Sat.Mar 05, 2022 - Fri.Mar 11, 2022

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How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives

Higher Logic

The post How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives appeared first on Higher Logic. A certain mindset allowed this travel and hospitality-connected association to navigate through a catastrophe that particularly impacted their industry. Discover the philosophies that got them through. The post How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives appeared first on Higher Logic.

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Is Your Virtual Conference Engaging Enough to Prevent Multitasking?

WBT Systems

After two years of living in pandemic mode, we look at time differently.

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Gardian of the Month: Shannon Lockwood

Aaron Wolowiec

Our Gardian of the Month, Shannon Lockwood, shares her favorite part of learning something new, whether she's a natural networker or more of a wallflower and she shares the three adjectives she's use to describe herself.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.11.22

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Grassroots advocacy survey. Amy Showalter, ASAE Government Relations and Advocacy Professionals Advisory Council member and author of ASAE’s Creating and Managing an Association Government Relations Program , is asking associations to contribute to the 2022 Grassroots Influence Pulse study.

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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 As funding requirements become more complex and stakeholder expectations for transparency grow, relying on outdated methods can lead to inefficiencies, missed opportunities, and compliance risks.

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How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives

Higher Logic

The post How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives appeared first on Higher Logic. A certain mindset allowed this travel and hospitality-connected association to navigate through a catastrophe that particularly impacted their industry. Discover the philosophies that got them through. The post How They Survived the Pandemic: The American Association of Airport Executives appeared first on Higher Logic.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

Since February 24, more than two million people have fled Ukraine. The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) head Filippo Grandi described this humanitarian disaster as “the fastest-moving refugee crisis we have seen in Europe since the end of the Second World War”. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) estimates that some 18 million people will ultimately become affected, including 6.7 million that will be internally displaced and 12 million who will need humanitaria

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How Remote Managers Can Help Employees with Imposter Syndrome

Achurch

Those who suffer from imposter syndrome, are in good company. Albert Einstein, Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, and Emma Watson, along with 82% of the rest of us, have wrestled with impostor syndrome. What is it, you may ask? It’s a yammering internal critic that challenges the validity of your successes. That critic’s voice often gets magnified working remotely where managers and team members are not present to help combat it in person.

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Alternatives to Listservs: 4 Reasons Online Communities Rule

Higher Logic

The post Alternatives to Listservs: 4 Reasons Online Communities Rule appeared first on Higher Logic. Listservs used to rule, but now, creating an online community for your membership is the way forward in our increasingly virtual world. The post Alternatives to Listservs: 4 Reasons Online Communities Rule appeared first on Higher Logic.

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ExhibitDay: Ditch the event planning emails + spreadsheets + pen-and-paper hodgepodge

Event Industry News

Launched in 2019, ExhibitDay is a fast-growing, free, trade show planning and project management tool for exhibitors and conference sponsors. Thousands of Event managers and trade show teams use ExhibitDay every day to plan in-person and virtual events. What separates ExhibitDay from other event planning tools is: Simplicity; take a test-drive by creating a free account and the first thing you’ll notice is the meticulous attention paid to making the tool as easy-to-use as possible.

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Find New Non-Dues Revenue Streams for Your Organization with This Free Guide

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Membership Dues: Fair Share is Grossly Unfair

GrowthZone

by Frank Kenny. The membership dues model known as “fair share” is unfair to your members and your chamber. With fair share, every member gets the same features and benefits, yet some pay more than others simply because they have more employees, hotel rooms, or money on deposit. This dues model fails to consider that a business’ wants and needs change over time.

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Diversity Can’t Stand Alone—It Needs Equity and Inclusion To Matter

.orgSource

Like a string of beads, it is our unique differences and intricacies that make us so appealing and attractive. We would not be as beautiful if we were all the same. It’s the contrast and asymmetry that makes us worthwhile.— Lindsey Lunsford, M.E.M., eXtention Foundation, 2019 Impact Collaborative, DEI Fellow One of my early […]. The post Diversity Can’t Stand Alone—It Needs Equity and Inclusion To Matter appeared first on.orgSource.

