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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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What to Do When Membership Is Booming?

Associations Now

For decades, RIA focused mainly on the auto industry in Detroit. How is it changing the tactics you use to recruit, engage, and retain members? “But as an association that has been around for 43 years, we need to make sure that we are indeed changing with the industry and the times.”. Have you seen significant membership growth?

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Creating a Sustainable Organization

SCD Group

Here are the highlights of the USA Today story: The Detroit Red Wings and the San Antonio Spurs play different sports in different leagues on different surfaces in different states, but make no mistake: They''re the same team. which requires constant search and recruitment. A talented staff. Creating a tradition of success.

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Advance Reading for #ASAE15

Associations Now

Heading to the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit? Session: “Referral Marketing: The Key to Millennial Recruitment,” 11:30 a.m. Read: “ Why Referral Marketing Could Be the Key to Millennial Recruitment ,” by Christine Umbrell, asaecenter.org, July 20*. Can't Be There?

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Bar Association Welcomes Diversity at the Top With New President

Associations Now

In comments to The Washington Post , the New Jersey-based lawyer noted that her goal was to boost the recruitment of women and minorities into the legal field. Brown’s appointment comes more than a decade after the ABA elected its first black president, former Detroit Mayor Dennis Archer.

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Joint Membership: The “Special Sauce” for Chapter Relations

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These types of associations are also more likely to recruit high-quality volunteers and see higher levels of membership retention, he says. The biggest advantage to joint membership is that national and chapter dues are rolled together in one payment, and typically there’s a savings passed on to the member.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: Thinking Differently About.

Idea Architects

Theres an i nteresting post (and the beginning of a conversation) going on over at the Acronym blog , focusing on volunteer recruitment and diversity. 15, Detroit, OACS-MACS Fall Conference. Monday, October 17, 2011. Thinking Differently About Volunteering. Here was the comment I posted. 28, Columbia, CAI-SC Annual Conference.