DACOR


Registration Overview

2025 Membership Application
 

We offer two membership categories to include a broad array of foreign affairs professionals in the DACOR community as well as certain relatives of foreign affairs professionals. Your category will be determined by our Membership Committee using the criteria below.
 
► Regular Members Regular members have full voting rights.
  • Active duty, former and retired members of the foreign affairs agencies of the U.S. Government (State, USAID, FCS, FAS, USAGM, APHIS, and the former USIA)
  • Active duty, former and retired members of other agencies of the U.S. Government who served overseas or domestically in capacities principally related to foreign affairs
  • Other foreign affairs professionals (including, but not limited to, academics, consultants, policy analysts, journalists, international development specialists, non-profit/NGO professionals, and persons who have worked overseas in international business)
  • Others whose special circumstances warrant membership
  • At their own discretion, the spouses or partners of these individuals

► Legacy Members Legacy members do not have voting rights.
  • Spouses and partners and former spouses and partners of deceased DACOR members paying at a special dues rate
  • Children and grandchildren of deceased DACOR members paying at the regular rate.

Of Note
 

  1. Spouses/partners of members are welcomed as members with reduced rights at no additional cost. A spouse/partner of a regular member may choose to pay a membership fee of $69 (Resident) or $33 (Non-Resident) to gain full Regular membership rights, including voting and serving on the Board or as an Officer.
  2. Foreign Service officers or other U.S. Government employees who have been given orders for their first foreign affairs post in the past six months receive their first membership year free.
  3. All members must be U.S. citizens.
  4. In order to be billed at a Young Professional rate, one must provide DACOR membership staff one's date of birth.

2025 Dues
 

Upon acceptance into membership, you will be billed according to your membership category, as detailed below, and billed the appropriate initiation fee (please note: active duty, full-time U.S. government employees are exempt from the initiation fee when they join as new members as are those who join as a young professional (34 and younger)). Residents are those who live within 50 miles of DACOR Bacon House, as the crow flies.
Regular Member - 35 & Above Resident: $495 Non-resident: $171
Regular Member - Young Professional 30 - 34 Resident: $248 Non-resident: $86
Regular Member - Young Professional Under 30 Resident: $99 None-resident: $35
Former Spouse/Widow/er Resident: $97 Non-resident: $64
Initiation Fee Resident: $250 Non-resident: $100

Please note: Applications are reviewed bi-monthly. 
 

2025 Membership and "Privileges of the House" Opportunities for Those Affected by Staffing Changes
 

Our colleagues in the foreign affairs community who have been negatively affected by staffing changes this year in the principal foreign affairs agencies, specifically those who have been RIF’d or accepted the DRP 2.0 offer in 2025, are invited to join us at DACOR. There are two options:
  • Apply to be a member of DACOR in 2025 and indicate they are an individual in the above category so their initiation fee is waived.
  • Request “Privileges of the House” until 12/31/2025 which includes
    • Register for DACOR programs and social events at member pricing
    • Reserve DACOR Bacon House overnight guest rooms
    • Utilize member “stop by/in” rights (use of the DACOR Bacon House lounges and library on the ground floor during business hours if no one else has reserved the space for a private event)
    • Arrange private events at member pricing (meetings, lunches, receptions, etc., both small and large)
NOTE: In order to receive “Privileges of the House,” the standard membership application should be filled out. Individuals wishing to participate in "Privileges of the House" should select yes to: I am interested in "Privileges of the House" rather than membership at this time. I am a former employee (Foreign Service, Civil Service or contractor) of one of the five U.S. Government foreign affairs agencies (State, USAID, FCS, FAS, USAGM) who in 2025 has been RIF’d or accepted the DRP 2.0 offer and am interested in being considered for “Privileges of the House."
 
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