2025 - 2026 Academy Calendar and Suggested Affiliate Activities
Please use the information below for planning your 2025-2026 membership year. You can download a PDF of the calendar here.
Presidents-Elect may reference an onboarding timeline for the year in preparation for the role as President on the President-Elect Training page.
All Month – Member renewal and non-member recruitment efforts
June 1 – Change of officers/begin new membership/fiscal/program year (for majority of affiliates)
June 1 – DMIS updated with current membership year data
June 10 – FNCE® 2025 registration opens
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Conduct orientation and training for all volunteers
- Schedule reoccurring board and committee meetings
- Consider sending a welcome letter to new/returning members.
- Welcome new members – consider a welcome message each month with information on resources and upcoming events.
All Month – Member renewal and non-member recruitment efforts
July 4 – Academy offices closed in observance of Independence Day
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Consider contacting non-renewing members about renewing and/or survey on why they did not renew.
All Month – Kids Eat Right MonthTM
August 26 – FNCE® 2025 early bird registration deadline
August 31 – Principles of Affiliation submission due to the Academy
Ensure the affiliate has the previous year’s tax information and letter of good standing.
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Encourage nominations for the Academy’s election
- Help promote attendance to FNCE® and coordinate FNCE® event planning
September 1 – Call for 2026 FNCE® educational sessions and posters begins
September 1 – Academy offices closed in observance of Labor Day
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Encourage nominations for the Academy’s election
- Help promote attendance to FNCE®
- Nominating committee has initial meeting to secure timeline and delegate responsibilities.
October 11-14 – FNCE® in Nashville, TN
October Edition – 50 year member listings published in Journal
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Nominating Committee begin to recruit for new affiliate leaders for next membership year
All Month – Solicitation for national honors and awards nominations
November 15 – Call for 2026 FNCE® educational sessions and posters deadline
November 27-28 – Academy offices closed in observance of Thanksgiving
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Nominating Committee begin to recruit for new affiliate leaders for next membership year
December 24-January 1 – Academy offices closed in observance of Christmas and New Year’s
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Continue to recruit for new affiliate leaders
- Finance Committee meets to confirm process and timeline for budget request
All Month – Affiliates can submit RYDY, RDTY, ODY, EDL and ODSA award winners to the Academy (through May 1)
January 15 – as Intent to nominate deadline for national honors and awards
January 19 – Academy office closed in observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Begin program of work and budget planning for fiscal years beginning June
- Continue to recruit for new affiliate leaders
- Begin awards nomination process
All Month – Non-member recruitment begins
All Month –Affiliates can submit RYDY, RDTY, ODY, EDL and ODSA award winners to the Academy (through May 1)
February 1 – Membership renewal opens for the 2026-2027 year
February 1 – Academy national electronic voting begins, including affiliate project vote
February 15 – Academy national election voting ends
Mid Month – Foundation Awards deadline
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Continue to recruit for new affiliate leaders – start election process if able to
- Participate in project vote to promote the Academy’s election
- Plan a membership recruitment and renewal campaign
All Month - National Nutrition Month®
All Month - Affiliates can submit RYDY, RDTY, ODY, EDL and ODSA award winners to the Academy (through May 1).
All month – Promote membership renewals
March 11 – RDN Day (always the second Wednesday in March)
March 12 – NDTR Day (always the second Thursday in March)
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Begin program of work/budget planning for start of new fiscal year
- Recruit for new affiliate leaders
- Continue awards process – submit when ready
- Begin executing your membership recruitment and renewal campaign
All Month – Submit affiliate appointed and elected position names via survey
All month – Promote membership renewals
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Update board of directors/leadership team roster for start of fiscal year with elected and appointed positions
- Continue program of work/budget planning for start of new fiscal year
- Consider sending an end of year membership satisfaction survey
- Ensure award winners submitted to the Academy
All month – Promote membership renewals
All month - Submit elected and appointed official names to the Academy
May 1 – RYDY, RDTY, ODY, EDL and ODSA winner submissions cut-off date
May 1 – Submit affiliate appointed and elected position names via survey
May 25 – Academy offices closed in observance of Memorial Day
May 31 – Last day of the Academy fiscal year and membership renewal
Suggested affiliate events for the month:
- Finalize program of work/budget planning for the new fiscal year
- Conduct end-of-year board evaluation
- Ensure affiliate strategic plan and bylaws are current for the start of the fiscal year
- Update all service agreements/contracts for start of fiscal year. Complete performance evaluations before renewing contracts
- Ensure districts have signed an affiliate/district agreement for the start of the fiscal year
- Work with volunteers preparing to end their terms to update position descriptions for incoming volunteers
- Begin collecting data for the Principles of Affiliation submission
Schedule of Future FNCE® Sites
2025 October 11-14, 2025 Nashville, TN |
2026 October 24-27 San Antonio, TX |
2027 October 23-26 Washington, D.C. |
2028 October 7-10, 2028 Salt Lake City, UT |
2029 October 27-30, 2029 New Orleans, LA |
2030 October 12-15, 2030 Indianapolis, IN |
2031 October 25-28, 2031 Boston, MA |
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