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10 AppExchange Apps that Nimble AMS Customers Love

Nimble AMS

“I get by with a little help from my friends.” . That’s exactly how Nimble AMS, Salesforce and the Beatles help associations. One of the great things about having your association management software (AMS) built on the Salesforce platform is access to thousands of friends in the Salesforce ecosystem. The Salesforce AppExchange is an app store with more than 5,000 apps to extend what Salesforce can do.

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Conference Venue Spotlight: The Belfry Hotel & Resort

Event Industry News

The Belfry Hotel & Resort is one of the UK’s leading meeting, conference, and event venues situated in the Midlands, close to Birmingham city centre. The resort is proud to have won many awards including England’s Leading Conference Hotel and England’s Leading Resort at the World Travel Awards, England’s Best Incentive Hotel at the World MICE Awards, and Ultimate Resort in the 59Club Service Awards.

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Forecasting Failures Are Costly: Heres How To Fix Them

Speaker: Dave Sackett

Traditional budgeting and forecasting methods can no longer keep pace with today’s rapidly evolving business environment. Static budgets, rigid annual forecasts, and outdated financial models limit an organization’s ability to adapt to market shifts and economic uncertainty. To stay ahead, finance leaders must leverage a future-forward approach—one that leverages real-time data, predictive analytics, and continuous planning to drive smarter financial decisions.

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What can we do together?

Candid

Q&A with a Toledo-based library on building community capacity. Toledo-Lucas County Public Library (TLCPL) has been part of Candid’s Funding Information Network since 1980, providing local nonprofits and the public with access to Candid’s resources, including Foundation Directory, for free. We spoke with Zach Huber, Toledo-Lucas’s specialist librarian, to showcase what their library has been able to achieve by being a part of the Funding Information Network.

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Workflow Maps for All the Communications Work You Do

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

We’ve been telling nonprofit communicators for a long time to visually map out their workflows. A visual map of the steps and processes of your work can really help others understand what it is you do and what it is you need them to do. It can also communicate norms for numbers of drafts, review times, deadlines, and other potential bottlenecks that could be making you silently scream every day slowing you down at work.

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Ask Rita: When Do I Initiate the ADA Interactive Process with a (Possibly) Disabled Employee?

Blue Avocado

Dear Rita, I am the HR manager for a nonprofit agency that has 21 employees. One of our employees has been a great performer in the four years they’ve been with us. Their job involves primarily clerical duties. Recently, we’ve noticed this employee has been having problems keeping up with the workflow generating and delivering […]. The post Ask Rita: When Do I Initiate the ADA Interactive Process with a (Possibly) Disabled Employee?

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NFT tickets for events

Event Industry News

NFT tickets are unique digital assets that store access credentials and unique extra benefits for your attendees. With Oveit, you can easily create, mint, and sell NFT tickets at lower costs, while keeping a reduced carbon footprint. They are fundamentally changing the entire experience for both you, the event organizer, and your future attendees. Your tickets are generated and stored on the Ethereum blockchain and can offer: New revenue streams.

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The Everyday Donor: Unlocking Prospecting Segments Through Behavior Analysis

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Do you really know your donors? Not just what they give, but who they are? 👥 In this interactive session, we’ll break down how nonprofits can use behavioral indicators (affinity, recency, frequency, and monetary value) to build prospecting segments that go beyond wealth screening and actually align with donor identity. You’ll walk away with practical strategies to move beyond basic demographics and cultivate supporters based on how they already engage with you!

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How to Simplify When Decisions Are Super Complex

Smooth The Path

Complexity loves to thwart decision-making. Complexity builds a house of cards, so we feel we can’t move one thing without impacting everything else. Stalling forward movement is complexity’s fundamental desire. Associations are complex creatures. Each department could be a stand-alone organization. Some associations serve many member segments, some with competing interests.

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How to Make Every New Employee’s First Day Memorable

Association Adviser

The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) defines new employee onboarding as “the process of integrating a new employee with a new company and its culture, as well as getting a new hire the tools and information needed to become a productive member of the team.” According to research, having an effective onboarding process can […]. The post How to Make Every New Employee’s First Day Memorable appeared first on Association Adviser.

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Earning respect: How one community association attorney prioritizes well-being and supports women

Ungated

Part of a series about women in leadership roles during Women’s History Month. Women have made many strides as leaders in their workplaces and communities in the pursuit of equality in recent years. For Laurie Poole, a partner at Adams Stirling law firm in California and a fellow in CAI’s College of Community Association Lawyers (CCAL) , that has meant overcoming biases and earning respect from male peers in more than 28 years as a community association attorney.

