped their membership fee recently. Just click
join National-Free membership. They are
happy to still send local groups their membership.
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