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Maximizing Member Management: Why It’s Time to Switch from Spreadsheets to an AMS

MemberClicks

By using targeted and personalized communication, you can create more meaningful connections with members. All member-related tasks — from keeping databases updated to planning events, and handling communications and billing — are completed all in one system. “We transitioned to MemberClicks after outgrowing our old tech setup.

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Storytelling for Grant Writers: 10 Tactical & Stylistic Tips

Achieve

Whether it’s an emailed donation appeal, social media post, or old-school flyer on a bulletin board, the best nonprofit communications help your audience relate to and position themselves within your mission’s story. But what about some of your highest-impact communications— grant proposals ? Be mindful of passive voice.

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Leading a Staff That Works Everywhere

Associations Now

According to ARCUS’ website , its headquarters is in Fairbanks, Alaska. Others are located at other remote points elsewhere in Alaska, as well as in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. So much communication is through facial expression and tone of voice,” he says. But good technology can’t help with everything.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20

Reid All About it

Check out the midnight sun and aurora borealis, paddling down the Chena River, or dog mushing in these 360-view videos from Fairbanks, Alaska. Discover the 5 levels of subconscious communication to avoid self-sabotage and seize opportunities. Good eats—skip down to the list of free webinars if you’re not into cooking. Thu 6/4 at 1 p.m.

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Josh Earnest’s Four Tips for Advocacy in Divisive Times

Associations Now

Trump has put a priority on communicating with his base, and that has served him fairly well politically,” he says. Earnest himself points to Obama taking the reins of the White House Instagram account during a 2015 Alaska visit to speak out about climate change. The medium matters less than the message.

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SCD Group: Chicken, Bus, Holland America & Associations: How do.

SCD Group

Last month, our Holland America (@HALcruises) tour bus broke down while we were driving the Top of the World highway (TOTWH) from Chicken, ALaska, to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. Chicken, Alaska, an isolated (100+ miles from nearest cell signal) "way station" of 37 people is a hard hour drive from Tok, the nearest village.

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West Coast Credit Union Groups See Strength in Numbers

Associations Now

It’s an extension of the industry’s collaborative nature, said Lynn Heider, vice president of communications for NWCUA. I think that we in the Northwest have a lot of great content, we have a lot to offer,” said Heider, whose organization represents about 150 credit unions in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington.

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