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Improve Your Association?s Value with Reverse Mentoring or Co-Mentoring

Smooth The Path

Members benefit from a well-made match and from a thought out process where each side understands the ground rules and their obligations for making the relationship work. How can you add even more value for long-time and new members by providing a process and expectations, so each member gets to be both the mentor and the mentee?

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The impact of COVID-19 on civil society, part two

Candid

In Rhode Island, a Grantmakers Council of Rhode Island and Fio Partners survey published in October found that 64 percent of respondents have been delivering services in a moderately or severely reduced capacity, but only 3 percent had suspended services altogether.

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Monday Buzz: Membership Success Fueled by the Web

Associations Now

A small Rhode Island association discovers how important its web presence really is. The Rhode Island Academy of Physician Assistants was founded in 1976, but it wasn’t until recently that its membership really began to take off. Plus: How long will Twitter be around? They don’t have to make any phone calls.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 7.9.21

Reid All About it

A few years ago, on a visit to my aunt in Rhode Island, I was inspired by the bean salad she made, so I developed my own recipe with additional inspiration from Our State It’s been a Fourth of July tradition ever since—a tradition made even more meaningful because the Fourth is my aunt’s birthday. . Would fresh clams be better?

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Friday Buzz: The Super Bowl of Ham Radio

Associations Now

assistant director of the Charlestown, Rhode Island, Emergency Management Agency, noted that the tests work as a nice refresher for employees. An online community is a real art form, and doing it well takes a lot of thought early in the process. John Zabriskie Sr., What We Look For When Reviewing A Community https://t.co/n8WAssHPAE

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Association Blasts Medicare for Paying Unlicensed Prosthetics Providers

Associations Now

Kirk said the findings come at a time when certified prosthetics and orthotics providers have complained about the government’s stringent auditing process. “As The association represents the interests of some 2,000 businesses that build and sell orthopedic braces and artificial limbs to patients.

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10 Steps to Start a Chamber of Commerce 

MemberClicks

Plus, discover how MemberClicks Trade can simplify the process. At the time of this writing, every state but Rhode Island and Massachusetts has a state-level Chamber of Commerce. What is your orientation process, and how often should it be available? What is a Chamber of Commerce?