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A Guide to How Data Improves Chapter Performance
A Guide to How Data Improves Chapter Performance

This FREE guide shows how engagement, financial, and performance data is essential to every chapter. We’ll walk you through it step-by-step.

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Introducing the Volunteer Learning Journey—A Mutually Beneficial Chapter Volunteer Management Model
The volunteer learning journey helps you visualize volunteer and association needs and desires for each level of volunteering—from first-time volunteer to board member.
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Mapping the Chapter Volunteer Competencies Needed Along the Volunteer Pathway
As members move along the volunteer pathway, they develop the skills and experience needed for the task at hand and can see what competencies they need to move to the next level of volunteering—the topic of this post.
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How to Design a Chapter Volunteer Learning Journey That Empowers Your Members and Association
We explain how volunteer scenarios and training gap analysis can help you identify the type of content you need to develop and offer to prepare members for volunteering and leadership.
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How to Start Building the Chapter Volunteer Learning Journey for Your Association and Chapters
The volunteer learning journey lifts and inspires members, and alleviates the stress of chapter leaders and staff who are constantly worrying about the leadership pipeline. It provides a framework for training members and developing their skills so they’re prepared to take the next step in their volunteer and leadership journey.
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Leverage Chapter Member Engagement Data for Key Insights into Component Performance
What do your association executives hear when you say chapter member engagement?
Let’s Reboot Volunteer Training
How can we use volunteer motivations and personas to drive learning? Join us for a conversation about rethinking our approach to volunteer training so we can retain volunteers and develop future leaders.
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3 Ways Data Improves Chapter Performance & Your Relationship with Components
Do you have data-driven strategies for communicating the positive impact of your chapters?
You’ve Got Their Data. Now What? 3 Transformative Steps in a Chapter Benchmarking Project
You’ve Got Their Data. Now What? 3 Transformative Steps in a Chapter Benchmarking Project
We’re returning to AGC and the remaining three phases of a successful chapter benchmarking project: sharing that data, providing resources, and supporting their growth with chapter leader training and development.
What Does a Well-Designed Chapter Self-Assessment Tool Look Like?
What Does a Well-Designed Chapter Self-Assessment Tool Look Like?
Let’s get into the nitty-gritty of a chapter benchmarking project, starting with a well-designed chapter self-assessment tool.
5 Prerequisites for a Chapter Benchmarking Project
5 Prerequisites for a Chapter Benchmarking Project
You want data that truly reflects chapter performance and progress toward mutual goals. Here's five prerequisites for a successful project.
What’s the Point of Chapter Benchmarking?
What’s the Point of Chapter Benchmarking?
Let’s say you collect a lot of chapter data and share it with chapter leaders, then what? How do they use it? How do you use it?
How CRPs Can Support Chapters with Virtual and In-Person Event Decisions and Design
What the Experts Say About In-Person Chapter Events for 2021
Outlook for in-person chapter events in 2021 and how to help chapter leaders decide whether to host an in-person, hybrid, or virtual event.
What the Expert Says About In-Person Chapter Events for 2021
How CRPs Can Support Chapters with Virtual and In-Person Event Decisions and Design
Chapter leaders are eager to get back to in-person meetings. But are in-person events a responsible and viable option for the near future?
The Feedback Alternative: FeedForward
Giving feedback to volunteers is a tricky situation and often fails to produce the outcome we need. The same could be said about giving feedback to staff or your supervisors. We explore a technique that shifts the outcome by shifting the focus.

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Billhighway Association Solution: Help Your Chapters Reach Their Highest Potential
We solve inherent operational and data complexities that impact component-based associations by unifying data systems, simplifying administrative processes.
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2019 Association Component Exchange (CEX) Workbook
The 2019 CEX Workbook is your guide to experiencing the speakers, sessions, takeaways, and more from our Association Component Exchange conference.
2018 Association Component Exchange (CEX) Workbook
2018 Association Component Exchange (CEX) Workbook
The 2018 CEX Workbook is your guide to experiencing the speakers, sessions, takeaways, and more from our Association Component Exchange conference.
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The Current State of Chapters: Executive Summary on Chapters
The current state of chapters has been examined in order to best understand the underlying problems and needs of chapter-based associations.
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Driving Chapter Value Whitepaper
Understand how smarter investment will boost the chapter ROI at your association. The success of chapters will drive bigger and better returns.

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