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A recipe for volunteer success: How to recruit, educate, and retain

Ungrated

Veteran community association leaders say whipping up a plan to recruit, educate, and retain volunteers is essential to volunteer success and is a delicate mix that includes patience, flexibility, solid coaching, and listening skills—plus a dash of strong commitment to community. relies on CAI education materials to train volunteers.

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How Associations Can Transform Higher Education

Reid All About it

If you need a little inspiration—the kind that makes you feel blessed “to have been alive and well back then”—then read The Association Role in the New Education Paradigm , a white paper from Elizabeth Engel, CAE and Shelly Alcorn, CAE. The sad state of higher education. Come to the rescue of young adults and lifelong learners.

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Association Brain Food: 3.8.24

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… 2024 association trends. Education program marketing. Chapters should offer plenty of member-organized social meetups, not just education programs. As you might expect, AI is on the list, but they look beyond the usual discussion points.

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Association Brain Food: 3.1.24

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Education programs. They describe how to apply best practices in cognitive, learning and behavioral sciences when designing education programs, so learners are more likely to retain and apply new competencies on the job. AI for associations.

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Association Brain Food: 2.23.24

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Join or Die. – GLAM Happy Hour (Washington DC) Join us for another GLAM (Gays and Lesbians in Association Management) happy hour to catch up with your LGBTQ+ friends and colleagues in the association community. Location: Washington DC.

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Conference Circuit: Global Educators

Associations Now

NAFSA’s 2019 Annual Conference & Expo begins next week in Washington, DC. Thousands of international educators, including deans, provosts, and student advisors, are headed to DC to learn from experts, discover innovations and discuss trends, and get to know colleagues from around the world. Washington Convention Center.

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What Does the Sale of The Washington Post Mean to Your Association?

Association Navigator

I’ve been thinking about what Jeff Bezos’ purchase of The Washington Post means for trade associations? We heard the news a couple of weeks ago that Jeff Bezos, founder and chief executive of Amazon is buying The Washington Post and there have been many articles about what this means for the newspaper business.