Sat.Jan 13, 2018 - Fri.Jan 19, 2018

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Small, But Mighty: A Resource for Small Nonprofit Leaders

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. A recent work product from this community includes “ Small, But Mighty ,” created by a small group led by Debra Natenshon and Karen Walker, the guest post authors. Often, we think of “high performance” as something only for large organizations, but smaller nonprofits can apply the ideas too.

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The 5 Best Ways to Generate Earned Income for Your Nonprofit

Wild Apricot

If your organization is looking for more funding opportunities, here are five of the best ways nonprofits are generating earned income to support their missions.

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How to Think Like a Futurist

WBT Systems

Every January, articles about trends take over the internet. You’ve probably read a few yourself—including, we hope, the one published here last week about six non-obvious online learning trends for 2018. But every association has a distinct audience who may behave differently than how trend-spotters predict. If you want to identify the most relevant trends for your membership, learn how to think like a futurist.

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Interview with an Expert Series: Associate Executive Director, Myke Kudlas

Blue Sky eLearn

Myke Kudlas is the Associate Executive Director of the American Society of Radiologic Technologists and has been a champion of eLearning for over 15 years. 1. How long have you been involved with eLearning? I first took an interest in eLearning in 2001, but became more involved in 2003, when I was the Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville Radiography Program. 2.

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Improve Email Strategy with Proven Email Marketing Tips

Struggling to get members to open or engage with your emails? You're not alone. Our free Best Practices for Email Marketing guide offers practical tips to strengthen your email strategy and improve engagement. Inside, you'll learn how to: Write subject lines that increase open rates Build scannable, mobile-friendly designs Choose send times that fit your audience Personalize content with Smart Newsletter Use Message Report data to refine strategy This guide helps associations and chambers create

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The Idea Swap

Eric Lanke

I attended an educational conference last week and a wonderful thing happened to me there. I got a new idea. I don't know yet if it's a good idea or a bad idea. Maybe you can tell me. But that's not the point. The fact that something new and novel occurred to me while attending this conference practically made it worth the price of admission. Here it is.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 1.19.18

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events for the association community… It’s that time of year again. Marketing General Inc. is inviting associations to participate in their 10th annual Membership Marketing Benchmarking Survey. Of all the benchmark reports released in the association community each year, this is one of my favorites. The deadline is February 2.

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The Six Tech Tools Your Small Org Staff Needs to Succeed [eBook]

Higher Logic

Associations are usually labeled as “small” for one of two reasons: they have a small staff or a small budget. Many have both. But that doesn’t mean terms like “small org” are always on-point. The small associations we work with have large memberships and far-reaching effects. Year after year, they consistently make a bigger impact with fewer resources.

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Bright Idea: Starting young

Aaron Wolowiec

With older professionals retiring from the institutional investment industry, tapping into blossoming chartered financial analysts has been key to CFA Society Minnesota’s growth.

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Raise the Bar with VR

Forj

Date: March 27th, 2018. Register Here. In this session, Filament Games CEO Dan White will discuss the potential of Virtual Reality (VR) to facilitate interactive, inquiry-based learning. Through the lens of Filament’s VR research, development, and ongoing dialogue with leading VR manufacturers like HTC, Oculus and Google, White will demonstrate how VR can engage users in authentic learning through identity, embodiment, and immersion.

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Stop Budget Burnout: A Better Way to Grow Your Nonprofit in 2026

Speaker: Sean Yoder

Nonprofits are under more pressure than ever to demonstrate financial accountability while continuing to expand their impact. Traditional budgeting models often fall short, reinforcing silos, limiting flexibility, and stalling growth. Enter collaborative budgeting: a dynamic, team-driven process that enables smarter resource allocation and builds financial resilience at scale.

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Volunteers Vs. Staff: Overcoming Different Perspectives

Association Success

How do we maintain an accord between volunteer and staff leadership? One thing that associations all have in common is a sense of purpose. A vision of a common good is the axis upon which the internal workings of an association spins – or at least should spin. This distinctive aspect of the industry is disturbed by the fact that associations are also unique in their design: they have to rely heavily on volunteer efforts to move forward in pursuing their goals.

