National Volunteer Week* turns 50 this year! This year’s celebration is April 21–27 and no one knows the value of great volunteers more than our association peeps! To help you celebrate, Points of Light offers a downloadable #NVW toolkit complete with social media...
March 27, 2024 (webinar) Are your chapter leaders feeling the strain of volunteer burnout? You’re not alone! When component relations professionals (CRPs) gather, they often commiserate about how hard it is to recruit volunteer leaders. Members are choosing different...
Cost-Effective Strategies for Collecting Member Feedback This guest blog is by Chelsea Killam, founder of Easy Tiger Insights With the start of a new year, associations have the opportunity to harness fresh insights from their members, shaping the roadmap for the...
Hard to believe 2023 is coming to a close! As we prepare for 2024, we’d like to take some time to look over what we’ve accomplished in 2023. And of course, as always, a big thank you to our clients, colleagues, and fellow collaborators who supported us...
By Carol Blattau I recently thumbed (or scrolled) through some old posts and the first thing that struck me was how much fun I seemed to be having back then. After all, at the time, I was finding a lot of inspiration from writers and grammarians (I know, it’s a...
By Peter Houstle This probably sounds a bit weird, but please bear with me. You see, I read an interesting article about behavior modeling and change management that suggests a more active role for association members and staff in today’s less than civil society, and...
