Mariner Management

MARCH 2, 2021

This year’s theme is Celebrate Service, and you can download logos and other resources from the Point of Light to help you mark this year. Consider nominating them for the Daily Point of Light. To celebrate, we’ve looked back at past posts that are chocked full of ideas and inspiration for showing the love to your volunteers.

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Ungrated

AUGUST 31, 2021

Each year, CAI highlights the efforts of individuals who go above and beyond to demonstrate exemplary service, leadership, excellence, and dedication to support and advance community association governance, management, and living as well as CAI programs and initiatives. Skiba, CAE, CAI’s chief executive officer.

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SilkStart

APRIL 12, 2017

April 12th, 2017 (Victoria, BC) – SilkStart, a leading Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) Membership Management Platform, is excited to announce our selection as a finalist for the 16th Annual VIATEC Technology Awards in the category of Technology Company of the Year (1-10 employees). Momentum Dashboard.

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Associations Now

JANUARY 23, 2019

The streaming service is the first member of the film industry trade group that isn’t a traditional studio. When it comes to streaming services, the Motion Picture Association of America isn’t looking at them blindfolded anymore—it knows they’re worthy of the group’s membership.

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Spark Consulting

AUGUST 15, 2013

In the end, only two standing committee remain (Nominating and Audit). The rest of the volunteer work of the association is done by task forces who come together, do the work, and disband. Download your free copy at [link]. volunteering whitepaper Peggy Hoffman'

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Virtual

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

In the business world, disruption is generally defined as an effort to take a product or service that is typically expensive and thus restricted to small market segment and, through innovation, drastically reduce the cost of delivery of that same product or service so that it is readily available to a much larger marketplace.

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Idea Architects

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

But similar conversions occur in a variety of settings: Fundraisers try to convert believers from nominal annual fund contributors to more significant levels of donation, investing them deeper and deeper in the organization's mission. Salespeople try to turn browsers and window shoppers into purchases.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 24, 2023

Episodes are published Monday mornings in both audio and video format on most podcast services. Episodes are published Monday mornings in both audio and video format on most podcast services. Host: Association Insights In Old Town Speakers: Jennifer Baker, program management expert formerly with ASAE Business Services, Inc.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

As part of a strategic plan, the association suggested several criteria for nominating and confirming ambassadors. ambassadors , the American Foreign Service Association this week released new guidelines detailing necessary qualities of nominees. Amid criticism over several of President Obama’s recent nominees for U.S.

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Eric Lanke

SEPTEMBER 7, 2015

Now in my last year of service, having chaired the Board last year, I have the somewhat traditional job given to many past chairs--chairing the Nominating Committee. I've written before about my experiences on the Board of the Wisconsin Society of Association Executives.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Data can help associations figure out which programs and services are growing and which are declining. That subscription can be free or charge a nominal fee. “They get people in the room who are important for networking in their industry, even if they don’t become members.”. They may be the largest user of something you have.

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Aaron Wolowiec

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Again this year, Event Garde has been nominated for the best meeting planning company for the Michigan Meetings + Events 2016 Best of Michigan Awards. Here’s what others have to say: “Aaron and his staff at Event Garde provided first-rate service to our nonprofit organization. And it shows. Click here to vote.

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 2, 2017

A few years ago, we created a structure we call Strategic Task Forces that have helped us not only identify viable candidates for future Board service, but get them plugged into Board activities and decision-making from a very early stage. For my own association, the answer is (a). No one is trying to describe or present it to them.

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Associations Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

BoatUS, which boasts more than 500,000 members today, offers a wide array of services, including insurance, financing and refinancing, lobbying, safety programs, and a magazine. The group also offers the country’s largest boat-towing service. Nominate your choices online: [link] #assnchat pic.twitter.com/mMqRSHzEZf.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 9, 2013

In addition to the traditional, time-intensive style of volunteer service, offer project-based entry points that require less of a time commitment. Is the next generation of members willing to put in time serving on committee after committee in hopes of getting a board position and then, maybe one day, being nominated for an officer position?

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SCD Group

AUGUST 21, 2014

As a result, programs and services were not driven by a strategic vision and many were not sustainable. Also, robust processes and procedures were developed and implemented for a re-energized Nominating Committee. Board members themselves had very little interest or discipline with respect to governance structure.

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MemberClicks

MARCH 14, 2024

They can serve in outreach as speakers at area service clubs. Perhaps membership board members can be nominated, recruited, and personally invited to take part. Member Involvement Member involvement can include everyting from communications to volunteer service and support for fundraisers. Track how active your membership is.

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AssociationChat

AUGUST 19, 2021

Thurston is an Emmy-nominated host who has produced for The Daily Show, advised the Obama White House and written the New York Times bestseller How to Be Black. The Association Solution Demos featured 40 product and service presentations from 33 companies providing tangible solutions and the latest technologies to increase productivity.

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Beth Kanter

MAY 3, 2017

L4G is especially dedicated to hearing from those whose voices are often least heard, such as families visiting food pantries, youth attending afterschool academic and enrichment programs, residents living in public housing, recent immigrants using legal-aid services, and individuals participating in job-training programs.

