Nonprofit Blog Carnival June 2015: Motivation for the Nonprofit Nation
Wild Apricot
JUNE 29, 2015
Want to find out how to motivate your volunteers, donors, supporters and board members? Check out our Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up for June.
Wild Apricot
JUNE 29, 2015
Want to find out how to motivate your volunteers, donors, supporters and board members? Check out our Nonprofit Blog Carnival round-up for June.
Reid All About it
JULY 1, 2015
Every year, when I register for the ASAE Annual Meeting, I check the box to receive emails from exhibitors. As a writer/marketer, I like seeing how vendors in my community use email marketing. Some of them do it well, but some, oh boy, they really blow it. The list ASAE provides to exhibitors includes association execs and staff as well as consultant members like myself.
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Aaron Wolowiec
JUNE 30, 2015
Allison McClintick, CEO/leader development specialist, FlightLead Consulting. Q & A with Allison McClintick , CEO/leader development specialist, FlightLead Consulting. Q: Would you rather sky dive, bungee jump or climb to the top of the Golden Gate Bridge, and why? A: If the goal is to put myself into cardiac arrest, I would say all three! All those choices seem equally terrifying because I am totally not OK with being in the air like that!
Potomac Core
JUNE 28, 2015
Improving Association Retention Performance. What Association doesn’t want to slow down its Member Resignations and improve retention performance? Member losses are difficult especially when an Association loses larger members. Yet the painful lessons from these resignations can help your organization reposition itself and drive accelerated member engagement and achieve improved operating performance.
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Wild Apricot
JUNE 30, 2015
June was a big month for us! We made great strides with our software and community offerings. Read more about what we've been up to!
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Aaron Wolowiec
JUNE 29, 2015
The other day, while looking for an app for my 7 year old daughter, I was amazed at the amount of options in the app store – everything from shopping to financial planning to fun, 7-year-old girl games. So, of course, shortly thereafter I downloaded the Kroger mobile app, to which I’m now addicted. As a consumer, a mother and a working professional, I’m addicted to my iPhone.
Jamie Notter
JUNE 30, 2015
While I scoffed a bit at this summer's HBR Cover story because it started with the stale mantra of "HR needs a seat at the leadership table," I do want to draw attention to one of the more interesting points in the article, which focused on the need for organizations to be flexible around their human capital: Responding to the external environment today sometimes requires leaders with capabilities that weren't previously cultivated, such as knowledge of algorithms, or psychological comfort with
Optimist Consulting
JULY 1, 2015
I was interested to read the second annual membership organisations’ survey from accountancy and business advisory firm, PKF Littlejohn, which shows renewed optimism for the sector again this year. These are the three insights that stood out for me: 1. 24% have introduced more member services for a higher fee. It’s positive news to see that organisations are developing their membership package and exciting that membership organisations are now being bold enough to cover the costs of these new se
Eric Lanke
JUNE 29, 2015
I'm describing in a series of blog posts the different elements that make up my association's Strategy Agenda--a new term I've introduced in my organization to represent the essential work product of our Board of Directors. It is comprised of four distinct elements, each one nesting in the one that precedes it, and describes what we want to achieve and how we will measure our success in achieving it.
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KiKi L'Italien's Acronym Soup
JUNE 28, 2015
We've all heard the statistics about driving engagement on social media by using pictures, but questions abound about how to use this information to really move the needle on social media outcomes. Every morning I walk my seven-year-old daughter to her bus stop. We talk about nature, comment on the things we see along the way, and look both ways before crossing the street.
Association Adviser
JULY 2, 2015
Are our jobs so awful that we prefer to "live" for only two of the seven days of a week? The daily grind of paper pushing and dealing with tough bosses is hard, but is that worth wasting 70 percent. For more about this topic, click on the headline.
Optimist Consulting
JULY 1, 2015
I was interested to read the second annual membership organisations’ survey from accountancy and business advisory firm, PKF Littlejohn, which shows renewed optimism for the sector again this year. These are the three insights that stood out for me: 1. 24% have introduced more member services for a higher fee. It’s positive news to see that organisations are developing their membership package and exciting that membership organisations are now being bold enough to cover the costs of these new se
Associations Now
JUNE 29, 2015
Innovation is about ideas and passions, but ISACA succeeds with it by putting research first. As prompts for innovation go, being stuck in traffic isn’t the worst thing. Earlier this year, Timothy J. Mason, chief marketing officer at ISACA, was listening to a news report during his morning commute about the upcoming State of the Union address.