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Simple Questions as Conversation Catalysts

Idea Architects

About once a week, I tweet a current favorite question for use as a meeting icebreaker/conversation catalyst. I find having a supply of these on hand makes it easier for me to introduce one when doing so is the right call in a meeting or conversation. Too often, we make breaking the ice too complicated. While longer community-building activities or icebreakers are valuable, they are not the only option available to us.

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Time for a cultural shift?

Aaron Wolowiec

Workplace culture is about more than beanbags and flex hours. It’s about company values and ensuring sure those values shape success, writes Jamie Notter, partner at WorkXO Solutions, in his new e-book.

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5 Unique Ways to Improve Your New Member Engagement Program

Smooth The Path

Shirley looked at the metrics of her 6-month new member email campaign. The first email generated a 40% open rate and the second email did even better with a 47% open rate. The rest of the emails were decent each getting between 33 and 38% open rates, except for the 3rd and 4th email. They had 14% and 19% open rates respectively. These results were baffling because both the 3rd and 4th email offered highly valued content and education.

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Interactive Webinar: Recurring Giving Events That Keep on Giving

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Community Engagement

There’s more than one way to end the year with impact—and we’re letting you decide the direction. In this "choose your own adventure" community-led webinar, attendees will vote in real time to pick one of three year-end event strategies to explore in depth: Volunteer Appreciation Events 🧡 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Campaigns 🌈 Mission/Program Celebrations 🎉 Once the path is chosen, we’ll dive into a step-by-step engagement workflow plan tailored to that format, showing how

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The Down-Side of Efficiency

Jamie Notter

I had two remarkably similar conversations last week with two organizations that could not be more different from each other. One was a large, global corporation, and the other was a small nonprofit, but they were both struggling with the same issue: not enough time. Everywhere I go, it’s the same thing: we don’t have enough time. We don’t have enough time to run experiments or do beta tests.

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5 things #EventProfs should know after CES 2018

Event Industry News

Want to know what gadgets and gizmos the latest tech innovators are working on #EventProfs? CES (the Consumer Electronics Show) is the show to watch. The global tech show lands in Las Vegas every January and is a hotbed of innovation, cutting-edge new products and weird and wonderful devices. The post 5 things #EventProfs should know after CES 2018 appeared first on Event Industry News.

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Facebook’s Latest News Feed Changes: What Nonprofits Can Do

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Another week, another change to Facebook. ( See Mark Zuckerberg’s post from January 11, 2018.). This one actually may make a big difference in how nonprofits use the networking site though. In case you haven’t heard, Facebook is changing what you see on your news feed. You’ll now see more from your friends than from Facebook Pages.

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Successfully Embracing Change is a Team Effort

Association Adviser

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools. Their membership numbers more than 1,300 schools across the United States, as well as international schools in Canada, Mexico and 23 countries around the gl

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How to Make the Case for a New AMS (and Win)

Is your current AMS is creating more problems than it solves? You can lead the change. This eBook shares a customizable letter designed to help you clearly communicate your organization’s challenges, highlight the benefits of a modern system, and make a strong case for exploring a new AMS. Whether it’s outdated reporting, clunky workflows, or member frustration, this resource will help you start the conversation with clarity and position yourself as the advocate your organization needs.

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Hidden Problems That Seriously Erode Member Engagement

Smooth The Path

Have you ever tried to do something online that should have been easy but wasn’t? This issue could be with your cell carrier, or computer company, or utility. Maybe you cannot figure out what link to click. Or you click the right button but nothing happens. Or you click a link, and then another, and another just to end up right where you started.

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SK Events takes a stand against environmentally damaging plastics

Event Industry News

SK Events, the company behind Liverpool Food and Drink Festival, Liverpool Spring Festival and Manchester Eats, has launched an initiative to keep its events free from any plastics that may be harmful to the environment. As part of the initiative, all restaurants, cafes, bars and producers across the three festivals are being encouraged to sign a pledge to only serve food and drink in containers that are biodegradable.

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Is Your Conferencing Treating Its Customers As Tourists Or Explorers?