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Reid All About it

APRIL 14, 2023

Host: Product Design Community Facilitator: Tom Lietz, Emmy-nominated producer and director Fri 4/14 at 12 p.m. Episodes are published Monday mornings in both audio and video format on most podcast services. Our topic this month is Association Storytelling. More info/register. AI & Community: Opportunity or Risk? 1 CAE credit.

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Associations Now

APRIL 4, 2019

That discomfort was felt at CinemaCon this week, where the streaming service—whether by name or by implication—was a primary topic of discussion among the audience, including members of the organization putting on the event, the National Association of Theatre Owners.

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Associations Now

MARCH 21, 2016

Learn how your association can give members the service they deserve. While the purpose is to represent members, some organizations have fallen into poor customer service habits that, if not fixed soon, will alienate the very members needing help. “Customer service is not a department,” Hyken says.

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Association Adviser

JULY 31, 2018

Simply applying for an award or submitting a nomination helps an association reflect on how it might improve its benefits to members. Knowing that your association is skilled and recognized for its work and services encourages member loyalty and drives sales for association publications. Increase member and advertiser loyalty.

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Eric Lanke

AUGUST 6, 2012

At a recent nominating committee meeting, we realized that the well was beginning to run dry of “qualified” candidates for Board service. This is one of the strategies that I, myself, have had some success with. Here's the story of my association's recent experiment with one-to-one recruiting.

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Plexus Consulting

AUGUST 1, 2012

A selection from Origami in the Boardroom and Other Misadventures in Nonprofit Governance© By Neil Bohnert The next item on the agenda was a preliminary report by the chairman of the Nominating Committee based on a board resolution adopted several months earlier. Well then”, he exclaimed, “we have a full slate.” Absolutely.

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Association Success

JULY 12, 2018

There is a correlation between awards and recognition provided to women and the amount of biases that exist in the nomination process, the structure of the awards, and the makeup of the committee. Examples of grindstone words include hardworking, meticulous, methodical; teaching words include instruct, course, service, or lecture.

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Associations Now

MARCH 16, 2015

But though CEA has a sizable budget, one of the world’s largest tradeshows (the Consumer Electronics Show ), and a high-wattage board , Shapiro doesn’t dwell much on a convoluted nominating process or on lengthy orientation sessions for new volunteer leaders. First, the criteria. The toughest criterion on that list to satisfy?

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Idea Architects

JULY 7, 2013

But similar conversions occur in a variety of settings: Fundraisers try to convert believers from nominal annual fund contributors to more significant levels of donation, investing them deeper and deeper in the organization''s mission. Salespeople try to turn browsers and window shoppers into purchases.

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Committee Products Leadership Process 60

Associations Now

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Concerns that users have had about safety and quality of sharing services are declining through better user rating systems and social media integration. Apps can dissolve the planner’s role and influence in arranging core services like rooms and transport. Nominations are now open: [link] #assnchat pic.twitter.com/6x2lQ8rEEr.

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Associations Now

AUGUST 18, 2019

Bluebeard Chef and Co-Owner Abbi Merriss has been nominated for a James Beard Foundation chef award for four consecutive years: 2016–19. Meeting planners looking to add a service project to their event should know the foundation enlists volunteers to serve meals to the children.

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Indianapolis San Francisco New York Course 77

Associations Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The DC Tax Revision Commission presented its final plan to the DC City Council to revamp the District’s tax code, including a new services tax on city businesses based on the number of people they employ. As expected, it contains a new services tax that would impose a $100 annual fee per employee on all city employers.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The MTV Awards program, established in 1984, grew out of an educational event that had gone stale and gives CCS the opportunity to call attention to the community’s unsung heroes, who volunteer with organizations providing legal assistance, adoption support, aid to the homeless, and other services. They did it by honoring their volunteers.

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Cleveland Process Education Video 40

Reid All About it

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Without doubt, the Nominating Committee is the most important to the association. Presenters: Teri Carden, founder, ReviewMyAMS. Dave Will, founder, PropFuel. Thu 10/11 at 12:30 p.m. – Association Leadership: Assembling Great Governance Teams. 1 CAE credit. More info/register. Hosts: Matrix Group and Review My AMS.

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 13, 2013

John Koskinen, the Obama administration’s pick to head the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), said during a two-day confirmation hearing before the Senate Finance Committee this week that he would work to restore public trust in the agency and improve employee morale and performance. If confirmed, Koskinen would serve a five-year term.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 16, 2014

The app is so good that it has been nominated for a Webby ! It has also have won several awards, including the SXSW Dewey Winburne Award for Community Service and the SXSW People’s Choice Award. And, now the app has been nominated for a Webby – please vote for it !

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SCD Group

OCTOBER 28, 2012

Member companies select their board representation and there are no term limits on board service. Roger Wentz, CAE, President and CEO of the American Traffic Safety Services Association: “ATSSA has always had a two year term for the chair. They are nominated by a nominating committee and elected by the full membership.

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Associations Now

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

In an effort to diversify television writers’ rooms, the Writers Guild Of America, East (WGAE), the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), and the New York City Department of Small Business Services have announced a new six-month writing fellowship.

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