Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association

What Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association does

The Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association (DBA) is a private, non-profit membership association that serves as the unified governance and advocacy body for the 144 district board members who govern Wisconsin's 16 public technical college districts. The Association operates as a forum for trustees to learn, share, promote, and create together, while serving as the official liaison with the Wisconsin legislature, U.S. Congress, state and federal agencies, college presidents, public employee labor organizations, and the Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS) State Board. Membership is automatic upon appointment to a district board, with each district contributing nine trustees to the 144-member base. Governance is exercised through a 16-member Board of Directors (one director per district board), quarterly meetings held on a rotating basis, annual in-service sessions, and an awards portfolio spanning five programs (Board Member of the Year, Distinguished Alumni, TECh Award, Media Award, and Longstanding Board Member Award).

The Association's operational backbone is the Wild Apricot membership management platform, hosted at districtboards.org, which provides website hosting, member authentication, event registration, and member communications. Supporting technology includes Constant Contact for email distribution (WTCS-in-Brief newsletter), Zoom for virtual meetings, Microsoft Forms for award nominations, Affinipay for payment processing, Google Analytics for web analytics, and LinkedIn/Google/Microsoft/Apple for third-party social login. Administrative services are outsourced to TEAM, an association management company, under a partnership that handles meeting planning, website management, and financial administration.

The Association's revenue model is implied to be membership dues and event registration fees, though no specific amounts are publicly disclosed. Pricing is "automatic membership" for all 144 board members at no separate cost, with event registration fees applying to programs like the Fall Meeting and ACCT Leadership Congress participation. The full-time staff footprint is 2 employees (Executive Director and Program & Engagement Manager), with the remaining operational capacity absorbed by TEAM. The downstream system the Association ultimately serves — Wisconsin's 16 technical colleges — enrolls more than 300,000 adults annually, making it the state's largest higher education system.

Name

Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association

Legal name

Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association

Website

https://districtboards.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association is a private, non-profit membership association that serves as the unified governance and advocacy body for the 144 trustees governing Wisconsin's 16 public technical college districts, providing member education, inter-district coordination, and state/federal legislative liaison.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Madison

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Membership Dues / Association Fees: The Association is a private, non-profit organization. Membership is automatic for the 144 district board members of Wisconsin's 16 technical college districts. The Association likely derives revenue from member dues, though specific amounts are not publicly disclosed.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

The Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association is a private, non-profit membership association serving as the statewide forum for the 144 trustees who govern Wisconsin's 16 technical college districts. Its core offering is the delivery of member services—including quarterly meetings, an annual awards program (five categories), legislative advocacy, professional development, and weekly communications—facilitated through the Wild Apricot membership platform at districtboards.org.

Product overview

The Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association operates a membership-based association management platform built on Wild Apricot software, serving as a forum for trustees of Wisconsin's 16 locally-governed technical college districts. The core platform provides website hosting, member authentication, and event management, supported by complementary programs including annual awards (Board Member of the Year, Distinguished Alumni, TECh Award, Media Award, Longstanding Board Member), quarterly meetings and events, legislative updates and advocacy services, monthly communications (WTCS-in-Brief e-newsletter), and professional development resources for board members. The association also partners with TEAM (an association management company) for administrative services.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Awards Programs

Quantifiable outcome

• More than 300,000 adults enroll annually in Wisconsin technical colleges — the state's largest higher education system.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

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API detail

Core technology

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App detail

Integration4 records

Feature1 record

Partnerships

Eight partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• TEAM (Association Management Company)coreImplementation/ SI/ Consulting PartnerThe Association partners with TEAM, an association management company, to assist in meeting planning, website management, and other administrative and financial services. TEAM contacts include Sean Dresden and Clair Stollfus.
• Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe Association coordinates with ACCT for national-level leadership and governance programs. The DBA serves as the ACCT State Coordinator, with Dianne Lazear (Nicolet) and Lori Laberee (Northwood) as co-chairs. Wisconsin trustees participate in ACCT's National Leadership Congress.
• Wisconsin Technical College System (WTCS)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerWTCS is the coordinating and oversight body for Wisconsin's 16 public two-year technical colleges. The Association serves as liaison with the WTCS State Board and staff. The two organizations share a Master Calendar of events and meetings.
• BairdminorGTM or Marketing PartnerBaird, a global employee-owned financial services firm headquartered in Milwaukee, sponsors the WTCS Student Ambassador Program. Each of Wisconsin's 16 technical colleges selects one student annually for this leadership development program.
• Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerWASDA events are included on the shared Master Calendar along with DBA, WTCS, and ACCT events.
• AffinipayminorOthersAffinipay handles and stores payment data for any purchases made through the Association's services. The Association's privacy policy references Affinipay's privacy notice for payment data handling.
• LinkedInminorOthersLinkedIn account connection is permitted as one of the third-party account options for user authentication on the Association's services.
• Google AnalyticsminorOthersGoogle Analytics is used to track and analyze usage of the Association's website services, including Demographics and Interests Reporting and Display Network Impressions Reporting.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Regional players

• League of Wisconsin Municipalities: A Wisconsin-based membership association for municipal governments. It parallels the DBA's role as a statewide forum that represents members before the Wisconsin legislature and provides policy, training, and advocacy services.
• Wisconsin Association of School District Administrators (WASDA): A Wisconsin-based membership association for school district administrators, included on DBA's shared Master Calendar. It serves a parallel governance-support role for K-12 administrators in the same state, with a comparable member-services and advocacy structure.

Broad incumbents

• Association of Community College Trustees (ACCT): The national membership association for community college trustees, which the Wisconsin DBA directly partners with as its State Coordinator. ACCT operates the same trustee-advocacy and leadership-development model at the national level that DBA performs for Wisconsin.
• Association of School Business Officials International (ASBO): A membership association for school business officials and education administrators. ASBO parallels the DBA model of serving a specific education-governance persona (business officials vs. trustees) with training, advocacy, and member resources.
• American Association of Community Colleges (AACC): The national membership organization for community colleges, including presidents and trustees. AACC represents the broader institutional constituency that the Wisconsin DBA serves at the board-trustee level for Wisconsin's technical colleges.
• National Council of State Directors of Community Colleges: A coordinating body for state-level community and technical college system offices. It operates one tier above the Wisconsin DBA at the state-agency level, but shares the policy-coordination and federal-liaison mission for two-year public colleges.
• National Association of State Directors of Career Technical Education (NASDCTEc): The national association representing state CTE directors. NASDCTEc operates upstream of the Wisconsin DBA at the state-agency level, but shares the same career-technical-education policy, advocacy, and federal-funding-liaison mission.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/wisconsin-technical-college-district-boards-association-inc

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Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

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