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40 Free Nonprofit Webinars for December 2020

Wild Apricot

Every month, I compile the internet's biggest list of free nonprofit webinars. As we get closer to the new year, it's time for nonprofits to take all we learned in 2020 and start planning for a successful 2021. This month, nonprofit experts are offering.

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Put Members First: Become More Member-Centric In 2021

Higher Logic

The post Put Members First: Become More Member-Centric In 2021 appeared first on Higher Logic. How you approach your members moving forward will impact your association’s future outlook. Aim to be the Slack or Amazon or Netflix of associations in 2021 by taking a member-centric approach. The post Put Members First: Become More Member-Centric In 2021 appeared first on Higher Logic.

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Making the Case for Online Education to Association Decision-Makers

WBT Systems

Making the Case for Online Education to Association Decision-Makers. Read more about Making the Case for Online Education to Association Decision-Makers.

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Now You Have Much More Freedom, What Are You Going to Do?

Smooth The Path

Kids can’t play with their friends. Parents are juggling homeschool and jam-packed work schedules. Organization and household budgets are getting squeezed. Workdays are blending into weekends. The worry and the monotony are a bit depressing. Here in the northern hemisphere, winter is coming. Things look bleak. At the same time, we have never had more freedom.

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How to Increase Membership Renewal

Dive deep into essential elements that drive member retention. Learn why members may hesitate to renew. Discover actionable techniques to encourage their return and foster lasting engagement. Uncover reasons members choose not to renew. Learn effective tactics to elevate member engagement and communication. Explore methods to encourage member renewal and active participation in your association Download now to take charge of your membership retention strategy!

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5 Tips to Adapt Your Nonprofit Fundraising During COVID-19

Wild Apricot

To navigate the challenges of COVID-19, nonprofits must adapt their fundraising messaging and communications approach. In this post, we cover the 5 critical elements to delivering the right message to the right audience at the right time.

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Why Can’t We Sleep? This Month’s Book Club Pick

AssociationChat

Each month the Association Chat Book Club picks a book to read, study, and discuss. This month’s selection is Why We Can’t Sleep by Ada Calhoun. Interestingly, one of the book blurbs written about this non-fiction pick is from none other than Harriet A. Washington, the author of Medical Apartheid (among many other books), whom I interviewed on Association Chat this year!

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Our Gratitude Goes Out to You

MemberClicks

As we enter this season of gratitude, we want to stop and take a moment to express how thankful we are for our clients, partners, friends, and followers. 2020 has been a particularly challenging year (to say the least), but to see the association and chamber communities come together and rise above has been truly inspiring.

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38 Free Nonprofit Webinars for December 2020

Wild Apricot

Here are all the free nonprofit webinars happening in December 2020 that the Internet has to offer.

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Want a more welcoming workplace? Stop doing these 2 things

Association Success

We’ve seen it time and time again — new hires struggling to navigate the ins and outs of their position while trying to fit into the culture and get along with their new teams. This process becomes even more difficult when senior staff or members dismiss, belittle, haze or refuse to help their new team members. . Senior personnel treating new additions this way is not conducive to a successful and innovative organization.

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How to Create a Winning Event Marketing Strategy

Events hold the power to create lasting impressions and meaningful connections. They are not only occasions for celebration but also valuable marketing opportunities. Event marketing has become an essential component of successful business strategies, enabling organizations to engage with their target audience and create memorable experiences. However, behind every successful event lies a well-thought-out marketing strategy.

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Going virtual: Modified education offerings for community association professionals

Ungrated

For more than 40 years, CAI has been the trusted education provider for community association professionals. When the COVID-19 pandemic forced us to cancel classroom learning, we knew it was important to discover new ways to deliver our world-class Professional Management Development Program (PMDP) education offerings to you. As we made the shift from classroom courses, we promoted a current library of self-paced, on-demand classes.

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Building Volunteer Success through Feedforward

Mariner Management

Once upon a time, there was a passionate volunteer committee chair. Thanks to Covid, this committee was reinventing its activity and had a compressed timeline. The challenge was making the most of the virtual committee meetings. It called for strong facilitation skills. The story has a happy ending. The activity was a roaring success. Goals were met.

