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6 Remote Work Models to Consider for Your Organization’s Future

Achurch

During the early days of the pandemic, organizations were in crisis mode as they shifted to remote work. There was no time to strategically plan the transition to the current work from home state. Almost a year later, teams are now more comfortable operating outside of the office. As organizations look to ‘what’s next’ for their post-pandemic workforce, it’s time to lay out a strategy for what your longer-term remote workforce could resemble.

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Write a Perfect Welcome Letter to New Members with These 10 Tips

Wild Apricot

I once received a new member welcome letter that was so drab, it caused me to cancel my membership with the association. Well. there's a little more to the story than that. Let me explain.

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Introducing Advanced Starter Kits: Email Campaigns for Associations Are Easier Than Ever

Higher Logic

The post Introducing Advanced Starter Kits: Email Campaigns for Associations Are Easier Than Ever appeared first on Higher Logic. Our new advanced starter kits combine the power of successful, proven strategies with content prompts that jumpstart your member communications strategy. It’s time to automate your email campaigns with confidence. The post Introducing Advanced Starter Kits: Email Campaigns for Associations Are Easier Than Ever appeared first on Higher Logic.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.5.21

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community…. Non-Dues-A-Palooza Digital Backstage Pass. Teri Carden is cooking up a phenomenal-sounding digital experience for anyone interested in increasing their non-dues revenue. A digital pass subscription gets you regular small group meetups, monthly expert live streams, weekly newsletter, benchmarking data, on-demand content, one-on-one brainstorming session, and event discounts.

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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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The Importance of Honoring Black History Month

Aaron Wolowiec

Every year Black History Month sparks the annual debate about using one month to celebrate the history and accomplishments of African Americans. In 1926, when Carter G. Woodson pioneered the idea of Negro History Week, we’re sure he would have never imagined a whole month to coordinate the teaching of history of Black Americans in our nation’s public schools.

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Meet the 2021 Engagement Experts

Higher Logic

The post Meet the 2021 Engagement Experts appeared first on Higher Logic. Higher Logic is recognizing these influential leaders for their exciting work in engagement. Meet the 2021 Engagement Experts. The post Meet the 2021 Engagement Experts appeared first on Higher Logic.

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Partnership v. Membership: Wrapping Up and the BIG Question

Spark Consulting

The Partnership v. Membership blog point-counterpoint series I was writing with Lewis Flax got abandoned a little abruptly almost exactly one year ago. I don’t know about you, but I could use some closure. And, of course, there’s the question of: How is all of this impacted by the pandemic, and the massive disruption in pretty much every aspect of our lives that’s resulted?

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How to Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Marketing Education Programs

WBT Systems

How to Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Marketing Education Programs. Read more about How to Use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Marketing Education Programs.

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Venues set to trial You Check health passport

Event Industry News

Working with the Music Venue Trust (MVT) and approved for trial by the DCMS, start-up company You Check will test its new health passport with live audiences as a means to safely reopen UK music venues. Pencilled in for the 100 Club in London and Bristol’s 250 capacity Exchange, the first test events can’t come soon enough. According to MVT research more than 400 grassroots music venues are at imminent risk of being closed permanently.

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

Struggling to generate revenue beyond membership dues? You're not alone. Our free guide, The Ultimate Guide to Non-Dues Revenue for Associations , offers practical strategies to help your organization boost financial health. Inside, you'll explore creative ways to generate income, including: Educational offerings tailored to your audience Event-based revenue opportunities Job boards that drive engagement and income Corporate sponsorship ideas A checklist to evaluate and strengthen your current a

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Email Deliverability Is Down (Meaning Your Emails May Not Be Making It to Inboxes)

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

In doing research for next week’s webinar Email Marketing Trends for Nonprofits webinar series, I came across the 2020 Email Deliverability Benchmark Study done by Validity. According to their report: Globally, the average inbox placement rate was 83 percent in 2019—meaning one out of every six messages failed to reach the inbox. Global deliverability saw a slight decline of two percentage points from the 2018 average of 85 percent. 2020 Email Deliverability Benchmark Study.

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NAP - New Year, New Look!

AMR Management Services

The beginning of a new year marks a time when many people make positive changes. This year, the National Academies of Practice (NAP) launched a new logo, new color scheme, and new tagline that we.

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To PEO or Not to PEO, that is the Question

Association Adviser

A PEO, or professional employer organization, can help your association grow without incurring extraordinary staff costs. Learn the pros and cons of PEOs. The post To PEO or Not to PEO, that is the Question appeared first on Association Adviser.

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VenuIQ ensures go ahead of vital NHS leadership conferences

Event Industry News

The NHS Confederation has celebrated the successful conclusion of its latest virtual event for the leadership of the NHS, created by award-winning events software provider VenuIQ, to meet necessary COVID-19 restrictions. . The annual PNC Network Conference took place on 11th November 2020 and welcomed 1000 delegates nationwide to discuss the innovation and issues in primary care.

