Nimble AMS

JUNE 28, 2024

Your membership committee plays a vital role in your association—guiding conversations about key membership benefits, identifying potential member pain points, and strategizing solutions to better support your members. We’re here to help you enhance your membership committee! What is a membership committee?

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Spark Consulting

DECEMBER 17, 2018

She holds your professional certification, has presented at some of your events, is a regular contributor to conversation on your white-label social network platform, and served a three-year term on one of your committees. At the end of next year’s renewal cycle, you notice that she’s lapsed. What happens next?

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Association Leaders

JUNE 26, 2019

The Board of Directors, the Officers, the Committee Chairs, the Chapters (if there are any). Typically these candidates come from the current Board of Directors but may also come from committee chairs or even committee members. The process should be coordinated through the Nominating committee process. Committee Chairs.

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Blue Sky eLearn

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Chapter, committee, or business group meetings. If your association is large, you might have multiple chapters, different committees, or even smaller business groups. Use microsites for association committees. In the previous section, we mentioned that your association might have different chapters or committees.

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Higher Logic

OCTOBER 18, 2017

They have groups within them, usually chapters, committees, or special interest groups that combine individuals with similar characteristics or priorities. If all your association’s data and reports focus on the big picture or individuals, then you’re not able to see how well chapters, committees, and other groups are performing.

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Spark Consulting

APRIL 12, 2022

Associations are always going to have committees – indeed, your bylaws probably require, at a minimum, a finance committee and a nominating committee (as they should). When I first wrote this post in 2014, Peggy Hoffman and I had recently released The Mission-Driven Volunteer.

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Association Leaders

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Below are some suggestions you might consider including in your nomination and election process: Have a nominating committee whose responsibility is to develop and/or review nominations. The nominating committee should work throughout the year to identify potential future leaders.

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Association Leaders

MARCH 18, 2019

. • Create a Search Committee – The Board should identify a Search Committee whose responsibility will be to facilitate the process for your association. The ideal Search Committee will have members with different interests/points of view. Consider having your current President serve on the committee in an ex-officio capacity.

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Cecilia Sepp of Rogue Tulips Consulting takes issue with associations that repeatedly ask the same people to join committees and other groups rather than announcing and offering these opportunities to all members. Staff committee liaison. How many of you received training before taking on a committee liaison role? Microlearning.

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Reid All About it

JUNE 18, 2021

Membership committees. Is it difficult to find members to serve on your membership committee? MemberSuite discusses the challenges faced by staff in charge of membership committees and suggests ways you can make improvements by revamping (or retiring) your membership committee. A terrific idea to steal!

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Spark Consulting

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

We’re often tempted to ask volunteers to call lapsed members – in fact, that can be a stated requirement of serving on a membership committee. Member-to-member (or member-to-prospect) communications can be very effective, IF you can persuade your members to actually make the calls. What would a script look like?

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Blue Sky eLearn

JUNE 17, 2019

H ave your committee members attend industry meetings (which they probably already do) and report back to the group when they see a showstopper. . Have a board member, committee member, or staff member ask the questions. It’s almost like an “ unknown “ audition! .

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Spark Consulting

OCTOBER 30, 2024

What if you said: “As a thank you for your committee service last year, please choose any book in our bookstore.”? New members – join now and you get free months, a free book, a free webinar, a free conference attendance, etc. What if we rewarded loyalty instead?

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Spark Consulting

JUNE 21, 2018

After all, the association defines the board and committee structure, right? One way they went about that is, rather than restricting definition of volunteer to committee or board service, ONS asked their members how they DO contribute and how they WANT TO contribute. So how does that impact volunteering?

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Higher Logic

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

It has the capability to improve long-term document collaboration for any committee, working group, task force, or organization, and this tool is a natural fit for Higher Logic’s already strong community platform offering.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Continue reading to discover how to conduct routine pricing reviews at your association, create a pricing committee, and successfully leverage a pricing strategy at your organization. What is a pricing committee? Your pricing committee should take a holistic approach , balancing member value, operational costs, and revenue goals.

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.orgSource

JULY 19, 2022

When you want volunteers to serve on a committee or support an initiative, it’s critical to give them a rewarding return on the investment. We’re all challenged for time. If you wonder why members aren’t more engaged with your association, that’s one big reason. There aren’t enough hours in the day. A skilled facilitator can […].

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Reid All About it

APRIL 3, 2020

In this roundtable discussion, ASAE’s Key Committee chairs will offer insights, encourage you to share your own experiences, and listen and respond to your questions, concerns, and solutions. Michelle Korsmo, Chair, Key Industry Associations Committee. Bob Chalker, MBA, CAE, Chair, Key Global Associations Committee.

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OCTOBER 20, 2024

Through targeted initiatives like our name change policy, accessibility audits and the creation of our DEIA committee, we ensure these principles are at the forefront of everything we do. In my role, I aim to embed diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility into all facets of our publication’s ecosystem.

