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Association Brain Food: 11.1.24

Reid All About it

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? Member workplace challenges. Conference/event evaluations.

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Executive Committee Essentials: Roles, Structure, and Distinction from the Board of Directors  

MemberClicks

An executive committee can convene and act quickly and decisively when it counts. These committees are becoming more and more common in for-profit companies, nonprofit organizations, and member associations. They’ve become common in larger nonprofits, with executive committees present at 76% of nonprofit organizations.

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Do You Need A Survey to Tell You What Your Members Think?

Portage Group

It never ceases to amaze me how easily association executives and boards dismiss the need for conducting member research, confident that they have an accurate finger on the pulse of their key stakeholders. Perhaps you make it a habit to pick up the phone or drop in on members periodically to talk to them one-on-one.

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Why I like the Market Research Society’s (MRS) successful membership change project

Optimist Consulting

Talking to members. They then followed this with some member research and a series of regional roadshows where their CEO travelled the country to listen to members, which they called the ‘Be Part of It’ tour.

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Association Brain Food: 6.21.24

Reid All About it

Using and Creating Legislative Scorecards Discover how legislative scorecards can transform your organization’s strategy by ranking and categorizing elected officials based on their voting records, committee involvement, and more. 1 CAE credit. . Find out how the Freedom From Religion Foundation, Inc.

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Peek Behind the Scenes of One Innovative Annual Conference for New Ideas to Use at Your Annual Conference

Smooth The Path

This year I participated in the conference committee and got to see conference planning in action (by the way, the conference is December 14th and 15th in Atlantic City and I think you should go ). What is particularly interesting about this year’s conference is the team methodically set about meeting some of members’ biggest challenges.

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Strengthening Member Engagement: Tips From an HR Consultant

Fonteva

Virtual association events where members can take advantage of live streaming tools and other online solutions to engage with others entirely online. Association member committees made up of some of your most active members.