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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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A Look Back at 2020

SBI

Considering all of the challenges and hardship that came in 2020, you might question our decision to want to look back on it. Our small business and our nonprofit association partners were shaken at the beginning of the pandemic, and there was no way of knowing how severe the impact would be on the other side of the calendar year. Now, 2020 is over and we can exhale a small sigh of relief.

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Adapting and evolving: Leveraging tools to better serve our communities

Ungated

Responding quickly to difficult situations is an important part of what we do as community managers, board members, and business partners. This past year brought us, among other things, a devastating pandemic and social justice movements. Thanks to member experts and resources, CAI has been there as your constant supporter , leveraging tools and resources to help our communities through these challenges.

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[TEMPLATE] How to Help Conference Attendees Justify Event Cost

Eplys

Increasing conference attendance can be a seriously arduous task. You must convince your audience to commit not only their money, but also their time. (And we all know, time is money.) Tack on travel fees for a national (or international) in-person event and, well, it can be a bit of an uphill climb asking attendees to spend hundreds, even thousands to attend your event.

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Cornbury Festival 2021: Music fans will need Covid vaccine or negative test

Event Industry News

While the future of music festivals in Oxfordshire is still uncertain due to Covid-19, some organisers are doing everything they can to ensure they can go ahead in 2021. This includes the organisers of Truck Festival in Steventon and Cornbury Festival at Great Tew. Truck is scheduled to take place from July 23-25, while Cornbury is scheduled to take place July 9-11.

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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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Get All Kinds of Much-Needed Email Marketing Training This Month

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s what’s happening this month at Nonprofit Marketing Guide…. Online Training: All-Access Training Pass. Attend live webinars and workshops (including the ones listed below), watch recorded webinars, enroll in exclusive online courses and access our entire library with templates, worksheets, e-books and more, and join our Private Facebook Group all with one purchase.

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What to Do When Everyone Is Right

Smooth The Path

Take a peek at the picture above. What immediately comes to mind for you? You might think, “aw, so cute.” Or with your nose itching, you might think, “Wow, look at those furry piles of allergy-ridden dander.” Both of these thoughts are true, and so is every other thought or feeling you might have when you look at this photo. Often we encounter issues, ideas, and problems for which there is no one right answer.

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Onboarding Online, Keep New Hires on Track for Success

.orgSource

Congratulations! Online interviewing didn’t make you skip a beat. You found the talent to complete your dream team. You’re probably feeling pretty lucky. But you might be less than enthusiastic about navigating those first months of learning to work together through the small screen. If remote interviewing took some adjustments, virtual onboarding requires more.

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Ahead of the curve with GDS Group

Event Industry News

Harlan Davis is vice president of Product and Innovation at US-based GDS Group. In business for nearly 30 years, GDS started as a publisher, producing B2B journals for select markets including retail and healthcare, before moving across to events in 2005. Running between 50 and 100 executive summits every year pre-pandemic, for clients as illustrious as IBM and Dell, the GDS model already incorporated the virtual world so was a few steps ahead come the travel restrictions and lockdowns.

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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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How to Create a Nonprofit Website Homepage That Gets Attention

Bonterra

This is the second to last post in a series of articles on the topic of digital marketing for nonprofits and creating the perfect nonprofit website. In the first four articles, we discussed creating mission pages , impact pages , volunteer pages , and the all-important donate page. In this fifth post, our next to last article in this series, we will discuss creating the perfect nonprofit website home page.

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NAP - New Year, New Look!

AMR Management Services

The beginning of a new year marks a time when many people make positive changes. This year, the National Academies of Practice (NAP) launched a new logo, new color scheme, and new tagline that we.

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Effective and Ethical Creative [New Guide]

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

M + R has released a new guide called Direct Response Creative for Nonprofits: Theory and Practice. That rather dry name belies the very interesting content inside. It’s really all about creating communications that are effective AND consistent with your values and ethics. Where might that NOT be the case. that you would create content that’s inconsistent with your values?

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Live events industry urge MPs to save the festival season and its wider supply chain

Event Industry News

Yesterday, (2 nd February,) the future of the UK’s world-leading music festivals and the live events supply chain were left in the hands of MPs during a critical parliamentary committee inquiry this morning. The committee, led by leaders in the industry, discussed the impact of COVID-19, the support needed for events to safely return, and urged for a government-backed insurance scheme.

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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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How can associations make member payment processing easier?

Nimble AMS

There are many association activities which are completely essential, yet pretty tedious to do. As human beings, we often seek out work which offers solutions to real needs, sparks creativity, or enables us to take a leadership role. There are more interesting, fulfilling things we’d rather do than uninspiring tasks like paperwork or payment processing.

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The Florida HOA Process, Explained

Yes Elections

Each state has its own laws dictating the process by which homeowners associations (HOA) elect board members. Florida is no exception.

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Did You Make a Great Plan, Then Never Look at It Again?

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

It’s so exciting. you get others in your organization to finally focus on communications and you create a marketing strategy. Or maybe you set aside the time to finally create your editorial calendar. You are fired up! And then. it just sits there, never to be looked at again. What the heck is going on? A few things, likely, and here’s what to do about them.