These organizations provide a forum for exchanging and developing programs and ideas for the betterment of square dancing. Today is square dancers are very involved with ty functions. Programs such as those dealing with youth and handicapable dancers provide support to groups that often are suffering from the effects of budgetary cuts. Square dancing today provides much more than recreation. Square dancing provides a great number of educational and social benefits.
Dancers have the opportunity to develop promotional, leadership, and organizational skills.
As a member of a club or other square dance organization, dancers are involved in the promotion of that groups events. The members develop the promotional concept and then follow it through to the event. As officers of a club or other organization danoers are called upon to provide leadership and guidance for their fellow dancers. On the club level its finding a hall, hiring a caller, planning refreshments, advertising, etc. This expands to the national level where volunteers deal with the logistics of as mqpy as 20,000 dancers or more converging on a city for a three day national convention.