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Association Brain Food: 3.8.24

Reid All About it

In 2024, the data continues to show how the historical assumptions that drove association strategy are less and less valid.” Tech Tuesday Slam Dunk: Successful Strategies to Manage Your IT Project Portfolio Managing your IT project portfolio is like juggling multiple March Madness brackets—requiring skill, precision, and strategic thinking.

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Supporting nonpartisan voter engagement to build a more inclusive democracy 

Candid

Their strategies include running communications campaigns to inform communities about elections, training and convening nonprofit partners, providing voter engagement grants, investing in voting infrastructure, and funding research to inform strategy.

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What is the Secret to Successful Grant Writing?

Blue Avocado

Harriett Davis from the Chicago Public Library Foundation Tell the Story of Your Mission Not Just What Your Mission is I have found that, as grant applications have gone online and gotten shorter, my strategy has become ever more important: Concise, clean, and emotive storytelling works better than stats and history.

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The Shifting Model for Volunteer Engagement

Associations Now

A new initiative being explored by nonprofits in New Hampshire aims to improve the level and impact of volunteer engagement at a time when the mindset of volunteers is changing. The New Hampshire Center for Nonprofits and the New Hampshire Charitable Foundation think that’s a question worth exploring.

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8 must read articles for Association Executives

SCD Group

After reading about FastCompany’s Top 50 innovators, Lori captured 4 things that membership organizations could learn from the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies: Walk the talk (#1 Apple) Play the long game (#4 Amazon) Relentlessly reinvent (#12 Southern New Hampshire University) Make yourself useful(#30 LinkedIn).

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6 Tactics Association Marketers Can Learn from the “Silly Season”

SCD Group

Associations can learn micro targeting tactics when they see the multi differences among their membership and potential members and then use that knowledge for their member development strategies. For example, Bernie Sanders message is: tax the rich; free college; free medical care.

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

ChatterBachs

Other states with strong representation include California (16), New York (6), Pennsylvania (5), Florida (4), and Texas (4). Individuals from North Carolina, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Oregon, and Idaho stand alone as delegates from these states. No one on this list knew that they would be named to it. Love my students.