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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.25.22

Reid All About it

Check out the new page on my site, Association Brain Food Resources , dedicated to feeding your brain with information from our industry partners about association technology, membership, data management, cybersecurity, non-dues revenue, and more. Learn how the heart influences your perceptions, emotions, intuition, and health.

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Wednesday Buzz: How to Balance Social-Commercial Hybrids

Associations Now

.” Battilana and her coauthors from Boston College and Stanford Business School found that the tensions between the two sides are actually needed to form a successful organization. When an organization begins to focus too heavily on its mission, it may miss out on crucial revenue.

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Serve Versus Sell: How to Negotiate Associations’ Dual Roles

Associations Now

These nonprofit organizations aim to prepare disadvantaged individuals to re-enter the workforce by employing them in a for-profit economic operation, from which the revenues are used to support training and rehabilitation services for those employees. A Duel of Dual roles. Where would membership fit? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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Blockbuster week for newspapers: what it means for trade associations

SCD Group

First came the announcement that the owner of the Boston Red Sox had purchased the Boston Globe from the New York Times (NYT). The New York Times purchased Boston Globe for $1.1 Companies will be looking at how to reduce dues payments in their trade associations. Billion 20 years ago. Industries continue to change.

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Three Difficult Conversations Meeting Planners May Encounter

Associations Now

Know the current financial picture and what the breakeven point is in terms of revenue, because you will likely be asked both right away. You don’t expect something like the Boston Marathon bombing to ever happen, but there are so many different things that could happen that could impede a meeting or create problems.

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Association Brain Food: 12.9.22

Reid All About it

How to Create a Member-Centric Community. Learn how (and why) to put members at the front, right, and center of your community, how to create an intentional human-focused user experience, how to map your members’ community journeys, and best practices for harnessing storytelling and user-generated content. .

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Small, But Mighty: A Resource for Small Nonprofit Leaders

Beth Kanter

Actually, according to the Urban Institute, 88% of nonprofits had revenue between $100,000 and $3 million in 2015! As our small nonprofit working group thought about how to make the PI feasible for small nonprofits, we wrestled with several hard questions. How small is small? Below, we share some that came up repeatedly.