Manage Your Membership

Whatever your connection to the charter school movement, CCSA membership is the first step to ensure you have the information and opportunity to deliver or support the high-quality education students deserve. The Association runs a comprehensive portfolio of programs and services for operating charter schools, charter development teams, charter support organizations, charter-friendly businesses, and charter professionals.

Learn About Membership

• Learn more about CCSA’s four types of memberships.
• View a fact sheet on CCSA's comprehensive portfolio of programs and services
• Read what people are saying about CCSA membership.

Your Individual Information

• Sign in to your calcharters.org profile
• Sign up for a free calcharters.org profile
• View/edit your calcharters.org profile
  • Contact information
  • Communications preferences/subscriptions

Your Organization’s Information

• View/edit your organization’s profile
• Join! Become a new member of CCSA
• Renew your organization’s CCSA membership

Information & Resources

Membership opens the door to information, products and services that increase academic and operational success while saving your school time and money. CCSA members receive essential information in a variety of ways, including:

• Technical assistance via an online resource library that contains reference materials, sample documents, hundreds of FAQs and information on topics ranging from board and governance to facilities and finance

• Updates on funding opportunities, upcoming events, important deadlines, and more, delivered to you each week through the CCSA Member Digest eNewsletter

• Exclusive members-only content, including presentations, pictures and video, on CCSA's interactive website

• The monthly California Charter Advocate, with in-depth features on key advocacy efforts and initiatives, and school best practices and awards.

• CCSA’s Annual Directory & Resource Guide, a complete listing of California’s 900+ charter schools that also contains a directory of charter-friendly service providers and contact information for our staff at the Association and the California Department of Education (CDE), as well as important websites and acronyms.

• CCSA Public Charter Schools Job Board Connecting the most highly-skilled administrators, principals, teachers and other professionals from across the nation with California's best public charter school employers. This is a FREE resource for CCSA members.

• Association-sponsored trainings and webinars offer charter leaders, staff, and supporters practical guidance from experts in a variety of fields. CCSA’s event calendar contains free public webinars to help individuals learn more about how to start a charter school as well as specialized members-only events.

• Families That Can educates, empowers and mobilizes parents to hold elected leaders accountable for ensuring every child has access to a high-quality public education. FTC advocates for quality public school choices, fair treatment and equal resources for charter public schools, and the advancement and growth of successful charter schools.

Financial & Legal Services

CCSA provides financial services to help members achieve fiscal sustainability. Member schools have access to facility and cash-flow financing through bridge loans for new enrollment and a charter facility loan fund. The Association also protects and advocates for the rights of charter schools through several legal service offerings, such as assistance with incorporation and no-/low-cost legal support.

• Are you interested in facilities loans? Learn more about the California Charter Building Fund.
• The High Quality Charter Grant Program is available to select charter schools in Los Angeles.
• CCSA Incorporation Services can help schools secure nonprofit corporate status.
• The Charter Schools Legal Defense Fund supports member schools and developers facing unfair treatment or confronting barriers to expansion.
• The Nonprofit Finance Fund (NFF) is providing Working Capital Lines of Credit for eligible charter schools to bridge state aid apportionment deferrals.

Insurance & Business Services

Providing high quality benefits packages means your employees will have the peace of mind that the coverage they deserve is in place, so they can focus on the important work of serving students. CCSA offers a variety of insurance and business services programs that ensure charter schools and their employees have the total coverage they need:

• Learn more about Charter Employee Services.
• Explore CCSA’s health insurance program for charter schools.
• Get details on the Joint Powers Authority Insurance Program, CCSA's workers’ compensation and liability insurance.

Charter-friendly Businesses Directory & Member Discounts

Select from a diverse list of charter-friendly vendors to meet your product and service needs. Choose by category or view an alphabetical listing of all CCSA vendor members as well as discounts offered to members. For each vendor, you'll find a description of services, contact info, discounts if offered, and website link

Mentoring & Professional Development

CCSA has several offerings to support charter schools in attracting, retaining and developing talented employees.

• Association-sponsored trainings and webinars offer charter leaders, staff, and supporters practical guidance from experts in a variety of fields.
• Our annual Conference is the premier networking and professional development event for charter schools in California.

ZOOM! Data Source

Administrators and teachers at hundreds of charter schools across California are saving time and resources by using ZOOM! Data Source to put clearer and comprehensive student achievement data at their fingertips. Through ZOOM! Data Source, schools gain affordable access to the online data management tool DataDirector^TM, customized technical and implementation support, and in-person and web-based professional development.