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November Update: Give the Gift of Digital Products This Season

Wild Apricot

The holiday season is fast approaching with lots of goodies in store. For one, digital products for your Wild Apricot store will be available in the next release, allowing you to sell products with instant delivery. There’s also a new CEO in town we’d like you to meet. To top it all off, there are new webinars to sign up for and updated resources to help grow your organization's revenue this season.

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What is the Union Election Process?

Yes Elections

As your union’s election official, your job is to run an impartial, fair election that complies with federal law, the union’s constitution and its bylaws. While elections can be overwhelming, YesElections has developed this explainer to help you navigate this process.

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The Ultimate Guide to Monetizing Customer Learning

Every decision that goes into your learning monetization strategy matters for your organization’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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7 Steps to Eliminating Online Event Registration Form Issues

Eplys

Your online event registration form is an important piece of your overall event marketing. Getting your potential attendees to the form is one thing, but they have to complete it in order to secure their ticket. That’s why it’s important to ensure they have a seamless experience. The best way to do that? Review it from top to bottom.

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Have a coachlike conversations with your volunteers

Mariner Management

So now that we’ve learned how to approach difficult conversations as opportunities rather than obstacles to avoid, how can we take those lessons further and apply them to conversations with our most precious resource … our volunteers? In her 2020 CEX presentation Coaching Volunteers to Focus on What You Need , Laurie Reuben , President & CEO at Cheshire Consulting Group asks us to see every volunteer engagement, whether it is to correct a behavior or to expand on a volunteer’s potential, as

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10 Advocacy Websites That Are Doing it Right

Wild Apricot

If you're looking to build or update your advocacy organization's website, look no further than these 10 great examples for inspiration.

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You Know It's Time to Attend a Virtual Product Training If.

MemberClicks

Just like your organization and its goals evolve, so does your membership software! While it’s important to keep up with software changes for practical reasons, you also want to be sure you’re always using the latest best practices and are effectively leveraging your tools to achieve those evolving goals. Regularly attending product training events will keep you in-the-know about your Oasis or Atlas membership software.

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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 State of Associations with 2021 on the horizon

Multiview

As we edge closer to the end of the year, it’s safe to say 2020 has been a year quite… The post The State of Associations with 2021 on the horizon appeared first on MultiView.

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Chapter Tech Edition: A Few of Our Favorite Chapter Tools for 2021

Mariner Management

The shift to virtual has placed an even greater emphasis on the importance of leveraging technology at the local level. In this session, we’ll share specific tools to help maximize chapter performance in this new reality. Peter Houstle & Peggy Hoffman from Mariner Management will be your Tech Emcees and share how CRPs are leveraging these chapter tech tools on the job and why they’re recommending them to their chapter leaders.

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5 Tips to Adapt Your Nonprofit Fundraising During COVID-19

Wild Apricot

This is a guest post from Andrew Goldsworthy, Director of Client Success & Growth at Rootid. If nothing else, 2020 has been a test of our resilience and adaptability both at a personal level and for nonprofit organizations. The challenges are.

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How to Grow Your Organization’s LinkedIn Following (And Keep Your Followers Engaged)

MemberClicks

Is your association or chamber of commerce on LinkedIn? If not, we highly recommend creating a company page. Not only does it give your organization credibility, but it’s likely where many of your members and prospects are — and that means it’s the perfect digital playground for member engagement! But you can’t just create a page and expect to have followers (especially followers who engage).

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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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There is nothing so permanent as business rules

Effective Database

There is nothing so permanent as business rules Nobel Prize-winning economist Milton Friedman said, “There’s nothing so permanent as a temporary government program.” I have a similar thought when it comes to association business rules and programs.

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A Bright Spot in Chapters

Mariner Management

Your association and chapters probably face the same challenge the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) wrestles with: filling the industry and association leadership pipeline. Their New England chapter meanwhile was acting. In 2013, IIDA New England launched the Emerging Leaders Network (ELN) answered one of the top requests from firm principals: provide specific professional development training to rising designers in the chapter.

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10 Advocacy Websites That Are Doing it Right

Wild Apricot

Advocacy organizations do important work — they prompt the most difficult conversations and pave the road to change. If your nonprofit does some or is entirely dedicated to advocacy work, thank you! The world is a better place because you exist.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.27.20

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… . . Online learning. If your board (or C-suite) hasn’t accepted the fact that your association must offer online education to your members and market, then you’ll want to read this post from WBT Systems. They suggest strategies for making the case for investing in online learning programs.

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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!