Setting Chapters Up for Change
For many the new year brings new resolutions most of which are about change. While we focus on the need to change, we sometimes skip over setting ourselves up for change. This can be doubly so when we look at change in our associations and in our chapters. This is...
Marking 18 years of supporting Associations
We opened Mariner at the start of 2002. It was a bold new year’s resolution. We set out to build a business that catered to association chapters and their volunteers. Offering management services and project help, we launched into a new business and new year. It’s...
Try Harder or Try Different: 2020 Resolution for Chapters
Is 2020 the year to try harder and finally “fix” your chapters? Before you put that new year’s resolution down on your list (again), ask a different question. Should we be fixing or experimenting? If we didn’t have chapters and were creating them, would we follow the...
Starting Chapters? In 2019?
According to the 2019 Chapter Benchmarking Study, the trend looks more like it’s about closing chapters. But that’s not the story over at PEN America, a literary organization with nearly 100 years of history. They launched new chapters in six focus regions:...