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Association Brain Food: 10.6.23

Reid All About it

Another take on the young professional recruitment challenge comes from James Young of Product Community. The writing has been on the wall for a long time—follow the link in the story to the 2014 memo written by a former ED. Next gen membership #2. Association staff retention. Content marketing. Fri 10/6 at 12:30 p.m.

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A New Perspective on Work

Association Success

million since 2014. Associations that cultivate a team perspective, focus on incorporating and communicating with their freelancers can build more cohesive workgroups, improve communication and boost enthusiasm. One of the current challenges is that our business systems aren’t structured to identify and recruit freelance talent.

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Don't Go Another Year With a Board With Old Thinking. Make 2014 Count For Something

Tom Morrison

One of the biggest challenges associations face today is motivating and inspiring their boards to face facts and take steps to move their association’s communication strategy, value propositions, and member service models into the future. The problem, you see, is that many board members believe they are in the membership business.

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Study: Most Nonprofits Do Content Marketing, But How Well?

Associations Now

That’s according to 2014 Nonprofit Content Marketing Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends [PDF], a new report by the Content Marketing Institute and Blackbaud. That result surprised BlackBaud’s Frank Barry, who said the percentage seems high, considering that only about a quarter of organizations have documented their content strategy.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day?

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Healthier Association, Higher Membership Performance

Associations Now

And the document that was created … was our roadmap.” Some of the causes were outdated communications methods, stale member and prospect data, and complacency in customer service. By the end of April 2014, NAADAC had increased membership 48 percent from a year prior, from 6,600 to a seven-year high of 9,799.

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