Reid All About it

OCTOBER 6, 2023

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. The organization’s outgoing treasurer describes the financial situation as “dire.”

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Eric Lanke

OCTOBER 24, 2016

As part of that adoption, they wrote their own Governance Policy, which attempted to spell out, as clearly as possible, the differing roles between the Board and the staff executive when it came to strategy and execution. Here are the actual clauses from that document: “Ends” determination is a pivotal duty of the Board.

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Tom Morrison

DECEMBER 5, 2013

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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Velvet Chainsaw

JUNE 3, 2014

ELEVATE 2014 had two primary strategic priorities: Participant professional development. Don’t hide your conference focus in strategic planning documents. Recruit volunteers and leaders to help embed connexity and professional development in the meeting design. What ideas has ELEVATE 2014 sparked for you in your meeting design?

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Associations Now

DECEMBER 9, 2013

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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Beth Kanter

APRIL 8, 2014

The first is The Giving Day Play books which a collective archive of formally documented processes, examples, check lists, and case studies planning and hosting giving days. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? This learning approach has two ways to capture knowledge.

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Beth Kanter

APRIL 10, 2014

The laboratory gives Greenpeace and its partners a space to design, test, iterative, and roll out new strategies and techniques for participatory campaigns or what has been called “People Powered.” Staffing Support :: advising on staffing structures, integration efforts, and hands-on support with talent recruitment and hiring.

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