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A recipe for volunteer success: How to recruit, educate, and retain

Ungrated

Veteran community association leaders say whipping up a plan to recruit, educate, and retain volunteers is essential to volunteer success and is a delicate mix that includes patience, flexibility, solid coaching, and listening skills—plus a dash of strong commitment to community. Blank sheets of paper are volunteer kryptonite.”

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Membership Hack: Recruitment Competition for Chapters

Associations Now

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) is in the final few weeks of its fall membership drive, and last week it upped the ante by announcing cash and prize incentives that will be awarded its top recruiters. For some chapters, the fall membership drive creates an opportunity to engage members in local recruitment events.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.21.17

Reid All About it

Presenter: Patti Shock, academic consultant, The International School of Hospitality, and professor emeritus, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Strong membership engagement efforts are key as associations have indicated it’s more expensive to recruit new members than to retain their current ones. More info/register.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 2.19.21

Reid All About it

Membership recruitment. The ROI Member Recruitment Brochure: How to Crea8e Brochures That Positively Influence Membership Decisions. The ROI of Words: How to Write Website Copy That Will Drive Member Renewal and Recruitment. Devin Lewis, Director of Regional Sales at Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority.

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Your Brand is Your Association’s Lifeblood

Association Adviser

Branding expert David Avrin, CSP, discussed why branding is essential in today’s marketplace at the Meeting Professionals International World Education Congress (MPI WEC) last month in Las Vegas. To recruit members and industry partners who will invest in your vision, you must be visible in the marketplace.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 10.12.18

Reid All About it

Whatever your next step or long-term goals may be, advancing in government affairs and/or advocacy requires unique professional and leadership development to catch the eye of future employers and executive recruiters. Glen Simpson, Director of Special Operations for Las Vegas Community Ambulance. More info/register.

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#ASAE17: Leadership Lessons from The Streets, The Jail Cell, and The Kitchen

Associations Now

Chef Jeff Henderson’s life trajectory wasn’t always pointed toward the kitchen—though he has manned the stoves at the Bellagio and the Ritz-Carlton in Las Vegas. When you look at hiring people, recruiting people, retaining people, we have to sell them on the dream,” he said. People don’t quit jobs, they quit leadership.