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Help Millennials Get Jobs: Offer Online Learning & Career Resources

WBT Systems

Every association wants to recruit millennial members, but the cost of membership may exceed a millennial’s budget. According to the 2018 Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report from Marketing General Incorporated (MGI), the median basic annual membership dues is $212. Millennial member engagement. Soft skills.

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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

Associations Now

Launching a chapter network has helped PEN America, a literary organization with almost 100 years of history, recruit new members and reinvent opportunities for member engagement at the local level. Last month, PEN America announced a member expansion plan to create regional chapters for the first time in its history.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 9.21.18

Reid All About it

I went from stunning grueling experiences—hiking 14 miles down the North Rim of the Grand Canyon, staying overnight at Phantom Ranch at the bottom, hiking 10 miles up the South Rim the next day, and more hiking in Sedona AZ (Bear Mountain was the highlight)—to the intense reality of preparing for a direct hit by Hurricane Florence.