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Membership in the VBCG is $20 per year for individual or family (one level of membership).  Below you will find a list of all the benefits and programs available through the VBCG.  Most are available to anyone, but we encourage you to join us.  Your dues help to support us, the equipment and programs that we provide to promote our mission to help everyone understand and enjoy their computers more!

Memberships run concurrently with the calendar year, i.e., from January through December.  Membership renewals become due and payable on January 1 each year and are considered past due on March 1.  In order to not be removed from our email list, please renew your membership before March 1 ‒ thank you!

If you are renewing, you do not need to submit a membership application, unless you would like to update or change any of your membership/contact information.  You may renew your membership at any of our General Meetings or by sending your dues to the VBCG at P.O. Box 2564, Vero Beach, FL 32961-2564.

For a copy of our membership application, please click here.  The application will open in a new window, from which you may print it out.

As a member of the VBCG, you will only receive communications from us via email and an online newsletter.  Therefore it is very important that we have a working email address for you.  We send out at least one email a month with a notification/reminder of our upcoming, monthly General Meeting and the publication of our monthly newsletter.  If you are not hearing from us, please send us an email with your email address (or check your spam/junk folder!) so that we may keep you up to date about our meetings, newsletter and any changes in our SIG schedules.

For more information about and access to our newsletter, please see the "Library/Newsletters" menu.

You may update your email address with us at any time simply by sending us an email at webmaster@vbcg.org, or using the "Membership Updates" page of our website, under the "Members Only" menu.

The VBCG is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization and donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law.

The following is a list of benefits and services provided by the VBCG.  Please consider joining us and getting involved!  We are always looking for new ideas so please consider sharing your knowledge for the benefit of all of us!

  1. Monthly Membership Meeting – a meeting conducted each month at the Indian River County Main Library, Vero Beach, at which speakers and presentations are provided on various computer-related topics. A self-help, question and answer session is also conducted to assist attendees with computer-related issues, problems and suggestions they can ask or offer.

  2. Help Desk – a special feature offered to anyone, prior to the beginning of the regularly scheduled Monthly Membership Meeting, at which various members of the organization are available to provide one-on-one assistance with specific computer issues or questions.

  3. Special Interest Group (SIG) Meetings – Special Interest Group meetings are monthly, small group meetings on various and specific personal computer topics, conducted at the Indian River County Main Library, Vero Beach. Informal presentations and discussions are conducted to provide more in-depth demonstration and answering of questions than is generally provided or appropriate at the Monthly Membership meetings.

  4. VBCG Website – a publicly available resource that provides information about all VBCG meetings, services and membership.

  5. "The Homepage" Newsletter – a monthly publication produced by the VBCG with information about various personal computer topics and issues. It also contains contact information for the members of its Board of Directors. The newsletter is published by the VBCG electronically and available to the general public through its website.

  6. Help Line – members of the VBCG who have expertise in specific computer hardware or software topics, who have made themselves available to offer assistance. Contact information for these members is available through the VBCG website.

  7. Discussion Boards – an interactive feature of the VBCG website that allows anyone to post questions and/or offer answers or suggestions on specific computer topics.

  8. Email Distribution List – an email feature that is offered to current members only. The purpose of this activity is to provide the VBCG membership with email reminders for its upcoming Monthly Membership Meeting and other activities or issues that we believe would be of interest to our members.