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Entegy: Self-managed, all-in-one platform

Event Industry News

Entegy is an intuitive and easy-to-use events management, communication, and engagement platform, designed specifically for business events. The platform allows anyone to create and manage the entire event lifecycle from a single system. Offering a range of feature sets, from websites and registration to apps, email campaigns, and badge printing, Entegy can cater to events of all types and sizes.

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2025 Association Survey Results Report

GrowthZone’s 11th annual survey highlights trends, challenges, and strategies shaping the membership industry through insights from U.S. and Canadian association professionals. Get your copy of the 2025 Association Survey Results Report to see how your organization measures up: The biggest challenges associations are facing Membership retention trends and non-renewal insights Strategies for automatic renewals and reinstatements Shifts in member engagement tactics Why members are joining (and sta

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Rapidly Shift Your Creative Lens

Smooth The Path

My toddler son dug around in the bathroom drawer and located a deodorant stick. Carefully he placed it on my husband’s side of the sink and started sorting through the drawer again. Finding his prize, he solemnly handed my deodorant to me with these wise words, “Mama, you have to wear your deodorant, and Dada and I use his deodorant because we are mens and you are a girl.” The anecdote is one of the tidbits I captured, and since forgotten in the letters, I’ve been writing

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Mixed Links for Nonprofit Communicators – March 11, 2022

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Let’s wrap up the rest of this Friday afternoon with a little jaunt into the most helpful articles, posts, tips, and more from around the world of nonprofit marketing and fundraising. This week we have crypto-fundraising tips, how to hire staff, a Giving Tuesday success story, data hygiene best practices, what people on Twitter really think of you, and more.

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The Smart Nonprofit Book Launches 3/9

Beth Kanter

I’ve got some very exciting news, my new book, The Smart Nonprofit: Staying Human-Centered in an Automated World , co-authored with Allison Fine, launches on Wednesday, March 9th. The Smart Nonprofit is a jargon-free roadmap for nonprofit staff, boards, volunteers, and funders on the ways “smart technologies” like artificial intelligence are changing social change work.

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Multi-year deals and event expansion at Exhibition Centre Liverpool heralds return to industry confidence

Event Industry News

Exhibition Centre Liverpool has confirmed a series of multi-year deals and events expanding – as confidence continues to return to the industry. UNITAS Wholesale Trade Show, which recently extended its contract to five years, will take place this week on March 9 – 10. The event – which brings together leading national and global brands with the UK’s independent wholesaling industry to negotiate deals and network – will increase from 5,400m2 to 8,100m2.

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Turn Messy Data into a Strategic Asset with This Essential Guide

Is messy, outdated, or duplicate data making it harder to track engagement, revenue, and performance? Poor data quality can slow your organization down and prevent you from making informed decisions. With The Dirty Data Guide , you'll discover: Practical steps to clean your data and maintain accuracy over time. A checklist to help your team implement data hygiene best practices.

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[podcast] How the Great Resignation can benefit associations

Association Briefings

For forward-thinking associations, the Great Resignation can provide great opportunities - both internally and for the industries they serve. Open any business-focused publication and you’re going to see article after article discussing the Great Resignation and its impact on employers. But for forward-thinking associations, the Great Resignation can provide great opportunities - both internally and for the industries they serve.

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Big Ideas, Small Budgets: Finding Abundance in a NonProfit Marketing Budget

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

After my college internship at a national performing arts nonprofit was complete, I landed my first salaried job at a large financial services holding company that housed more than 80 different brands. We had a marketing team nearing 30 people, our own in-house print shop, photo studio, plentiful project budgets, and regular tech upgrades. Not to mention the weekly happy hours and fully stocked snack bar just for our department.

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The Smart Nonprofit Book Launches Today! 

Beth Kanter

Several years ago, Allison Fine and I started talking about our next book together and started writing and thinking about the implications of an emerging technology that we describe as “Smart Tech,” and what nonprofit leaders need to know to be prepared. Today is the day that a lot of writing, thinking, and speaking about this topic comes full circle.