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Track legislative bills
The 2016 ISAE Legislative Committee is monitoring and tracking the bills submitted for consideration during this legislative session. Keep track of them here. Do you have a bill you feel should be monitored? Email Destiny Nance-Evans to have it reviewed by the ISAE Legislative Committee.
Applications are open for the 2016 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Award
The Illinois Sustainable Technology Center (ISTC) is now accepting applications for the 2016 Illinois Governor's Sustainability Awards. This award is the nation's longest-standing state environmental award program that annually honors organizations and businesses who have made a commitment to the environment through implementation of outstanding and innovative sustainability practices. The deadline for submitting your application is May 20. Applications will only be accepted electronically. Information, evaluation criteria, sample applications and more can be found here.
Committee opportunities
Get involved and maximize your membership with ISAE by volunteering for a committee. Click here to see a list of available committee opportunities and to sign up.
ISAE is now a CMP Preferred Provider
ISAE is pleased to announce we are now a Certified Meeting Planner (CMP) Preferred Provider. Stay tuned for programs where CMP credit is available.
Thank you for renewing!
Thank you to those who have renewed their ISAE 2016 Membership! To see a complete list of who all will be back for 2016, please click here. For those of you who haven't renewed yet, do so now by clicking here.
Blog much?
ISAE is looking for a few good bloggers! Click
here to submit blog post.
Download the NEW ISAE Organizational App!
ASAE Inroads
The latest issue of ASAE Inroads is out. The topics included in this edition are:
GAO report looks at lobbyists’ compliance
ASAE weighs in on NC discriminatory law
Tax-exempt audits fall off at IRS
One month left for Power of A AwardsRead the entire issue of ASAE Inroads here.
Share your news with ISAE!
Check out the new Member News & Updates section of the website. Email dnance-evans@firminc.com with events, important information, etc.
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Always keep up with ISAE through the ISAE Blog.
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SocialFish
By rethinking their entire membership model, re-examining their member needs and digital habits, and re-evaluating collaborative relationships with partner organizations, discover how one small staff association is doing big things to redesign how they provide member value. Learn how they embarked on a data-driven, innovative, holistic and wide-reaching strategy to create an open, inclusive, content-driven community based membership model that connects online and offline engagement in whole new ways.
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Associations Now
If you don’t take the time to visit your association’s members and observe how they work, you might have an incomplete picture of what they need. Here’s what several association professionals have to say about the value of visiting members.
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MemberClicks
With so many different communication channels out there - websites, newsletters, emails, and more - communicating with your association’s stakeholders can often seem overwhelming. What channels are the most effective? How often should you be sending out messages? What types of messages should you be communicating in the first place? The list of questions goes on and on. Fortunately, Nonprofit Marketing Guide recently released their sixth annual Nonprofit Communications Trends Report to help nonprofits understand how other similar organizations are communicating with their key constituents.
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The Demand Networks
It is hard to think beyond business as usual when your products and processes generate steady streams of revenue. And this is the problem. Associations are flush with organizations whose success is narrowly defined, for example through membership and retention numbers as they relate to the sales of one product or product category. What is not being measured, however, includes factors such as: their customers’ levels of engagement; their organization's relevance to members’ strategic challenges and the solutions needed; their ability to constantly deepen their relationship to members and expand the value they provide to them; their capacity to adapt, innovate and reinvent the basis of their value proposition.
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By William D. Pawlucy
 Have you ever attended a meeting and felt like nothing was achieved? Using meeting rules of order is the key to a high-performing organization. In 1876, Army engineer Henry Martyn Robert published "Robert's Rules of Order" to establish a firm set of guidelines for conducting meetings and making decisions. These rules of order still hold up, and here is a quick look at Robert's formal meeting procedures and how they are used in meetings today.
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Association Hub
Associations should always be looking for ways to boost their members' success. With that in mind here are three simple steps nonprofit leadership can take to get to know members better.
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Socious
If you play your cards right, getting your association’s board to support, promote, and participate in your online community should not be a heavy lift. Instead of asking, begging, and cajoling, there are a number of things you can do to increase your board’s participation on your online community.
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Event Garde
There are millions of resources about cognitive science so it’s easy to suffer from information overload. But a new report by nonprofit organization Deans for Impact summarizes some of the latest research on the science of learning. The report is targeted to teachers and traditional educators, but since education is crucial to the event, meetings and nonprofit industries, “The Science of Learning” is an awesome resource.
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Event Manager Blog
Have you ever wondered what drives our decisions and why customers make the purchasing choices that they do? Here are four ways of understanding the emotions behind our decision making and how you can use this to drive your future event sales.
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