{"id":8205,"date":"2019-05-23T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8205"},"modified":"2019-05-23T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-23T14:37:11","slug":"revised-bylaws-provide-more-value-for-poweramerica-membership","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/news\/revised-bylaws-provide-more-value-for-poweramerica-membership\/","title":{"rendered":"Revised Bylaws Provide More Value for PowerAmerica Membership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>PowerAmerica&#8217;s members recently voted to revise the organization&#8217;s Bylaws to improve the value proposition for members and to make PowerAmerica more attractive to prospective members.\u00a0 The three primary revisions are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Enhancement of intellectual property rights to make members eligible to share the rights to intellectual property developed by SiC and GaN projects funded with member dues.\u00a0 Presently, there are four such projects under way, with more projects expected to start this year.<\/li>\n<li>Expansion of membership criteria to make all participants in the SiC and GaN ecosystem eligible for membership.<\/li>\n<li>Revision of the PowerAmerica dues structure to make membership more affordable, especially for smaller companies and universities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Details of membership membership benefits and dues can be found at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1444b8589612431f2c3e51d80&amp;id=9056b516e8&amp;e=61a6f405ba\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.us13.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3D1444b8589612431f2c3e51d80%26id%3D9056b516e8%26e%3D61a6f405ba&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1558707531242000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE9Qdhd8srkz2QFFHdZn5LbyFEzxg\">PowerAmerica website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PowerAmerica&#8217;s members recently voted to revise the organization&#8217;s Bylaws to improve the value proposition for members and to make PowerAmerica more attractive to prospective members.\u00a0 The three primary revisions are: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":150,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8205"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/150"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8206,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/8205\/revisions\/8206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8205"},{"taxonomy":"news-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poweramericainstitute.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-category?post=8205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}