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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

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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. There’s no denying that we’ve been fairly New York City-centric in terms of programming since we were founded in 1922,” she says. “We

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Pope Francis: Catholic Student Associations Capitalize on Papal Visit

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The University of Pennsylvania’s Penn Catholic Student Association (PCSA) found that displaying a cardboard cutout of the pontiff during a recent recruitment event drew large numbers of prospects. People came and took selfies with him, came to talk to us,” Diana Orlandi, the association’s president, told the Times.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.14.19

Reid All About it

Good eats: One of the best dishes I’ve ever made in my Instant Pot: pressure cooker spicy Korean pork shoulder from Melissa Clark at the New York Times. Host: Dallas-Fort Worth Association Executives (DFWAE). Membership Recruitment Tips and Tricks. (Suzanne Rowan Kelleher, Forbes ). Alison Best, CDME, Partner at CFObd.

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Happiness is Contagious?

Association Okie

The September 13, 2009 New York Times Magazine had a fascinating article (www.nytimes.com) by Clive Thompson. On the airport shuttle in Dallas, walking to the hotel in New Orleans or a shopping mall in St. And we may need to consider focusing recruitment efforts on the happier folks. Louis, I see someone I know).