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15th Anniversary Thank You!

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Could we – a married couple with three sons to raise – open a business to create a new option for small, chapter based membership organizations and succeed? It started on a dare. Heck why not? In January 2002, Peter and I opened the doors of Mariner Management.

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Ditch the Ladder - Embrace the Continuum

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Volunteers for all types of organizations are asking for change - change in how they volunteer, when they can volunteer and where they volunteer. Organizations that are responding are doing so by re-imaging their volunteer program. They are asking for flexibility in their volunteering.

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HQ & Chapters: Curing the Love-Hate Relationship

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You may refer to HQ as “national” or “parent organization” or use a multitude of different terms to refer to your geographic partners. It’s one of the quintessential love-hate relationships. HQ and its Chapters. Regardless, the relationship is often one fraught with varying degrees of mistrust, ineffective communication and mixed signals.

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Finding Micro-Volunteering Jobs to Offer

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Providing Micro-volunteering options is more than nice, its a critical if you want to build your organization's volunteer muscle, scout new talent and engage the busy boomer, the elusive Xer and the expressive millennial. Here's one approach to finding the right jobs.

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Should chapters get liability insurance? An expert weighs in.

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Question: We are a XXX organization for XXX and have more than 100 components (we call them chapters) in cities across the country. They are all 501c6 organizations with their own articles, bylaws and D&O insurance. Question of the day: do they also need liability insurance?

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Should chapters get liability insurance? An expert weights in.

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Question: We are a XXX organization for XXX and have more than 100 components (we call them chapters) in cities across the country. They are all 501c6 organizations with their own articles, bylaws and D&O insurance. Question of the day: do they also need liability insurance?

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Let's Make Some Noise

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In his blog posting Eight Ways to Make Some Noise-Get Everyone Talking , author and speaker Thomas McKee of Volunteer Power offers tips on how to “make noise” about what your organization is doing, which in turn gets the word out about what your volunteers are doing for the organization.

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