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 (such as the list of new members), as well as feature stories and photographs of license plates and related materials. Each issue includes an advertising section in which only individual members may 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 to disseminate information in a uniform, consistent manner.

General Administration of the organization includes expenses for the Secretary, Treasurer, Archvist and Webmaster as well as other overhead expenses of administration of the organization

The organization holds an annual convention each summer in a different US city than the previous year. In recent years, 310-476 mambers have attended this 3.5 day event held primarily to foster camaraderie amongst indiiduals with a 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. The 2021 convention was held in Hampton, VA from July 20-23, 2022