Automatic Membership Renewals: Chapter Game Changers
Updated: Feb. 2, 2026 | Categories: Volunteers, Membership
Learn how adding an automatic membership renewal option to your association chapter benefits can increase membership and decrease the stress on your volunteers.
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How to Keep Your Volunteer Commitment when Life Gets Overwhelming
Updated: Jun. 9, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Board Overload
Learn the emotional, physical, behavioral and cognitive/mental signs of volunteer overwhelm. Read seven ways to make it easier for chapter leaders and volunteers to respond and adjust to avoid disappearing.
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The Five Love Languages: Showing Appreciation to Keep Association Chapter Volunteers Inspired
Updated: Feb. 3, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
Learn about the concepts discussed in Gary Chapman’s book, “The Five Love Languages. Understand how these topics can be applied to chapter volunteer engagement.
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Helping Members Find The “Best Fit” Chapter Volunteer Roles
Updated: Dec. 8, 2024 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
Learn six things that should be in your volunteer job postings that will help members find roles that they really enjoy and provide you with the support your chapter needs.
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Association Volunteer Sweat Equity – Making Every Drop Count
Updated: Dec. 4, 2023 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
Learn how sweat equity can be applied to association chapter organizations. Find the ways association chapters can keep that sweat equity producing the outcomes your chapter needs.
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5 ways to drive volunteers to say yes
Updated: Jul. 11, 2022 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
To give up their limited personal time, your members need to get something a little more tangible out of association chapter volunteering. Here are a few things about volunteering you may not have thought to tell them.
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How to keep volunteering feeling good
Updated: Jun. 6, 2022 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
Volunteering should feel like something your members want to do. Here are some things you can do and say to make volunteering in your chapter something members want to do, not feel like they must.
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Mutually Beneficial Volunteer Programs Increase Engagement and Retention
Updated: Dec. 29, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers
Do you have enough volunteers? Are they in the right roles? Matching the right person to the right volunteer opportunity is critical to your chapter’s continued success.
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When You Volunforce Members, Bad Things Happen
Updated: May. 27, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
When members are forced into taking positions, the end result could be devastating to the board and your chapter. Make your volunteer needs enticing and engaging and get more people to step into roles willingly.
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5 Ways to Revamp Your Volunteer Program
Updated: Jul. 28, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
We often hear about the struggle chapter leaders have when recruiting volunteers. A lot of times it’s the simple things that have the most impact. Check out our 5 ideas to help revamp your program.
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Perks That Show How You Value Your Volunteers
Updated: Sep. 22, 2020 | Categories: Volunteers, Volunteer Recruitment
Volunteers are the lifeblood of your organization and critical to your chapter’s success. Show volunteers and your entire membership that you value all they do for your chapter, with a few perks that keep them feeling engaged and ready to help again.
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Your Chapter is Missing Out if You’re Not Promoting Micro-volunteering
Updated: Nov. 25, 2024 | Categories: Volunteers
Are you having trouble finding people to execute your chapter projects? Perhaps micro-volunteering could help you get it all done and get more of your members involved.
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Brown Bag Lunches Can Help with your Volunteer Program
Updated: Sep. 19, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers
These relaxed, open forums allow for easy interactions between your volunteers and your general member base while giving you the chance to talk easily about the different chapter volunteer opportunities and drum up more interest in your programs.
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How to Overcome Volunteer Decline
Updated: Oct. 12, 2018 | Categories: Volunteers
Struggling to get volunteers? Here are 6 ways to counteract this and move one step closer to chapter success.
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Money Matters – Manage It Well
Updated: Mar. 25, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers
Why a bookkeeper or accountant is essential to the health of your chapter.
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Creating a Partnership of Content
Updated: Feb. 24, 2025 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Website
Learn more about how to interview and partner with sponsors to create content and build relationships to benefit your entire industry.
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Grow Your Chapter Through Partnership in Service
Updated: Oct. 12, 2018 | Categories: Volunteers, Meetings/Events
Build community through volunteerism within your local area and through partnerships with non-profit organizations.
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Forming Committees that Work for Your Chapter
Updated: Sep. 19, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Membership
It has been said that if you’re not moving forward, you’re falling behind—you should always be looking for new ideas, tools and programming to add value for your members. Even if your chapter has strong attendance and is in great health, now is the time t
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Invite Volunteers to Thrive
Updated: Jun. 6, 2018 | Categories: Volunteers, Membership
6 MUSTs to entice members to volunteer
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Part 3: Becoming a Leader in Your Chapter
Updated: Jun. 6, 2018 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Membership, Board Productivity
Part 3 of a 3-part series exploring the life cycle of a member. Part 3 provides a deeper look at active member’s transition into leadership and the corresponding engagement levels.
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3 Keys to Success Every Chapter President Should Know
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Board Productivity
Here is a 3-part model to shape the leadership style of incoming presidents aimed at realizing chapter success.
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Giving the Gift of Appreciation
Updated: Jun. 6, 2018 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Meetings/Events, Board Productivity, Website
Read these 9 tried and true ways to express gratitude to your members.
