Automobile License Plate Collectors Association

Six times per year the organization publishes a full color magazine that it mails to its 2,970 members. The magazine is the primary means used by the organization to accomplish its mission, by facilitating communication about the hobby and providing information to all members about past and future activities of the organization.the publication contains coverage of sanctioned regional events, stories about members and their collecting endeavors, membership information, as well as feature stories and and photographs of License plates and related materials. Each issue includes an advertising section in which individual members offer to trade, buy, and sell License plates and related materials, which is the only direct source of publication-related revenue. With the many ways that members communicate, the club publication remains the single method that the organization and its leaders use disseminate information in a uniform, consistent manner.

General administration of the organization includes expenses for the secretary, treasurer, archiveist and webmaster as well as overhead expenses of administration of the organization.

The organization holds an annual convention each summer in a different us city. In recent years, 310-476 members have attended this 3.5 day event held primarily to foster camaraderie amongst individuals with common hobby interest. The program includes a scheduled social event, a business meeting, a fundraising auction at which members bid on plates donated by attendees and three days of open time during which attendees display, trade, buy and sell License plates and related materials.