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24 Things I Wish I Knew Before Entering the Nonprofit World

Wild Apricot

I asked Shawna, and a dozen other seasoned nonprofit pros what they wish they knew before signing on to work for a nonprofit. Here are the 22 things that they hammered home.

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Here comes Google for Jobs.

YourMembership

Google CEO Sundar Pichai recently announced at Google I/O 2017 the emergence of Google for Jobs, the internet tech company’s latest initiative designed to connect job seekers and employers. What does this mean to you and your career website? Above all, know YourMembership has got you covered. We’ve been in ongoing talks with Google’s head. The post Here comes Google for Jobs. appeared first on YourMembership.

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12 Ways to Add Extra Value to Your Online Courses

WBT Systems

The adult education market is becoming increasingly crowded as for-profits discover the once exclusive domain of higher education, trade associations, and professional societies. Besides offering high-caliber curriculum and instructors, how can you add extra value to your online courses and ensure they stand out from the pack? The answer: find ways to supplement your curriculum with valuable extras.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.16.17

Reid All About it

Your weekly list of free webinars and events for the association community… If your association plans to get a new association management system (AMS) in the next few years, or you want to learn more about AMS selection and implementation, or you just have an abnormal interest (hello!) in AMSes in general, you must get yourself to the next AMS Fest.

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Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Association Member Education

Unlock More Profit and Smarter Packaging for Member Learning Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your association’s bottom line. Our research has shown a clear correlation between high program maturity (and ROI!) and choosing the right monetization strategy. This eBook contains clear, actionable ways to approach packaging and pricing models that will help your association grow revenue, improve profitability, and drive expansion into new markets.

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4 Key Ways For Board Members To Lead Fundraising

Wild Apricot

Fundraising success at many nonprofits largely depends on the involvement of board members. In this post, world renowned fundraising expert Larry Johnson reveals the four key ways for board members to lead fundraising.

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How Switching to a Private Online Community Helped the Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT) Double Community Engagement

Higher Logic

The Association of Professional Dog Trainers (APDT) once served its members with a Yahoo Group, but only a few hundred members signed up to participate on the platform. Something wasn’t right. APDT needed to find a way to broaden their reach, connecting more members to each other and to the organization. That wasn’t the only problem. With only a fraction of their members interacting online, the Yahoo Groups platform offered very little in the way of features and performance.

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5 Ways to Nurture Professional Relationships

Association Adviser

Professional relationships, just like personal relationships, need honesty, trust and respect in order to grow and succeed. In the association world, there are a number of relationships that require care and attention. Naylor Association Solution’s Group Publisher John Bacon, MBA , and Jamie Williams , a veteran sales representative with nearly 20 years of experience, recently talked to Association Adviser about the ways that they nurture professional relationships with associations and advertis

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49 Popular Nonprofit Software Tools That Save Time and Money

Wild Apricot

Like any company, your nonprofit needs software to increase productivity. Here are 49 of the most popular nonprofit software tools perfect for that.

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Don't Be Misled By the Concentric Circles of Diversity

Eric Lanke

A few weeks ago I mentioned that Spark Consulting was out with another white paper -- this one on the sometimes challenging topic of diversity and inclusion -- and that it was another thought-provoking read for association CEOs. If you're interested, you can download "Include Is A Verb: Moving From Talk to Action on Diversity and Inclusion" here. It's free and you don't even have to register for it.

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2024 Association Survey Results Report

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

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The 6 Biggest Business Benefits of Starting a Branded Online Community

Higher Logic

What drove your last business initiative? For most of us, the answer revolves around meeting goals and improving the bottom line. We launched our latest project to be more efficient, increase sales, or improve retention. Those are the same reasons why business executives are starting branded online communities. Already proven popular with customers (think about Facebook and LinkedIn) online communities benefit companies across almost every department from marketing and sales to customer service.

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Strategies for Association Success

GrowthZone

In the fast-paced world of association management, staying on target with an organization’s mission and goals can be a challenge. Learn about 3 ways to help your association. thrive in The Association Success Kit. Association pros are tasked with running their organization’s day-to-day operations, finding ways to demonstrate value to members, and the list goes on….

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AMSFest Highlights: Setting Expectations to Make a Saavy Membership Software Selection

Aptify

AMSFest brought an energized and inquisitive crowd to Chicago last week. In a creative North Side loft, AMS software vendors, partners, and association executives looking for new software solutions met to discuss the changing technology landscape and strategies on making sound selection decisions.

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Before You Can Change the Organization You Have to…

Smooth The Path

Twenty years ago a director for the company I just started working at said to me, “things are as good as they can get. The company is stable. Our job is just not to mess things up.” He wasn’t alone, that was the prevailing wisdom of the time. Get good at what you do, keep doing what you do, and don’t mess things up. For decades this worked.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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.

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Hit the Road: Using Roadshows to Bring Education to Members

Associations Now

Instead of associations making attendees come to them, many groups are taking meetings and education opportunities directly to attendees. A look at roadshows and their benefits. We’re about to hit the peak point of summer travel season. While some may opt to fly to their vacation stop, others may go the road-trip route to take in the sights and sounds—and get some local flavor—on the way to their destination.

