Abbreviation | AIP |
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Formation | 1958 |
Type | Professional association |
36-6131545 [1] | |
Legal status | 501(c)(3) [1] |
Headquarters | 618 Church Street, Suite 220, Nashville, Tennessee 37219, U.S. |
Coordinates | 36°09′44″N86°46′57″W / 36.162342°N 86.782563°W |
Al Gage, CPP, PAP | |
Glen Hall, CP | |
Revenue | $75,832 [2] |
Website | aipparl |
The American Institute of Parliamentarians (AIP) is a not-for-profit educational organization founded in 1958. [3] The objectives of AIP are to promote the use and teaching of parliamentary procedure, as well as the training and certification of parliamentarians. [4]
This organization had 48 members in its first year. [4] It has grown to more than 1,200 members throughout the world, with most of the members residing in North America. [4]
AIP uses many parliamentary authorities in its education programs. [5] This diversity allows members and students to be aware of the common parliamentary procedures, understand the history and theory of why certain procedures exist, and advise organizations on the availability of different procedures. [5]
For one of the parliamentary authorities, The Standard Code of Parliamentary Procedure , AIP was involved in its revision following the death of the original author. [6]
Many members of AIP are also members of the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP), and both organizations have worked together with joint NAP/AIP Chapters, collaboration on a Code of Ethics for Parliamentarians, and joint conferences. [7] One of the main differences between the two organizations is that NAP focuses on Robert's Rules of Order Newly Revised (RONR), while AIP stresses proficiency and familiarity with a variety of parliamentary authorities. [8]
In order to retain CP or CPP status, the member must participate in continuing education.
AIP published works on parliamentary procedure, including Fundamentals of Parliamentary Law and Procedure , Complete Minutes Manual, and How to be a Parliamentarian. [5]
Professional certification, trade certification, or professional designation, often called simply certification or qualification, is a designation earned by a person to assure qualification to perform a job or task. Not all certifications that use post-nominal letters are an acknowledgement of educational achievement, or an agency appointed to safeguard the public interest.
Robert's Rules of Order, often simply referred to as Robert's Rules, is a manual of parliamentary procedure by U.S. Army officer Henry Martyn Robert. "The object of Rules of Order is to assist an assembly to accomplish the work for which it was designed [...] Where there is no law [...] there is the least of real liberty". The term "Robert's Rules of Order" is also used more generically to refer to any of the more recent editions, by various editors and authors, based on any of Robert's original editions, and the term is used more generically in the United States to refer to parliamentary procedure.
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