Strategic Planning During a Pandemic
How do you do a strategic plan during a pandemic? Answer: sprint strategy sessions.
Executive Director 101 Series: What Executive Directors Need to Know About Sponsorship and Fundraising
You are an Executive Director of an association or chamber of commerce. How do you tackle the challenge of raising funds and securing sponsors? Here are 5 strategies that any executive director can use.
Executive Director 101 Series: What Executive Directors Need to Know About Financial Management
Here are 5 tips all Executive Directors need to know about financial management to be successful.
Executive Director 101 Series: What New Executive Directors Need to Know About Membership
You are a new Executive Director of an association or chamber of commerce, now what? Here are 5 tips and truths you need to know about membership to be successful in your new role.
Tips to Exponentially Increase Your Digital Fundraising
How to reverse engineer an attainable fundraising goal
As a former Executive Director of several large-scale nonprofits, I know how complex it can be to develop a strong fundraising strategy that will appease a BoD, while also ensuring you’re not setting overly aggressive goals that will drive your over-worked fundraising...
Building an action-oriented website
We have worked with nearly every website building tool out there- like, all of them. There are a lot, and it can be very overwhelming for anyone to make decisions about what is most important to include in your website. Have you thought about hierarchy of pages linked...
How to Evaluate Your Association’s Events & Programs
It’s no secret that in order to attract and retain members, associations offer a variety of events and programs customized to meet the interests, wants, and needs of their audiences. A strategically planned event or program relies upon various evaluation measures to...
Member Benefits – The Key to Growth
Knowing your members and potential members well is the key to maintaining and growing your association’s membership base. When we identify and address member struggles, interests, and goals, and provide the tools and resources they need, members come to stay! ...