Achurch

MAY 7, 2025

Budget planning season is more than a financial checkpoint: Its a chance to align your associations mission with its resources. A well-structured budget helps your team prioritize, communicate with your board, and make confident decisions throughout the year. In this post, well walk through how to build a solid annual budget, from historical analysis to flexible forecasting, tailored to the unique revenue streams and expenses of associations. 1.

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AMR Management Services

MAY 7, 2025

Lets be honest, association marketing can feel like a lot. Youre trying to reach new members, engage current ones, promote events, share resources, and showcase impact all while staying on-brand and on budget. Social media is one of the best tools associations have to do all of that, but it only works if its done… The post 4 Social Media Marketing Tips Every Association Should Be Using in 2025 first appeared on AMR Management Services.

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Association Adviser

MAY 7, 2025

Why content strategynot just content creationholds the key to audience engagement, revenue, and long-term relevance. Associations are fighting a quiet battle: theyre creating more content than ever, but often seeing less return. Newsletters go unopened. Webinars underperform. Social posts fade quickly into the algorithms abyss. Its not a lack of effort.

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Associations Now

MAY 9, 2025

The viral phenomenon is back, and throws some cold water on assumptions associations make about engagement. A few weeks back, my 14-year-old son walked past me as I sat on the living-room couch and informed me that he was headed to the backyard to pour a bucket of ice water on his head. Okey-doke, I said, as dads will. He was still a toddler when dousing yourself in ice water was a subject of such casual conversation.

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Is your current AMS is creating more problems than it solves? You can lead the change. This eBook shares a customizable letter designed to help you clearly communicate your organization’s challenges, highlight the benefits of a modern system, and make a strong case for exploring a new AMS. Whether it’s outdated reporting, clunky workflows, or member frustration, this resource will help you start the conversation with clarity and position yourself as the advocate your organization needs.

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MatrixG

MAY 8, 2025

Listen to this article Your browser does not support the audio element. Over the past couple of years of hosting my Associations Thrive podcast , Ive interviewed well over a hundred association and nonprofit CEOs about what theyre doing to help their organizations thrive. The conversations are inspiring, filled with examples of strategic initiatives, membership growth, innovative partnerships, and new revenue streams.

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Achurch

MAY 7, 2025

The push to do more with data leads many organizations to re-examine their key systems. An AMS implementation is an associations largest change management project/disruptor. Your organization should budget accordingly by thinking outside the traditional earmarked funds. To help, weve listed some other costs to include when budgeting for your AMS. Time : Dont lowball the cost of your time in your budget.

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ISAE

MAY 7, 2025

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Associations Now

MAY 7, 2025

AI helps people save time and find information more quickly, and its changing the way we use the internet. Now, seeking information can be more like having a conversation with an expert. Instead of Googling something, you can ask ChatGPT a question, get an answer, and ask follow-up questions to drill down deeper. While its exciting that this technology allows us to conversationally get answers without sorting through search results, it also presents a problem for associations.

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Velvet Chainsaw

MAY 8, 2025

Gross profit is the metric that matters most to leaders. As a business event strategist, you can grow your credibility and value with your senior leadership by having your finger on the pulse of this metric. To arrive at your largest events gross profit, you need to connect the dots to apply attendance, revenue, and expense trends against your business model and industry.

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Reid All About it

MAY 9, 2025

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community Association Brain Food wont be in your inbox next Friday (May 16) because next week Im in New Mexico and Texas for a family hiking vacation. Youll get the next edition on Friday , May 23. In the meantime, brace yourself, its a long one today. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.

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.orgSource

MAY 6, 2025

In todays rapidly evolving landscape, artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future conceptits a present-day game changer. But while headlines scream about revolutionary AI tools and the promise of automation, theres a critical element that often gets overlooked: AI success isnt about the technology itselfits about how well your organization is prepared to use it.

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Achurch

MAY 7, 2025

Its a question weve heard more than once: Why do we need a partner if the vendor says theyll handle the implementation ? Its a fair question, and one worth unpacking, especially when leadership is watching every dollar. Heres the truth: Most AMS vendors (and similar platforms) focus solely on their part of the build. For example, if the vendor provides only a minimal setup (like configuring one membership type) and hands over the rest, your team is responsible for completing the remaining tasks

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Wild Apricot

MAY 5, 2025

Board meetings are where your nonprofit's big decisions get made! Hold the best board meetings you can by having an agenda prepared!

