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9 Strategies for Preventing Volunteer Burnout & Keeping Your Leadership Pipeline Full

Membersuite

Association colleagues are telling us they’re having a tough time recruiting and retaining volunteers. Volunteer recruitment was already a problem before the pandemic—members were busy. How to Prevent Volunteer Burnout and Keep Your Leadership Pipeline Full. Review the need for each governance and volunteer group/project.

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Unpacking an Association’s Project Management Bag

Delcor

Project managers head into a new project with that same sense of excitement and caution. And, like backpackers, they only achieve success if everything they need is in their metaphorical association project management backpack. Let’s see what association project managers carry in their backpacks.

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Pilot Program to Address Inequity in Afterschool Leadership

Associations Now

After a report revealed that inequities exist when it comes to the recruitment, hiring, and retention of people of color for leadership positions in afterschool programs, the National AfterSchool Association is piloting a program to address the racial leadership gap. Bechtel, Jr.

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Leadership, Now With Less Narcissism

Associations Now

What’s your most effective leadership style? But perhaps it’s best to get away from this business of “leadership style” entirely. It takes bravery to confess to your blind spots and recruit people to help address them. Which is why I think there’s one leadership style that’s valuable and worth cultivating: vulnerability. “

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Association Brain Food: 1.26.24

Reid All About it

Last year, 814 associations participated in MGI’s survey, which benchmarks the practices used by associations to recruit, engage and renew members. Billhighway discusses the causes of leadership succession issues and offers strategies for preventing volunteer burnout , a big problem for chapters. The 2024 survey is now open.

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Association Brain Food: 12.1.23

Reid All About it

Project success stories. Sherry Budziak of.orgSource recaps accomplishments and lessons learned by the association execs and tech partners who shared their project stories at Solutions Day. Member recruitment. To attract young members , you must recruit in ways that make sense to them. . – 1 CAE credit. . 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.26.21

Reid All About it

Sigh, another self-improvement project—almost complete. They explain why you’re having a tough time recruiting volunteers and how you can enhance the value of the volunteering experience. The seven biggest mistakes in membership recruitment. Despite my penchant for learning, I was shocked to discover I had a fixed mindset.