Nonprofit and public-sector boards are feeling increasing pressure to respond to more rapid changes, according to a new report, but few board members describe themselves as forward-looking. Governance ...

Look at the revenue of any association and you’ll see a media business. There’s a flagship magazine and a newsletter. There’s a website with a steady audience of professionals. There’s an annual ...

Halloween means a lot of things: costumes, candy (I’ll save a few of those bite-size Whoppers for myself, thanks), scary movies. For leaders, it also means entering the home stretch of the calendar ...

Some of the most memorable moments at a meeting or convention happen when attendees connect through shared experiences outside the scheduled program. That might be over dinner with a new connection, ...

It can be difficult to tell at moments like this whether an association board is better off developing a five-year strategic plan, a five-month plan, or a 15-year plan. And for all that, we know that ...

The most valuable room at your next association meeting may not be a meeting room. Imagine a technical discussion that continues in the orbit of a leading research institution. An architectural ...

Picture your marketing team’s workday one day in the future. It probably looks like less time spent drafting emails and pulling reports, and more hours spent reviewing and fine-tuning the work a ...

Meeting planners are cautiously optimistic as they look toward 2027, according to a new report, concerned about economic and political headwinds. The American Express Global Business Travel Global ...

Associations are investing more in government relations work, according to a new survey, but typically doing it with small staffs. The 2026 Government Relations Benchmarking Survey for Associations, ...

In 2023, the American Academy of Pain Medicine (AAPM) was invited by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to apply for a $2 million grant to develop guidance for clinicians to treat low-back pain.

When people working in associations say they “wear many hats”—as they often do—they usually say it sweetly, as a kind of in-joke. But they’re speaking in code: What they’re actually saying is, “I’m ...

For many meeting attendees, lunch is simply a break between sessions. At Rosen Centre Hotel in Orlando, Florida, it can be the moment everyone remembers. A networking lunch becomes a social event. A ...