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Financial impacts: What the costs of COVID-19 mean for community associations

Ungrated

Higher operating expenses and unanticipated costs due to the ongoing global crisis pose challenges to association budget projections, reserves planning, and maintenance requirements. While companies can’t expect to pass all of these costs to their clients, some percentage must be recovered to remain operational. Comment below.

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2016: An Association Blogging and Podcasting Odyssey

Spark Consulting

I remember participating in my first bloggercon at ASAE in a sunny plaza in San Diego in 2008, shortly after I’d launched Thanks For Playing, the precursor to the Spark blog, with about 30 other association professionals, sharing our thoughts about how to use this new platform to strengthen our industry and our community.

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5 ways to communicate the value of your membership

Optimist Consulting

Here a 5 ways to communicate the value of membership to your audience: Add a monetary value to your benefits – if you can, explain what the cost of the benefit would be if they had to pay directly. The Museum of Contemporary Art in San Diego has a visually appealing grid to help members understand the different levels.

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Membership and Chapter Growth is a Team Effort at AGC of America

Association Adviser

One serves San Diego and one serves the remainder of the state. The “Why Join” campaign is one of our most recent and uses digital tools such as website visitor tracking to generate potential member leads. These 13 chapters encompass different membership bases. On the other hand, AGC has just two chapters in California.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.22.21

Reid All About it

I’ve seen people in ASAE Collaborate and other forums ask about vaccination (and negative test) verification tools. Presenters: Carl Winston, Founding Director of the Payne School of Hospitality Management at San Diego State University. talking about the return to the workplace—definitely worth the 33 minutes. . CMP credit.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.17.20

Reid All About it

He also addresses unconscious bias and privilege: “We need to see and acknowledge the costs and missed opportunities that the biases at work in our personal, professional, and societal lives impose before we can address them.” Joe Buehrle, vice president of organizational planning for Social Advocates for Youth, San Diego.

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