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Partnering for Volunteer Success – Part 2

by | Jan 13, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

In our last post on partnering for volunteer success, we touched on 2 ways you can enhance your relationship with your volunteers – by serving as a valuable resource...

A Look Back to 2024…

by | Jan 7, 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

Wow! It’s already the 2nd week of the new year and we haven’t had a chance to tout our accomplishments for 2024!  So here’s a quick snapshot of how we helped to train,...

The next step in creating excellency…

by | Dec 19, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

What happens when you bring a bunch of association pros together? You get a goldmine of ideas, inspiration, and potential solutions—and then some! That’s exactly what...

What’s On Your Radar for 2025?

by | Dec 11, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

2025 is coming fast. Here are a couple of things that we just can't wait to jump into... ➨ Decoding Your Volunteer Liaison Role (2-parts) January 28 & 30: We kick...

Partnering for Volunteer Success – part 1

by | Nov 21, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Association staff play a vital role as bridge builders, connecting the organization and its volunteers. Their job is twofold: to communicate the organization's mission...

Shameless Plug: Volunteer Liaison Training Coming in January!

by | Nov 4, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

In case you haven't noticed, we’ve been planting “shameless plugs” for our upcoming 2-part staff/volunteer liaison training series in several of our posts lately. This...

Building a successful staff/volunteer partnership

by | Oct 28, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

We love it when we find an article that just reinforces our own beliefs. In this article posted by ASAE, Jennifer L. Blanck hits the nail on the head when she notes how...

What we’re reading …

by | Oct 18, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

So much to read and so little time to read it all! Here are just a few things we’ve run across lately. Take a look and let us know what you've been reading. ⇒ The AI...

Under the Dashboard Lights

by | Oct 4, 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Question: How do you know if your chapter program is truly healthy? And how do you diagnose areas in which your chapter network needs repair? Ok, that’s two questions,...

Reports & Tools

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A Holistic Approach to Holistic Volunteer Management Report

by | Sep 8, 2023 | White Paper | 0 Comments

New ASAE Research Foundation report reveals a disconnect between what association volunteers do and the value they deliver. Leaders can, however, close the gap with...

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Is There a Future for Association Chapters?

by | Jan 9, 2023 | White Paper | 0 Comments

While 2020 may have disrupted many chapters, prompting the question “are chapters worth the effort,” it also opened a door to a new way of thinking about chapter...

Create a Chapter Dashboard

by | Oct 17, 2022 | White Paper | 0 Comments

A healthy chapter program delivers valuable benefits for an association. It drives member engagement, member satisfaction, and overall member growth. At the same time,...

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Getting to the Good Stuff: Evidence Based Decision Making

by | Oct 15, 2022 | White Paper | 0 Comments

Associations stand at a crossroads. We have more types and greater amounts of data readily available to us than ever before, and the cost of the tools needed to process...

2022 Chapter Performance & Benchmarking Report

by | Feb 9, 2022 | White Paper | 0 Comments

A Look At What’s Changing for Chapters While we all felt the rumblings in chapters before 2020, the past 22 months have been an exercise in jumping over deepening...

Creating Association ROI Through Volunteer Training (Toolkit)

by | Jun 30, 2021 | White Paper | 0 Comments

Member Volunteers bring passion to their work... What they don’t always have are the leadership and team skills needed to make the most of that passion. Tapping...

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Evaluating the Health of Your Association’s Chapter Program

by | Nov 3, 2019 | White Paper | 0 Comments

A healthy chapter program delivers valuable benefits for an association. It drives member engagement, member satisfaction, and overall member growth. At the same time,...

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2019 Chapter Benchmarking Report

by | Oct 22, 2019 | White Paper | 0 Comments

Mariner Management in collaboration with Billhighway and researcher Kevin Whorton, Whorton Marketing & Research, launched this second edition of the chapter...

Evolution of the Chapter [White Paper]

by | Aug 1, 2019 | White Paper | 0 Comments

Chapters have been around as long as associations and in quite a few instances pre-date their respective national/international association. The need to have the...

Webinars

Training & Orientation that Motivates

by | Feb 5, 2025 | Webinar | 0 Comments

January 22, 2025 (webinar)   We have volunteer problems … can’t find them, don’t get the right ones, have ones without a clue. Our volunteers are a lifeline for us:...

Volunteer Research For Associations – Overview

by | Jan 20, 2025 | Video | 0 Comments

We know from more than 20 years of research that volunteers are critical to our success. But the research also shows us that there's an important strong correlation...

AMA with the Experts: Power Up Your Association Communities

by | Dec 4, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

November 13, 2024 (webinar) This lively and insightful “Ask Me Anything” session brought together experts who specialize in association components like chapters, SIGs,...

Enhancing Chapter Operations: The Power Of Dashboards

by | Nov 7, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

October 23, 2024 (webinar) How many of us struggle with getting chapter and component volunteers to submit reports? How many of us have a file folder full of individual...

Be Change Ready: Transform Your Component Strategy

by | Jul 29, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

July 17, 2024 (webinar) Join us for a lively chat with your fellow CRPs who are driving change within their organizations. They’re the change catalysts who’ve taken...

Membership Mastery: Building a Strong National-Chapter Partnership

by | May 2, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

April 17, 2024 (webinar) Component relations professionals and chapter leaders should be on the same team. So why does it often feel like we’re rowing in opposite...

Spark Joy, Not Burnout: Tips to Increase Volunteer Satisfaction

by | Apr 2, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

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...

Launching Your Association’s Chapter Ambassador Program

by | Mar 6, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

Ramp Up Member EngagementIf you asked chapter boards, leaders, members, and staff, to describe your association, chances are you would get a multitude of responses....

Revenue Revamp

by | Feb 8, 2024 | Webinar | 0 Comments

5 Game-Changing Fixes Help Chapters Increase Non-Dues Revenue in 2024January 31, 2024 (webinar) As an association exec, you’d love for 2024 to be a year of strong...

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