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Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 2, 2015
Yahoo, our conference attendance is up 30% from last year. Whoa, don’t be fooled by that conference data! Too many organizations pat their leaders on the back for increased attendance, selling out the show floor or selling all of their sponsorship packages. We need to use discernment to look deeper into what that conference data is really telling us.
SCD Group
JULY 2, 2015
Leading from the Outside-In By Maddie Grant via SocialFish.org Perhaps you and your organization grapple with some of the questions that preoccupied the executives I interviewed for my book as they contemplated how to take their organizations to a next phase. Should we create radically different membership and business models? Should we go “global”?
Associations Now
JUNE 30, 2015
A Paywall Idea Worth Watching Last week, the tech site Pando took an experimental step with its latest site relaunch. The website now has a hard paywall put on board—one that costs $10 each month to break—but one fascinating element of this paywall is that free readers can get around it if they have a friend with a subscription. “If there’s something you want to read but find it locked, just hit up a member and ask them to unlock it for you,” the site’s Paul Carr and Sarah Lacy
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2024 Association Survey Results Report For the 10th year, association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s annual survey. Read the 2024 survey results report to see how your association compares: Top Challenges Retention Rates Non-Renewal Reasons Automatic Renewals Reinstatement Strategies Member Engagement Changes & Strategies Why Members Join Non-Dues Revenue Sources Dues Increases, and more
Velvet Chainsaw
JULY 1, 2015
Imagine a radio station that played adult contemporary, classical, country, dance, electronic, golden oldies, heavy metal, news, pop, R&B, rock, southern gospel and talk alternating between each. What if this commercial radio station tried to appeal to everyone’s musical taste as well as news and talk radio? How successful would it be? It wouldn’t work, you say.
SCD Group
JUNE 29, 2015
Editor’s Note: Last Wednesday, I was inducted into the Ag Public Relations Hall of Fame. What follows are the tips from my career that I shared during the induction ceremony. Providing background for each tip makes this post extra long. but what the heck, how often do you get inducted into a Hall of Fame?! I’m going to share a few stories that I hope provide useful tips for your professional career.
Plexus Consulting
JULY 3, 2015
By Steven M. Worth, President at Plexus Consulting Group, LLC This news lead caught my attention: “Supermarket giant Kroger Co. (KR) is winning the war against lengthy checkout lines with a powerful weapon: infrared cameras long used by the military and law-enforcement to track people.” Aren’t those association managers of membership organizations who feel they are offering their members something special by eschewing technology in favor of more personal human interaction gambling that a persona
Associations Now
JULY 1, 2015
There are a ton of nonprofits, and some of them have surprising backstories. Can you suss out your made-up associations from your real ones? Here at Associations Now , we cover the gamut of associations, and once you get beyond the usual suspects, like the American Bar Association and the National Retail Federation, they often go in directions you’d never expect.
Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker
Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.
Velvet Chainsaw
JUNE 30, 2015
We’re very blessed to have an incredible team here at VCC! But, today marks the final (official) day of one of our MVP’s, Donna Kastner. Donna is a go getter! Prior to joining us, she developed a business/community concept called Retirepreneur. (Pretty cool, right?) She’s leaving our company so that she can invest more of her time making her vision a reality.
Associations Now
JULY 1, 2015
6 The number of shark-attack-related fatalities in the U.S. since 2010, according to data from the Global Shark Attack File. By comparison, U.S. Lifesaving Association data show that there were 556 drowning deaths in the U.S. during the same time period—453 of those occurred at unguarded beaches. The media attention brought on by the number of violent shark attacks this summer has given the U.S.
Associations Now
JULY 2, 2015
For the third time in the last eight months, an attempted space shuttle launch ended in disaster. Though discouraging, the Commercial Spaceflight Federation maintains a positive outlook on its industry’s future. Who’s up for a trip to space? If you’ve paid any attention to the news over the last week, you’d probably take a pass for now—and maybe forever.
Associations Now
JUNE 30, 2015
The president’s plan to expand the pool of overtime recipients through a rule change drew negative responses from key business groups this week. The change comes on the heels of a Supreme Court ruling that left the Affordable Care Act in place. Associations are working overtime to take on a controversial overtime plan. The plan, announced Monday night on the Huffington Post blog by President Barack Obama, would expand the maximum threshold for overtime protections from $23,660 per year to
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