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Why Millennials Join Associations and What Associations Can Do to Keep Them

Association Adviser

Despite popular sentiment that millennials are disinterested in joining traditional professional associations, young people are uniquely positioned to benefit from association membership in important ways. Don’t make the mistake of lumping all millennials together or thinking they’re not joiners. .

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Attracting Millennials: Are you thinking age-appropriately?

Association Adviser

Attracting millennials to your association requires thinking about the different life stages they are living through – and marketing to them appropriately. A lot of articles out there dispense quick advice about how to attract millennials to your association’s membership: reach them on social media! Younger vs. Older Millennials.

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Report: Millennials Rank Education, Healthcare and Employment as Top Election Issues

Achieve

New research from Achieve investigates millennials’ ongoing cause engagement behaviors during a presidential election year. Today Achieve, in partnership with the Case Foundation, released the second wave of research from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report. The second wave of data surveyed millennials from June through August 2016.

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University Fundraising: 3 Ways to Increase Millennial Alumni Giving

Achieve

I’m a proud alum, and I currently work for Achieve, a research and campaigns agency that helps universities and organizations understand Millennial giving. My response echoed the ones I heard from many other Millennial alumni. First, the good news: Approximately 73% of Millennial alumni intend to give to their alma mater in the future.

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Reach Your Fundraising Goals By Embracing a Millennial Mindset

Achieve

While we talked through our plan one last time, a team member mentioned an article about how Millennials are using technology and social media to change the way nonprofits do fundraising. I thought to myself, “My three kids are Millennials, and I’m constantly having to give them money. THE MILLENNIAL MINDSET. Millennial mindset.

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3 Myths About Millennial Members Get Busted

Associations Now

Forget the studies you’ve read about the mindset of millennials. You have a much better understanding of the entire millennial generation (those of us born between 1981 and 2000) and what we bring to the table. history, as was pointed out by Pew Research Center’s Millennials in Adulthood survey earlier this year.

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The Young Professional – Tracking down the Future Leaders of Your Association

Association Adviser

If you’re not a millennial – loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000 (ages 18 to 38 years old today) – you may feel that you are unqualified to understand what motivates them. There is no such thing as a failed strategy, only leaders who fail to shift their strategy when supplied with evidence it could be even better.

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