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The Secret to Hiring for Culture Fit

GrowthZone

A guest blog by Maddie Grant, CAE. According to the 2016 McQuaig Global Talent Recruitment Survey , nearly two-thirds of respondents say it’s hard to find a cultural fit when hiring. And when there isn’t a good fit, we often end up losing people fairly quickly, and that’s expensive and inefficient. So, given what’s at stake here, why are we finding it so hard to align who we’re hiring with what our culture truly is?

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How to Use Your In-Person Events to Foster Diversity and Inclusion

Association Adviser

Elizabeth W. Engel, M.A., CAE, Spark Consulting. Sherry A. Marts, Ph.D., S*Marts Consulting. Membership organizations know that the millennial generation, which will soon be the majority of our workforce and membership base, is the most diverse generation we’ve ever had in North America. And the yet-to-be-named generation coming up behind them is even more so.

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The Law of Probability and Association Management

Smooth The Path

Why do some guys get all the girls? This was a question my Dad asked himself in his teens. He noticed that some of his classmates always had a date. They were not smarter or richer or funnier or better looking. So, why did they have all the luck? Later on, my Dad devolved a hypothesis. A hypothesis his lucky friends confirmed. Seemingly lucky guys ask girls out more often.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Is Unlimited PTO Right for Your Organization?

Associations Now

If you want to both attract and retain top talent and cut down on the resources it takes to track PTO, then consider offering unlimited PTO at your association. Do you ever get the back-to-work blues? After a wonderful trip to the beach or a great family reunion, you get back to the office and fall into a depression. Not because you hate your job, but because you used up your stockpile of vacation days, and you won’t be able to take another day off until the Labor Day holiday.

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Disaster Preparedness for Associations

GrowthZone

Planning for man-made and natural disasters is critical for associations. It helps protect your organization and your livelihood. It also supports your employees, your members, the community, and the economy. Start by identifying who should participate in coordinating the plan. Then carefully assess how your organization functions to determine which staff, materials, procedures, and equipment are absolutely necessary to keep operating.

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Configurable and Personalized Conference Experiences

Velvet Chainsaw

The mass-personalization wave that is dramatically changing what and how we buy as consumers has application to conferences. I’ve been doing a lot of research and have learned that personalization can be achieved in a number of ways: Individualized — The customer gets exactly what meets their preferences or needs. In other words, they can order a tailor-made shirt to fit their body measurements perfectly in the style, fabric and color of their choice.

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How to Manage the Culture Change of New Membership Software

Aptify

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” —George Bernard Shaw. When organizations have the notion to update or change their membership management software, the idea can often be met with skepticism or outright opposition from others in the organization. Resistance to change is human nature, but that doesn’t mean it’s OK.

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Measuring the ROI of Enterprise Learning for Customers, Partners, and Professionals

Prove the ROI of Learning Struggling to measure the business impact of learning initiatives? Try our three-pillar approach to show the true value of learning, backed by stories from real businesses like yours. Make 2024 the year of ROI!

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Membership Hack: Member Prospect Cards

Associations Now

Getting board members on board with membership recruitment is as easy as handing them a prospect card. How to hack it? Each year, the Ontario Trial Lawyers Association hosts a long-range meeting to think strategically about the year ahead. At the meeting, OTLA board members are encouraged to fill out member prospect cards, which are placed at the center of the table.

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Does Your Conference Need a Networking Facilitator?

Association Success

And have you heard of one before? So, now you are asking yourself… what the heck is a networking facilitator ? I would have asked the same question 10 years ago. But modern conference goals and a good bit of research suggest that one of the most impactful parts of your conference may be the choice to add a networking facilitator to your schedule. Quality speakers and relevant breakout sessions are important – they provide the valuable information and inspiration you want attendees to take away f

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Book Review: Nonprofit Storytelling in a Digital Age

Beth Kanter

My colleague, Julia Campbell, has just published a book, “ Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits ” and was kind enough to share an advanced copy. In a digital age where there is so much online available online and attention is your supporter’s most precious resource, are you saving or seizing it? If your organization has the skills to craft authentic, real, emotional stories about the work that you do every day and make those stories social, you will be able to gr

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Advance Your Associations Learning Presence and Profits

CommPartners

During the past several years there has been much conversation and debate on how associations can continue to thrive in the face of increasing competition. The question is; with all of the outside “noise” influencing our stakeholders, how can these organizations cut through the clutter, and provide clear value? The sharing of knowledge is a […].

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Here’s a Powerful Marketing Tool Designed for Associations

Show the Benefits of Membership to Your Toughest Prospects. Download this FREE infographic from GrowthZone AMS, Why Join an Association, and start using it as your go-to recruitment and retention marketing tool. Post it on your website. Use it in sales presentations. Or use it as inspiration to create your own version. Infographics have power. They're a quick read.