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Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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Candid

MAY 7, 2025

Over the past few months, nonprofits and funders alike have been trying to understand the impact of a potential loss of government grants. In our previous analysis , weve found private foundations would have to increase their grantmaking by 282% to address the potential $303 billion gap left by government grantmaking. Additionally, Urban Institutes data tool estimates that two-thirds of nonprofits receiving government grants would face deficits if these grants disappeared.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 9, 2025

With the possibility of tax regulations changing in 2025, associations face growing complexity when managing taxes. From navigating the nuances of Unrelated Business Income Tax (UBIT) to accurately reporting across multiple revenue streams, staying compliant can easily become time consuming and overwhelming. However, with Nimble AMS, built on Salesforce, your association can leverage robust automation and reporting tools to take the stress out of tax preparation.

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Event Industry News

MAY 9, 2025

Post-Brexit red tape is paralysing the UK events industrys ability to operate across Europe, according to a new white paper published today by The Business of Events.

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Ungated

MAY 9, 2025

The 2025 CAI Annual Conference & Exposition: Community NOW continued Friday as participants networked with friends and colleagues, attended various education sessions to learn about important issues, browsed the latest tools and resources, and toured the expo hall. Education session topics on the agenda included customer service, leading effective meetings, and civil communication.

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Achieve

MAY 8, 2025

Your donors give their hard-earned money because they believe in your organizations work. To maintain their trust and ongoing support, you need to keep them engaged and informed on the impact of their contributions. A strong communication strategy helps accomplish exactly that! Donors want to feel valued, involved, and appreciated, and the information you share with them is instrumental in fostering that connection.

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Candid

MAY 5, 2025

Roughly 1.4 billion adults around the world remain unbankeddisproportionately women, rural residents, and individuals earning low or irregular incomes. These groups often face multiple barriers such as distrust of financial institutions, lack of sufficient funds, limited connectivity in rural areas, lack of identification documents, and the resulting high transaction costs, which limit opportunity for economic participation for those who need it most.

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Event Industry News

MAY 6, 2025

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Ungated

MAY 8, 2025

The 2025 CAI Annual Conference & Exposition: Community NOW got underway in earnest Thursday as participants met up with friends and colleagues, attended various conference sessions to learn about important issues, browsed the latest tools and resources, and toured the expo hall to network. Conference sessions on strategic planning, recruiting board members, and civility in associations were among the topics on the agenda.

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Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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Florida Condo & HOA Law Blog

MAY 7, 2025

In this special 100th episode of Take It To The Board , we’re excited to welcome back our very first guest, James Donnelly. When host Donna DiMaggio Berger first sat down with James in 2021, he was leading Castle Group, one of Florida’s largest community association management firms. Now, they reunite to reflect on the extraordinary journey James has taken since selling the company.

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Candid

MAY 6, 2025

Studies have shown trends in individual giving and volunteering vary by generation. Not only do they differ in how much time or money they give, how and how often, to which causes, and whyeach generations preferences are also shifting. The latest Giving by Generation report from Giving USA Foundation and Dunham + Company shares findings about giving across generations from an online survey, conducted in November 2024, of 1,500 U.S. donors who gave at least $20 to charity in the past year.

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Event Industry News

MAY 6, 2025

I joined Sunbelt Rentals three and a half years ago after retiring as a professional cyclist, a career that saw me represent Team GB in three Olympics, winning two gold medals. From competing in huge events on the world stage to working in partnership with customers to deliver them has been an exciting transition.

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Achieve

MAY 8, 2025

Your donors give their hard-earned money because they believe in your organizations work. To maintain their trust and ongoing support, you need to keep them engaged and informed on the impact of their contributions. A strong communication strategy helps accomplish exactly that! Donors want to feel valued, involved, and appreciated, and the information you share with them is instrumental in fostering that connection.

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Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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Florida Condo & HOA Law Blog

MAY 4, 2025

Q: Our HOA has been searching for information regarding the percentage required for votes to make changes to common areas when the covenants are silent. Our documents require a two-thirds vote of members for amendments to governing documents, but nothing is said about changes to the common areas. Florida Statute Chapter 718 states 75 percent of the owners must approve material alterations unless otherwise stipulated in governing documents but what is the rule on this for homeowners’ associations

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Candid

MAY 8, 2025

Childrens ability to thrive is influenced by a web of unique local factors, including limited job opportunities and social mobility, geographic isolation, and lack of safe housing. To address these challenges, its key to consider local complexities. Thats where community-led impact comes in. Across rural America, civil society and the public and private sectors are coming together to actively engage local leaders in planning, delivery, and refining efforts to drive lasting positive change. posit

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Event Industry News

MAY 8, 2025

In a powerful step towards more sustainable brand activations, Oatly has completed its first-ever electric sampling tour across the UK, delivering its signature oat-based coffee while cutting out carbon emissions. The four-week TASTE tour was created as part of Oatlys wider BLIND TASTE campaign, designed to shift perceptions through first-hand product experiences.

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