The California Barbecue Association offers membership and sponsorship opportunities

The California Barbecue Association welcomes members and sponsors to join the Association in order to assist needy children and to promote an understanding and appreciation of authentic barbecue.

California Barbecue Association

The Association is a non-profit, charitable California Corporation.

Note: as of June 2003, the CBBQA is not a 501 (c) (3) corporation.  We are going through a corporate reorganization to regain our IRS status.

The Association is organized to assist needy children and their families in part by promoting the understanding and appreciation of real, authentic barbecue.  Real barbecue traces its roots to the cooking techniques of Native Americans who lived in the Southeast and Caribbean before the arrival of Columbus. 

The Association hosts many barbecue events and sanctions many barbecue contests throughout California and the western states.  The mission of the Association, in summary, is to assist needy children through the promotion of an understanding and appreciation of authentic American barbecue, by presenting get-togethers, contests, festivals and other events for the members, their families, their friends and the public.

CBBQA members enjoy authentic American barbecue at one of our many "Q-Fests" held in parks or campgrounds

Authentic American Barbecue is being re-discovered by Americans everywhere, and no more so than in California and the West.  Barbecue contests and other events generate an ever-growing public interest and awareness of real barbecue and increase in the "Q'munity".  Members and sponsors help the Association continue the promotion of an understanding and appreciation of real barbecue, which benefits needy children while popularizing the Native American roots of authentic barbecue.

Membership in the Association

There are two levels of membership in the Association:

• Regular membership (including individuals and spouses)
• Business membership

Each individual member and each couple who share a single membership pay only a single dues as an individual or joint regular member.  In the case of spousal memberships, both share the membership, so both receive a membership card, business cards, and other benefits, although they share a single copy of the Smokin' Times newsletter.  Furthermore, spousal members are entitled to cast a single, "joint" vote at membership meetings.

Members are now classified as regular members (whose dues are $25.00 per year) and business members (whose dues are $50.00 per year). 

Benefits of membership include invitations to special events, discounts at restaurants and BBQ retailers, monthly newsletters, and many others, as explained on the benefits page.

One major benefits of this website is the ability of new members to join online.  Members can even pay their dues online.  Select a link in the right margin to join.  

Finally, existing members may renew their memberships, update their "contact information" (name, address, phone, etc.), and pay their dues online.  Select a link in the right margin to renew.