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What Can Associations Learn From Social Clubs?

Associations Now

One person keeping an eye on the trend is Leigh Zeitz, a past president of the Kiwanis Rough Risers in Cedar Falls, Iowa, and webmaster for the club’s blog. While Kiwanis continues to do important fundraising and service work supporting youth initiatives, he says it’s harder to recruit new generations of members.

Iowa 92
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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

Reid All About it

Host: Northstar Meetings Group Speakers: Robert Kenward, recruitment expert Dawn Penfold, president, Meetingjobs.com Elise Schoening (moderator), senior editor, Northstar Meetings Group Wed 12/13 at 3 p.m. Host: Volunteer Managers of Central Iowa Fri 12/15 at 4 p.m. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. More info/register.

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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

Recruited by one of my customers, I was lured into the publishing industry to work on college textbooks for computer science and management information systems. I worked for a company in Boston for years before transferring to another publishing company in Iowa, which was short-lived because of mismatched expectations.

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