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The StarChapter Checklist for Successful Board Transitions
Updated: Feb. 14, 2018 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Board Productivity, Announcements
If your board’s term is reaching its end and a new leadership is about to take over, follow the StarChapter Checklist for Successful Board Transitions.
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The Value of Volunteers in Event Management
Updated: Feb. 24, 2026 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Meetings/Events
15 essential lessons to find volunteers for your events and keep them happy and engaged.
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What is Member Curated Content?
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Membership, Website
Show members their value to your chapter by inviting them to write the content and share their expertise.
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Shared Leadership for Tomorrow’s Chapter Leaders
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Surveys, Goal Setting
7 concrete ways to help your board volunteers build a shared leadership model for your chapter’s success.
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Part 2 – Marketing Ideas to Close out the Year
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Surveys, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
25 holiday and End of Year themed ideas that increase membership rates and non-dues revenues.
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Maximizing Member Value through Networking
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Fundraising, Meetings/Events
6 networking solutions to amplify membership value and drive success in your local chapter.
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Annual Event Team-building Ideas
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: Volunteers, Goal Setting, Meetings/Events
5 ways to build your team, enjoy time at an event, and share industry education.
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3 Ingredients to Creating Event Legacy
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Meetings/Events, Website
Successful post-event management is key to ensure the legacy of a job well done and an increase in membership participation.
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How to Win That Membership “Contest”
Updated: Oct. 23, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Membership
8 tried-and-true methods to accomplish success when it comes to managing membership growth.
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Introducing the Member-Sponsor Model
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Membership, Board Productivity
5 ways a member-sponsor model can empower the next generation of leaders while growing your chapter.
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The Board Refresher Every Chapter Needs
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity
The board experience drives the chapter – take a look at this refresher aimed at ensuring a successful chapter experience.
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A Member Story – The Shadow Days
Updated: Jul. 28, 2025 | Categories: Volunteers, Goal Setting, Membership
The Benefits of Shadow Days – exploring member stories through a day in the life of your members.
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How to Ensure Board Transition - New Article on GetApp
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity, StarChapter News
StarChapter was featured on GetApp! Check out the latest article about how to ensure board transitions.
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Member Mentorship Programs, A Step Toward Success
Updated: Nov. 30, 2021 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Goal Setting
3 types of one-on-one member engagement that provide 4 benefits to enhance career outcomes.
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The Power of Your Board
Updated: Aug. 30, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity
Revisiting 5 key actions for successfully improving board effectiveness and fulfill chapter mission and goals.
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Membership Discussions Now Open
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Member Communications, Volunteers, Membership
The 5 questions board members should ask themselves to better understand and manage membership.
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Seeking Former Leader Satisfaction
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Volunteers, Membership
Know the formula to successfully ensure chapter participation by satisfied former board members.
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Strategies for Board Transition Success
Updated: Mar. 28, 2024 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Surveys, Goal Setting, Membership
3 strategies to support volunteers as they transition off the board and into a new member status.
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Success with Member-Get-A-Member Recruitment
Updated: Mar. 13, 2026 | Categories: Volunteers, Surveys, Goal Setting, Membership
4 tactics to building a rewarding member-get-a-member program that fits the needs of your local chapter.
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Train Top Talent, Shape the Chapter’s Future
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity
Get the scoop on the Who, What, When, and Where of developing top chapter talent through training.
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Overcoming Information Overload
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Member Communications, Volunteers, Meetings/Events, Website
Try these 3 tried-and-true methods for getting people to read about or watch your events.
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(Infographics) StarChapter Year In Review
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Surveys, Goal Setting, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website, StarChapter News
As we say goodbye to 2015, we wanted to reflect on this epic year in an amazing infographic and celebrate our chapters’ accomplishments.
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The 5 AMS Benefits: A Refresher
Updated: Nov. 21, 2022 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Membership, Meetings/Events, Revenues, Website
There are many reasons to use an AMS to manage your association chapter. Here are 5 benefits to StarChapter’s software you might not have thought of.
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Reward Volunteers with Praise
Updated: Mar. 28, 2024 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Website
Chapter volunteers want to know how valuable they really are, here are a few ideas on how to do that.
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4 Ways to Prepare Now for the End of the Year
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity
2016 is just around the corner. Start tackling these tasks to have a stress-free year-end
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Focus on Value, Not Membership Milestones
Updated: Aug. 31, 2017 | Categories: Volunteers, Goal Setting, Membership, Revenues
Instead of trying to increase the number of association members, consider increasing the value your organization provides. Membership numbers will grow as a result.
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Start Your Next Board Transition Now
Updated: Oct. 31, 2022 | Categories: StarChapter Admin, Volunteers, Goal Setting, Board Productivity
Why it is never too early to start training your board members’ successors?
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The Do’s and Don’ts of Succession Planning
Updated: May. 14, 2026 | Categories: Volunteers, Board Productivity
How do you prepare the organization you manage for the day you step out of your leadership position? The 4 Do’s and Don’ts of successful succession planning.
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