Velvet Chainsaw

How does your conference treat its participants? How do you and your leadership team view them? Are your conference customers more like tourists? Seeking conference swag, amenity room drops, welcome bags and quick ideas? Or are they more like explorers? Craving authentic experiences, no matter the size, that enhance their lives and change their attitudes, behaviors and skills?

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Successfully Embracing Change is a Team Effort

Association Adviser

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools. Their membership numbers more than 1,300 schools across the United States, as well as international schools in Canada, Mexico and 23 countries around the gl

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A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse

Unlock the Power of Historical Data A Data Revolution: Why Your AMS/CRM Needs a Native Data Warehouse Today’s association leaders need more than real-time snapshots—they need the full story. MemberSuite: A Data Revolution reveals how a native data warehouse transforms your AMS into a strategic decision-making engine. In this free eBook, you’ll discover: The difference between a database and a data warehouse—and why it matters How to gain historical visibility into membership, engagement, events,

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Download the 2018 Nonprofit Communications Trends Report #NPCOMM2018

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Our Nonprofit Communications Trends Report has become the “go-to” source for what’s REALLY happening in the world of nonprofit communications and fundraising. And the 2018 edition is now available! Get your FREE copy now. During the eight years we’ve been publishing this report, we’ve see nonprofit communications staff evolve to become strategic partners with programmatic, development, and executive staff.

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Event Tech Tribe expands its offering with venue booking tool

Event Industry News

Event technology collaborative, The Event Tech Tribe is kicking off the New Year with an announcement that their family of best-in-craft event tech suppliers has grown. Venue booking software, Meetingselect is to become the seventh member of the Tribe, which has seen a huge surge in popularity over the past 12 months as a result of their unique approach to the event technology ecosystem, recently being named one of the Top 10 Meetings Innovations of the Year.

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Dear Association Leader Who Defends And Champions Status Quo

Velvet Chainsaw

Dear Association Leader: The status quo does not have your best interest at heart. It feels safe. And familiar. And comfortable. And even successful. But it’s not. It’s a very enticing powerful force. It can seduce you into a seemingly logical yet inadvisable present-forward mindset. You project today’s business into the future and expect yesterday’s success tomorrow…although the world continues to change.

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Save the Date: SURGE is coming back!

Association Success

We're back. Even better. Underpinning all our efforts at AssociationSuccess.org is a thesis: that the best, brightest, and boldest ideas come from minds meeting. Early November saw this thesis in action, with the unfolding of SURGE 2017, our free virtual summit, and our vanguard experiment in collaborative innovation. SURGE 2017 was a three-day virtual event, during which attendees had exclusive access to pre-recorded sessions focused on cutting-edge solutions to our shared problems.

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A New Look At Running Grants & Programs: Why Use A System When You Have Excel?

Speaker: Gareth Webb & Phil Selley, Founding Partners at Intouch Business

For many nonprofit organizations and NGOs, managing grants and monitoring projects with spreadsheets and manual processes feels familiar—but is it holding your organization back? As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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LIVE WEBCAST: 2018 Association Survey Results

GrowthZone

GrowthZone surveyed over 1,000 association professionals across. the U.S. and Canada. And the results aren’t what you think. Register Now. LIVE Webcast: Wed., Jan. 24 th | 12 pm CST. Join the upcoming, live webcast with Teri Carden of ReviewMyAMS.com and the GrowthZone team for the first public look at the 2018 Association Trends Survey findings.

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Warrington Wolves sign security contract with Showsec

Event Industry News

Showsec has signed a new two-year contract with Warrington Wolves to provide security services for all upcoming home games. The crowd management and event security company has already worked at The Halliwell Jones Stadium since 2009, and has been the Wolves’ primary security supplier for much of that time. However, this is the first time a permanent contract has been in place.

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Successfully Embracing Change is a Team Effort

Association Adviser

We recently caught up with Jeffrey Shields, FASAE, CAE, chief executive officer of the National Business Officers Association , the only national association focused exclusively on supporting independent school business officers and business operations staff, and fostering financial and operational excellence among independent PK-12 schools. Their membership numbers more than 1,300 schools across the United States, as well as international schools in Canada, Mexico and 23 countries around the gl