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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

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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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Lessons From MCON on Millennial Engagement and Membership

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And, although there wasn’t a single speaker on the stage who came from an association background (a missed opportunity if you ask me), many of the conversations gravitated around the same question that association leaders often ask: How do we engage millennials and get them to be a part of our cause?