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12 Volunteer Management Practices to Adopt for 2011

Idea Architects

Ensure that volunteer contributions are tracked in your membership management systems, be that a sophisticated AMS, a few fields in another type of database, or index cards with handwritten notations. So getting better at volunteer management might just mean getting better results at membership recruitment and retention.

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Hello — is it this association you’re looking for?

Association Success

But one of the best ways to manage this change is through enforcing and developing our key relationships. . Sometimes the best way to do that isn’t by retooling an email newsletter or coming up with a punchier message for social media: It’s by picking up the phone and dialing.