AIBD's Compass Club Recruitment Program
View the current Compass Club Roster
Congratulations to those who earned recognition in our 2024-2025 Fiscal Year: 🥳🎉🎊
Bill Ding Recruitment Award (formerly 3-4-Free) 🎉🎊
- Joey Martin (IN) for recruiting Chief Architect (Corporate)
- Jeremy Moore (NC) for recruiting LDS Consulting (Corporate)
Winning Recruiter
- Dennis Fletcher (MD) (6 points) for three professional members - two recruits used gift cards. (Three years in a row)
Runners up
- Jenny Pippin (NC) (4 points) for two professionals - both used gift cards
- Eddie Reyes (AZ) (4 points) for 1 1/2 professionals and one student
- Sam Guidry (NC) (3 points) for one professional and one associate
Winning Chapter
- AIBD, Eastern Shore Chapter (8 points)
Existing Compass Club Members who changed levels:
- Eddie Reyes, Larry Walker, and Joey Martin were elevated to the BRONZE level
- Jennifer Pippin and Dennis Fletcher leveled up from BRONZE to SILVER
New Compass Club Members:
- Stephen Allen (NC)
- Mack Braxton (NC)
- Joel Davis (NC)
- George Maas (WI)
- Jeremy Moore (NC)
- Monica Perez (AZ)
- Eddie Reyes (AZ)
- Scott Ringo (VA)
- Anthony Rowe (IL)
- Raymond Smith (NC)
- Stephanie Nelson (AR)
- Glen Wilson (NC)
The History of the Compass Club
The Compass Club was launched in 2001 by a certified Professional member and AIBD Fellow, Mike Keesee (pause for applause).
View the current Compass Club Roster
The program's founding sponsor is SoftPlan Architectural Design Software, which contributed $15,000 to launch and sustain the program (yes, more applause).
When discussing the American Institute of Building Design with other industry professionals, encourage them to list you as their "sponsor" when filling out their AIBD membership application. When this happens, sponsors are rewarded.
- Earn 2 points for recruiting a new Professional Member and 1 point for recruiting a new member at any other membership level.
- Members enter the club upon their first recruit with a gift from AIBD, and then Compass Club lapel pins are awarded as follows:
- 5 points – A bronze Compass Club pin.
- 15 points – A silver Compass Club pin.
- 25 points – A gold Compass Club pin.
- 50 points – A diamond Compass Club pin.
- Individuals who recruit three Professional-level members during a membership period receive one year of complimentary national dues.
- The roster of Compass Club members is below.
- Each year at the annual meeting, the individual and the AIBD chapter that amassed the most Compass Club points are recognized.
- Points are tallied between July 1 and June 30 each year.
Receive a free year of membership!
The “Bill Ding Membership” recruitment award recognizes Professional-level members who recruit three new Professional-level members or one new Corporate-level member during the association's fiscal year (July through June).
Bill Ding Membership award winners earn their next year’s membership dues waived, a $289 savings!
Bill Ding Membership award winners earn their next year’s membership dues waived, a $289 savings!
Note: The award is named after AIBD's first president, William Dingledy, who (according to our research) cleverly named his business Bill Ding Design.