Chapter Development
From PDPA
On a grass roots level, the PDPA is a platform for people to network and market decorative painting to the public and other building trades industries. Starting a PDPA chapter is like starting a local marketing group to host exhibitions, fundraisers, and other events that will get members more leads to prospective clients.
Online you will find a section of the website specifically dedicated to starting a chapter. This section will have a marketing statement, step by step procedures, pre-made documents and resources to help you get started. Contact Andre Martinez to see how you can become part of the PDPA leadership community.
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PDPA structure information
The PDPA is a Private non profit trade association registered in the state of Colorado since 2003. The organization is currently filing for it 501c6 non profit status with the federal government. The PDPA is a national organization with branch offices around the US (Local chapters) These are under the governance of the national board of directors (BOD). Each branch has its own PDPA bank branch and can fundraise separately from the national body but must report to the BOD at the end of every year.
For more information like this contact PDPA's Board President Andre Martinez
Marketing Statement
Thanks to membership support from people like you the PDPA is succeding in bettering the decorative painting industry.
Chapter focus
The PDPA local chapters focus on pooled marketing and networking. The focus is to assist in the acquisition of jobs for our members. We do this by banding to gether in marketing efforts and hosting public decorative painting exhibitions.
Value statement
Having developed a set of industry specific Education Standards, the PDPA enables the Decorative Painting Professional to clearly demonstrate the precise level of their expertise in any given specialty. For the first time in the history of Decorative painting, a decorator in Des Moines or an Architect in Albany can specify a finish for Fresno and find a local Professional Applicator capable of completing the work. The PDPA will be marketing their membership, locally and nationally, to expose the most capable finishers to the highest levels of specifiers.
How to start up a chapter
- Step 1 Sign up as a PDPA member
- Step 2 Post a link on your website
- Step 3Formalize your chapter with the national office. (Contact Andre Martinez)
- Step 4 Appoint a chapter president (This could be you or someone else)
- Step 5 We will designate a Chapter web area on the PDPA site for you to use. Fill it up with local news to entice more members in your area.
- Step 6 We will send you some PDPA brochures with signup forms on the back. (All sign ups are done via mail and an online option will be available soon.) Distribute them everywhere!
- Step 7 Plan and hold your first PDPA open house, following the lead of the Denver chapter. Talk to Sheri Hunt, Denver's president, for advice and planning help.
- Step 8 Plan and hold your first decorative painting exhibition, following the lead of the Denver chapter. Talk to Sheri Hunt, Denver's president, for advice, planning help, and marketing tools.
- Step 9 Hold fundraisers, conduct outreach events, create outreach projects, and hold local meetings
Example press and marketing materials
Here you will find PDPA advertisements and brochures to assist with chapter startup. If you need high resolution imagery or different file formats so you can alter them please contact us at info@pdpa.org
- PDPA Logos
- PDPA brochure
- Local event flyer directed towards decorative painters
- Design Exhibition flyer to the public
Rules and regulations
Chapters must be in compliance with the PDPA Code of Ethics
