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Why Millennials Join Associations and What Associations Can Do to Keep Them

Association Adviser

Despite popular sentiment that millennials are disinterested in joining traditional professional associations, young people are uniquely positioned to benefit from association membership in important ways. Don’t make the mistake of lumping all millennials together or thinking they’re not joiners. .

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Report: Millennials Rank Education, Healthcare and Employment as Top Election Issues

Achieve

New research from Achieve investigates millennials’ ongoing cause engagement behaviors during a presidential election year. Today Achieve, in partnership with the Case Foundation, released the second wave of research from the 2016 Millennial Impact Report. The second wave of data surveyed millennials from June through August 2016.

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The Problem With Millennials & Fundraising

Achieve

I’ve heard many nonprofit professionals label Generation Y or Millennials (born 1980-2000) as a generation of slacktivists (slacker + activists) – great for sharing information about a cause on Twitter or helping YouTube videos go viral, but other than that, useless to fundraising and development. I reject this label. One example is.

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Report: Millennials Value Face-to-Face Meetings More Than You Think

Associations Now

Despite what you’ve read about millennials and the impending decline of the meetings industry, a new report by the Meetings Mean Business Coalition found that this generation understands the importance of in-person events. Millennials want to meet and engage in new ways, according to the report.

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Reach Your Fundraising Goals By Embracing a Millennial Mindset

Achieve

While we talked through our plan one last time, a team member mentioned an article about how Millennials are using technology and social media to change the way nonprofits do fundraising. I thought to myself, “My three kids are Millennials, and I’m constantly having to give them money. THE MILLENNIAL MINDSET.

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The World of Opportunities for AMCs: A YM Perspective

YourMembership

In early 2000, we were focused on state and local chapter associations, which we viewed as being underserved by the association management software (AMS) providers of the day. It was our opinion that these associations were in the greatest need of the help the technology we were building could provide. The Roadblocks to Success.

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The Young Professional – Tracking down the Future Leaders of Your Association

Association Adviser

If you’re not a millennial – loosely defined as people born between 1980 and 2000 (ages 18 to 38 years old today) – you may feel that you are unqualified to understand what motivates them. Sixty-three percent of associations feel offering leadership development and events for the next generation of professionals is extremely important.

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