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Strategic Planning Leads to GROWTH

Association Strong

Tom Morrison’s association formalized their strategic plan in 2006 and have revisited it every two years since. It has created over 2,600% growth in their net reserves since 2006 giving the board the freedom financially to develop some very compelling value for the members.

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Pitching Your Association’s Online Community Strategy: How to Overcome Common Objections

Socious

Think, Zune circa 2006 (you can go ahead and look that up on your iPod touch). Most of them have the right intentions but many raise objections simply because what you are suggesting takes them out of their comfort zones and if it fails they don’t want tied to a sunken ship.

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Internet Association Hires New Director Of Federal Government Affairs

InternetAssociation

In 2006, Amy joined Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner’s (WI-05) staff and served as his Legislative Director and Judiciary policy advisor. As Director of Federal Government Affairs, Bos will work to educate lawmakers on key issues facing internet companies and push for policies that facilitate the continued growth of the free and open internet.

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Chapters– Are they worth the cost?

Mariner

2006, two research undertakings by Mariner and Whorton and by the ASAE. Nearly half of all associations. have components – a catch-all phrase for chapters, special interest. groups and the like – according ASAE’s last benchmarking study. Component Section Council sought to answer the question “are chapters.

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Is Your Nonprofit Tax Status at Risk?

Wild Apricot

Up to 25% of American nonprofits – charities, trade associations and membership groups – will lose their tax-exempt status at midnight on May 15, when the provisions of a 2006 federal bill kick in.

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Apricot Chat: 5 years of Wild Apricot

Wild Apricot

July marks the 5th Anniversary of Wild Apricot's Member Management Software, and we were pleasantly surprised to find that over 20 clients who joined us in 2006 still have active accounts with us! Join us as we take a look at some of our early clients, and learn why they are still with Wild Apricot today.( read more ).

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Wild Apricot Software News - July 2010

Wild Apricot

For starters, we celebrated the official birthday of Wild Apricot software in early July -- commemorating the first public beta release launched in July 2006. (if Well, notwithstanding the heat, July is a pretty busy month here at Wild Apricot. if you scroll all the way down on our release history page you can see a list of functionality.(

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