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Five steps to becoming an innovative association and driving member value

Nimble AMS

When you think of an innovator, you might imagine Marc Benioff, Sheryl Sandberg, or Elon Musk. Innovators introduce new ideas, inventions, or discoveries to our ever-changing world. But your association can become innovative and drive superior member value. How would adopting innovative technology help your association thrive?

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Here’s a big idea: Innovation can be small

Association Success

I bet that if you pull any association’s job posting for a leadership opening, you will find the word “innovation” at least half the time, either as a requirement of the type of person or a descriptor of where the organization is going. This is not the only way to define, measure or think of innovation.

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Innovation Challenge Brings Members and Startups Together to Address Climate Change

Associations Now

For a second year, a leading industry association has launched an innovation challenge that connects startups with member companies to address climate change. According to GCCA Cement Director and Head of Innovation Claude Loréa, concrete accounts for 7 percent of global CO2 emissions.

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5 Payment Processing Features To Acquire Younger Donors

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Features like contactless payments and in-app purchases make the donation process simple and convenient, which tech-savvy generations will appreciate. . To help acquire younger donors, we’ll guide you through the following payment processing essentials: ?. In turn, you’ll reduce the risk of error and speed up the donation process. .

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At One Meeting, Innovative Registration Makes for Happier Attendees

Associations Now

To create innovative and interactive meetings, planners around the nation are raising the bar on productivity and capitalizing on attendee experience. Visit Orlando: How do you define innovation and what are you doing to infuse this into the meetings you plan? Innovation is anything that raises that level of expediency and accuracy.

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Thomas Edison Can Teach Associations About Innovation

Smooth The Path

Additionally, many of his philosophies and methods for innovation are still directly applicable. Innovation at the Edison labs was not an it-can-only-be-made-here endeavor. Need more resources on how to innovate at your association? Here is a handful of things he did 100 years ago that we can learn from even now.

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The Case for Board Diversity

Associations Now

In a piece on that subject published last week at the Stanford Social Innovation Review , nonprofit professionals Katie Smith Milway and Susan Wolf Ditkoff point to a few examples from the space about how and why they frame those conversations on their boards. These ideas aren’t magic fixes.