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

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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. Once a task has been assigned, give them ownership and support.

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Association Brain Food: 10.27.23

Reid All About it

Sherry Budziak at.orgSource describes how two associations’ partnerships with civic and governmental organizations acted as safety nets in times of crisis. Organizer: Cecilia Sepp, CAE, CNP, founder, Rogue Tulips Consulting Fri 10/27 at 12:30 p.m. – Strategic partnerships. Value proposition. But you have to admit when you do.

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Association Brain Food: 4.28.23

Reid All About it

Member recruitment. Impexium suggests member recruitment strategies that will successfully drive your marketing efforts in this very different marketplace. Online communities are extremely popular with younger audiences—the toughest ones to recruit and retain. Frankly, we’re smarter about it now. Online community. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food: 2.23.24

Reid All About it

. – The In-Between is Ineffective (Radio Free 501c, the podcast of Rogue Tulips Consulting ) Every week Rogue Tulips brings the nonprofit community intriguing guests discussing vital topics affecting nonprofit organizations around the world—and we have fun doing it! Location: Washington DC. Organizer: GLAM Wed 2/28 from 9 a.m.

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4 things you can learn from WaPo’s TikTok strategy

Association Success

Dominated by dancing videos, lip syncing and too many inside jokes and references within subcultures to easily explain, TikTok has become a space where organizations can reach prospective new members in ways that specifically appeal to them. . Take the Washington Post, for example. Interact with other organizations.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.29.19

Reid All About it

Check out this 15-minute web series covering hot topics and issues related to 501c organization management. AWTC End-of-Year Reception (Washington DC). Location: Washington DC. When you recruit members, you’re inviting them to your organization’s “party.” Location: Washington DC and online.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.18.19

Reid All About it

They provide an action plan to increase engagement, even if you’re not “in charge” of engagement, along with case studies of organizations that have successfully shifted their cultures. Embracing Data and Technology to Increase Member Engagement (online and Washington DC). Location: online and Washington DC. More info/register.

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