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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

Associations Now

Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. This process helped Werner and her team identify the first six chapters. More are coming soon. “As

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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit. Like most associations, we are small staff, so we try to utilize marketing and communications techniques that automate member engagement communications and processes,” Doyle says. How is it changing the tactics you use to recruit, engage, and retain members?

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Flipped Volunteering: The Better Way to Invite and Engage

Idea Architects

Moreover, lets make this a standard part of the membership application process (or the confirmation of joining) instead of treating volunteer recruitment as a separate effort done at a different time. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Here are the questions changing our model needs to include. What do you care about?