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We offer Individual, Family, Youth, and Business memberships!
All members of MODA receive the following benefits:
All members of MODA receive the following benefits:
- Emailed (or printed) MODA Newsletter "On The Bit," plus "Half Halt" (our e-news blasts)
- FREE listing on our "Around the Ring" community links page
- Current MODA membership status is required at the time scores are earned for eligibility for MODA Year End Awards NOTE: as of 2021, both rider and owner must be MODA members.
- NOTE: Beginning with the 2020 show season, every member is required to pay $10 for each horse entered in the Year End Awards Program at the time that the Year End Awards forms are submitted. Also, please see volunteer requirements for awards program HERE
- Eligible to declare for the Catherine B Jacob Region 2 Schooling Show Awards (details HERE)
- Eligible to declare for the MODA Adult Education Grant (details HERE)
- Eligible to declare for USDF Regional Schooling Show Awards (details HERE)
- Reduced fees to MODA sponsored clinics, programs, and events
- Group discount for a subscription to Horseman's Corral Magazine. Send MODA $11 to cover the cost of your subscription and we'll add you to our group list. For more information about the publication, please visit their website.
Additionally, MODA members are Group Membership (GMO) for United States Dressage Federation (USDF) Region 2 giving them additional benefits:
- e-TRAK, USDF’s online learning center for dressage and equine education. Through one convenient location, access hundreds of educational resources, engage in structured learning activities, and earn USDF University Program credit!
- Ten issues of the award-winning USDF Connection magazine
- Access to the online version of USDF Connection Eligibility to compete as rider and/or owner at USEF-licensed/USDF-recognized shows
- Eligibility for rider awards (Rider Performance Awards, Bronze, Silver and Gold Medal, Freestyle Gold, Silver and Bronze Bar, Master’s Challenge). Rider receives patch, pin, or picture frame, personalized certificate, honorary presentation at USDF’s Annual Awards Banquet, publicity in the Annual Award Banquet program, listing on the USDF website, (both current year and historical lists), and will be listed in the yearbook issue of the USDF Connection
- Eligibility to compete for Adequan/USDF Pas de Deux year-end awards
- Access to “members only” section of the USDF website
- E-newsletters sent by USDF, which helps Group Members stay in touch with what is happening at USDF and in the sport of dressage
- A USDF Group Member card which can be used at USDF competitions and an online membership card available for printing, at any time, free of charge
- Discounted rates at USDF educational events
- Discount in the USDF store Discount on memberships and subscriptions with USDF’s educational partners
- Eligibility to earn USDF University Program credit
- Representation at the BOG through the GMO delegate Eligibility to receive a Ruth Arvanette Memorial Fund grant, which funds convention attendance
- Eligibility for the Regional GMO Volunteer of the Year Award
- GMO youth members (21 and under) are eligible for the USDF Youth Volunteer of the Year Award, USDF Shining Star Awards, and USDF Arts and Creativity Contest
- Eligibility for the “L” Education Program
- Grants funded by The Dressage Foundation are available to USDF Group Members