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How to Drive High Donor Retention Rates with Text Messaging

Achieve

Use the following donor stewardship strategies in your texts: Provide updates on your mission: Let your supporters know how much was raised from your most recent fundraising campaign, how your newest community program is making a difference, or the results of this past year’s hard work with a link to your annual report.

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Tapping Into Attendee Expertise For Community Service Projects

Associations Now

Then there’s the American Academy of Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery, which teamed up with the nonprofit Neighborhood House during its 2016 Annual Meeting in San Diego. A final example, which I stumbled across in Convene magazine , comes from the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA).

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Facilitation Friday #23: Going in Different Directions

Idea Architects

Whether it is an internal team meeting or a small group conversation as part of a convention workshop, sometimes people arent clear on the purpose or the instructions for why they are there and what is supposed to happen. I find moving next to the person reporting out (rather than calling on them from the front of the room) seems to help.

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. Katie manages a team of six across three functional areas: editorial/content strategy, public relations and marketing. That skill set is what I look for in members of our team. Anything more frequent is cumbersome.

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Meetings Groups Merge To Further Sustainability In The Events Industry

Associations Now

Founded in 2003, GMIC’s mission is to transform the global meetings industry through sustainability, while CIC aims to facilitate an exchange of information within the industry. Sustainability is an important issue for convention centers around the globe, according to the “Green Venue Report” released late last year.

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The Fight to Fill Out the Periodic Table

Associations Now

IUPAC, the nongovernmental entity that focuses on organizing and determining standards in chemistry, announced that four new elements—113, 115, 117, and 118—had been discovered by scientific teams working in Japan, Russia, and the United States. The complex work created an element that had a half-life of just 1/1000 of a second.

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Printing Trade Group ‘Right-Sizes,’ Restructures as Industry Faces Major Change

Associations Now

Employment in the industry has fallen off by more than 200,000 since 2003, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Last week, the group reduced its staff size by 15, according to a report on an industry website. Change is never easy, but we must embrace it to move forward,” Makin said.