What You Can Expect
After submitting your application to join, the Treasurer and Secretary will review and approve your membership. If you’ve indicated interest, we will add you to the Google Group list-serve and to the Find a Midwife page of our website. You’ll receive a confirmation of being added to either/both locations, as well as the password for our Members website. Please know this may take a few weeks to process. If you have not received communications regarding your application within 4 weeks, please contact the Treasurer.
Once a member, you’ll receive agendas and announcements for upcoming meetings, and you may join committees or current initiatives at any time.
Membership dues are to be paid in January of each year. If you joined the WGOM after October 1st, your initial membership will be continued into the next year.
Eligibility – Welcome!
WGOM welcomes new members at any time with renewals due January 1st of each year. Members join a statewide community of midwives licensed to provide maternity care. Members are invited to participate in membership meetings and committees, hold an office in the Guild leadership, add their online practice listing in the Find a Midwife section of the Guild website, and join a common listserve to receive online information and updates pertinent to midwifery practice on statewide and national levels. Once you are a current member, your practice will be added to our “Find a Midwife” page. Please allow 2-4 weeks for processing.
Prospective members can join the Guild as Professional members or Associate members. Per WGOM Bylaws, Professional members are midwives who are Licensed Midwives or Certified Nurse Midwives that hold a license to practice midwifery in Wisconsin or are retired Midwives with an inactive license. Professional members also include students with a Wisconsin temporary permit to practice midwifery. Voting privileges are offered to Professional members. Associate Members may be any other person who is involved in or associated with midwifery. These members do not have voting privileges at this time.
Annual Membership Dues
To become a member, or to renew your current membership, please complete the membership application below along with annual membership dues. Students, midwives in their 1st year of practice, non-practicing midwives and retired midwives are asked to pay dues at the sliding scale of $35-100 and practicing professionals are asked to pay dues at the sliding scale of $75-500. The Guild suggests 1–2% of a practice income as your dues to your professional organization. Dues must be sent each year to the Guild treasurer by January 1st.
WGOM offers a membership fee waiver for people who self-identify as being from a historically disenfranchised population or group or for those having a significant financial need and for whom the sliding scale fee would constitute a barrier to joining the Guild. Current BOD members are gifted waived membership dues.
Apply to Join or Renew Your Membership Now!
In the form below – please select your membership type and payment tier, click continue, complete the membership application, and proceed to credit card payment. Enrollment for membership is open the entire year with renewal in January of each year. *With the digital form below, you’ll have the option to enroll in automatically yearly renewal, which will occur January 1st of each year. For any member with a waived fee, automatic annual renewal is not an option at this time. Please be sure to renew with us next year.
If you apply for membership to the WGOM during October-December, your membership will be current through the following calendar year with renewal due the next January 1st. If you opt for automatic yearly membership renewal, it will be processed then (i.e. apply November 2024, membership current through 2025, renewal due or auto processed January 1, 2026).
If you opt for automatic yearly membership renewal – thank you! Your payment for membership dues will be processed on January 1st of each year. 30 days prior, you’ll receive a reminder email that your credit card will be processed.
If you prefer a check and/or paper application, renewal form and checks made payable to WGOM should be mailed to: WGOM, Jade Dillman, 5420 20th Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54703. Questions? Email Jade at: jmdillman1552@gmail.com
A printable membership form can be found here.
