PENC Governance

The PENC Executive Committee reviews bylaws on an annual basis. If you have any questions, please reach out to PENC.

• Bylaws (updated June 2018)

Refund Policy

Membership Refunds: Membership application fees and renewals are final and non-refundable.

Conferences and Events: (Including, but not limited to the Raleigh Seminar, Summer Conference, Wilmington Seminar, Charlotte Seminar, and others as determined by the Board of Governors): If an individual requests a refund after their payment has been processed, that person will receive a refund of his/her registration fees minus a $25.00 to $75.00 (dependent on program) processing fee. PENC regrets that refunds will not be given for no-shows. All requests for a refund or exceptions to the cancellation/refund policy must be made in writing by the registrant to [email protected] per each event's cancellation policy, which will be included in the event registration details. After that time, no refund considerations will be made.

Privacy Policy

PENC is a membership organization. In order to provide resources to members, and to differentiate between types of members, PENC collects member information including but not limited to: mail and email address, phone number, username, demographic and professional information and certain member preferences. Your mail and email address will be used to send you information relating to your PENC membership. We will not sell, disseminate, disclose, trade, transmit, transfer, share, lease or rent any personally identifiable information to any third party not specifically authorized by you to receive your information except as we have disclosed to you in this Privacy Policy. Registrants for PENC Conference and Professional Development events provide contact information that we do disclose to exhibitors and sponsors to those events in order to facilitate networking and information sharing.

Tax Deductible Dues

NSPE-NC dues may be tax deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense. See below for the portion of your membership dues that is not deductible as an ordinary and necessary business expense to the extent that NSPE and your state spend membership dues resources on lobbying. Donations to the NSPE Educational Foundation and State Society Scholarship Funds are fully recognized as tax deductible charitable contributions for federal income tax purposes. NSPE membership dues (local, state, chapter) contributions, and PAC contributions are not tax deductible as charitable contributions. 

Compliance with the Tax Reform Act of 1993 required that the portion of membership dues attributable to lobbying and political activities at the State and Federal levels of government be considered nondeductible for income tax purposes. This nondeductible portion must be disclosed to members, on their dues invoice each year. For 2025, 100% of PENC member dues are considered nondeductible for income tax purposes.