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How to enhance your association’s membership committee

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Your membership committee plays a vital role in your association—guiding conversations about key membership benefits, identifying potential member pain points , and strategizing solutions to better support your members. We’re here to help you enhance your membership committee! Responsibility. Supporting staff.

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Satisfaction Surveys Can Improve Your Member Volunteer Experience

Associations Now

Last year, the National Association for Gifted Children designed a satisfaction survey for its member volunteers to get a better sense of how volunteers felt about their committee experience. To meet its volunteers’ expectations, the association needed to understand how volunteers felt about their experiences within their committees. “I

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Leading During a Pandemic: Setting Strategy, Virtually

Associations Now

As travel restrictions and social distancing guidelines remain in place, more associations will have to conduct their board meetings virtually. Earlier this month, association leadership consultant Lowell Aplebaum, CAE, helped coordinate a day-and-a-half leadership retreat for the board of the Construction Specifications Institute (CSI).

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Does Your Governance Structure Need a Reboot?

Associations Now

A new report finds that association boards struggle with strategy. Jon Hockman, McKinley Advisors For instance, the survey finds that while a large proportion of organizations are talking about DEI (78 percent), only slightly more than half (53 percent) say they have a comprehensive DEI strategy. How we design agendas still matters.

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Keeping Association Leaders and Staff Accountable

Association Leaders

In our businesses if we don’t establish Strategies, Goals and specific, measurable Objectives we hold ourselves and each other accountable for achieving, we will not achieve our mission. However, it’s an easy mistake to make because of the nature of volunteer leadership. At each meeting (committee, board, staff, etc.)

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Even when board members come to the job with some financial background, they may not be familiar with nonprofit accounting standards , their new leadership responsibilities, or your organization’s statements. The treasurer and the finance committee also have important roles to play. Younger members in particular may need coaching.

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A Strong Online Community Starts by Supporting Community Managers

Associations Now

They should also have frequent discussions about lessons learned, well-tested strategies, and new ways to approach difficult situations. When this happens to Austin, she knows she can fall back on her editorial board—ASCE’s volunteer committee that is responsible for making decisions about questionable content.

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