Billhighway and Mariner released the third annual Chapter Benchmarking Report. Read the interview discussing what's changing for chapters.
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To kick off National Volunteer Week (#NVW), Mariner Management is sharing 20 cool ideas on how to say thanks to your volunteers.
Welcome packets and emails can offer a good starting point for new members, but that may not be enough to keep them around. Here are some tips to help supercharge your member onboarding process.
Trying to figure out how to recruit new volunteers … and keep them around? This roundup of research-forged advice from association pros is more than enough to get you started.
What’s your top challenge going into 2022? Let's explore that and how to coach your chapter leadership for success.
Instead of looking back at what worked and didn’t work, let’s look ahead by strategizing on how we can build on the lessons we learned in the past 2 years.
Volunteers dedicate themselves to associations, but are associations keeping them in mind when times are hard? A mental health expert offers her insights on including volunteers in mental health outreach—and openly recognizing their struggles.
Ask yourself a question: When measuring your chapters’ performance, do you count things that reflect meaningful “effectiveness”?
We all know that our chapters do a lot of stuff, but is what they are doing effective? Are they moving the mission through their efforts or are they just checking all the boxes to satisfy the organizational metrics?
Use this time to reassess your volunteer training by considering flipping your training programs from a global “here’s what you need” to one that begins with "what the volunteer needs".