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Reid All About it

JANUARY 3, 2020

Wed 1/8 at 12:00 – The Journey to Creating Effective Boards & Committee (Association Insights, Alexandria VA). This session will emphasize and demonstrate how solid structure and appropriate volunteer leadership development provide the right path for a successful journey to creating effective boards and committees.

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Spark Consulting

JUNE 5, 2018

The most obvious non-monetary contribution would be serving in a volunteer position, but they might not have the capacity to be committee members either. Is there a way those cash-strapped young professionals could contribute something else of value? Could they serve as social media ambassadors for you? Volunteer at chapter events?

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Associations Now

JANUARY 29, 2024

Last year, the National Association for Gifted Children designed a satisfaction survey for its member volunteers to get a better sense of how volunteers felt about their committee experience. To meet its volunteers’ expectations, the association needed to understand how volunteers felt about their experiences within their committees. “I

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Reid All About it

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Nominating someone is simple and anonymous: submit their contact info and a sentence about them—the AWTC awards committee takes it from there. Committee management. Have you ever had training to be a committee staff liaison or did it go something like this? Conference/event evaluations. Do you use all the data you collect?

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Association Leaders

JULY 9, 2019

At each meeting (committee, board, staff, etc.) Each SMART goal MUST have a person responsible for making it happen. Note: This person doesn’t have to do all the work but is the person RESPONSIBLE for making sure it is accomplished by the deadline). SMART goal status should be shared.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Board reports also summarize committee reports about governing finances or other vital organizational activities. Depending on the committee’s findings, the report may request funds for a list of proposed activities. . Committee work . Committees summarize their actions and proposals. Financial performance .

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Nimble AMS

JULY 15, 2022

Consider adding qualified members (those with law backgrounds or experience with ethical issues, or public policy specialists) to the Code of Ethics Committee or task force so they can serve in a greater capacity. These committee members would represent the document and its contents to new and current association members.

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Membersuite

JULY 16, 2021

Meet with them to find out: What kind of data do they need to do their part in helping the association (or their department/committee) achieve its goals? For example, if they’re a committee staff liaison, what is the committee trying to achieve? What data would help them better understand members or another target audience?

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Membersuite

JUNE 30, 2021

Every governance group—committee, work group, task force, etc.—must Committee service is not for everyone. Take a look at all your committee and volunteer activities. 6: Take staff’s committee liaison responsibilities seriously. Staff aren’t usually trained for their role as committee liaisons—it’s just part of the job.

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Higher Logic

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Create Communities for Chapters and Committees. Chapters, committees, volunteers, events, and special projects can all have their own communities with content and activities that are customized to their needs. 5 Steps to Learn about Your Chapters.

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Association Success

MARCH 18, 2020

Just recently, when state employees faced a reconfiguring of their retirement benefits, Bridges’ and his team called for an emergency meeting and, within hours, they’d organized a “van-pool” to get retirees to a legislative committee meeting every Monday for three months. . “I

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 17, 2024

Committees: Allow members to view their committee memberships and browse the member roster all from a modern, dynamic interface.

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.orgSource

MAY 23, 2023

The treasurer and the finance committee also have important roles to play. Organize panel discussions featuring the Finance Committee. Ask the treasurer and the finance committee to connect with their colleagues to determine what would increase their involvement. Financial literacy workshops. Presentations from experts.

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Reid All About it

MARCH 10, 2023

Log on in March as we discuss, among other things: How can work done by the DEI committee be augmented/supported by this community? Building an Effective Audit Committee Learn how to build and use the audit committee to protect and strengthen exempt organizations. And how does this work get integrated into what ASAE does?

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Blue Sky eLearn

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

First, you’ll need to create a planning committee to take charge of the organization and execution of your virtual day of service. Have your planning committee test out the virtual event platform and tools and note any elements that aren’t functioning properly or aspects of your event schedule that need to be adjusted. Let’s jump in!

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Spark Consulting

JANUARY 21, 2015

Andrea’s been a volunteer with ASAE’s research committee, which supports the work of the ASAE Foundation, and we specifically got talking about the Future of Membership project. We think that the join decision is a simple one: Mary, we want to offer you X benefits that will help you in Y ways for Z dollars – yes or no?

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Smooth The Path

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The interview committee feels one candidate is more personable and exudes more energy than the other candidate. A hiring manager selects two candidates with similar technical skills and backgrounds for a final round of interviews. Which one gets an offer? Every time members decide to renew; they do a similar two-part calculation.

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Spark Consulting

DECEMBER 4, 2020

This is particularly important since we’ve lost opportunities to have the type of casual, in-person conversations we normally have at in-person events, trainings, board meetings, chapter events, committee meetings, etc. Don’t assume you know, and don’t assume your board members’ experiences are typical of your entire membership base.

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