New course in 2010

Gaining Membership Mastery - for Beginners

A comprehensive one day training program covering every aspect of membership and revenue growth for those who are new or inexperienced membership managers, volunteers or staff who deal with members (and donors) but have never been fully trained.

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Running in Perth April 14

A few comments from Melbourne attendees.

First Class!
Cathy Workman - Australian Dental Association, VIC

Well presented and clear - extensive knowledge of case studies.
John Moore - Summer Fruit Australia

Kevin is very knowledgable.
Joy Walker - Gordon Care for Children

Very professional. Super quality and very useful... appreciate the support I have received.
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Gaining Membership Mastery - for Professionals

A three hour quality seminar, delivered by Kevin Cahalane, Principal of Membership Growth. What ever your role in membership development, you will not want to miss this presentation from one of Australia's leading membership and member revenue growth professionals.

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Member Service (and Sales) Excellence

Turn your Member Service department into a revenue generation powerhouse. A dynamic one day workshop, designed for Not-for-Profit Membership Managers, Member Services Managers, General Managers, Sales Managers, Admin Managers, Team Leaders and Key staff that will give you the tools and resources to build member relationships and loyalty, recruit more members, keep member renewals strong, earn significantly more member revenue.. and recession-proof your organisation in 2010 and beyond.

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A few comments from the Adelaide workshop attendees

Very informative, love the support material! I am sure I will use this for years to come.
T Van Zomeron - Women in Balance

Interesting ideas delivered in workshop - Kevin shows a great deal of experience.
B Hillyard - Trees for Life

Excellent, informative, entertaining.
E Marshall - Australian Refugee Association

These Workshops and Seminar will be presented by Kevin Cahalane, Principle of Membership Growth one of Australia's leading Membership and member revenue growth professionals.

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The recent changes to industrial relations legislation has really changed the landscape for many non-profit employers.  One of the more important areas is unfair dismissal - now possibly affecting many more organisations.

NFPN members have direct access to our Employer Assist service with reduced rates, fact sheets, and diagnotic tools to help them comply and avoid the pitfalls of the new rules.  If you have a HR or IR question then simply contact one of our team.

The NFPN Awards finalists have finally (no pun intended) been handed to us by the judges... you can see who made it right here.

You may not be aware but our Twitter stream carries a massive number of resources.  Out team keeps a vigilant eye on the web and we try to put as much useful (without overload) information through to our followers on Twitter.

Take the time to look back over our Twitter updates - there's many a treasure to be found!  You can follow us at twitter.com/nfpn

After a brief hiatus our popular Supplier Directory is back online.  We gave it a mini-makeover, just like we have with the rest of our website over the past few months.

With some new suppliers and many favourites still there (because they get so many new referrals from their listing!) there's plenty of choice for most services you'll need in your non-profit organisation.

...online communications - that's the feature article in the August issue of Not-For-Profit Management magazine in which Brett de Hoedt, Mayor of Hootville, takes us back to online basics - it's all about learning to walk online before you can run. Get your copy of the magazine here...

...is a CREATIVE one!  That's the feature article in the latest issue of Not-For-Profit Management. Having gone all digitial in 2009 this issue is the first to use our new online platform.

You can read the magazine and sample the whizz-bang new technology right now.  If you like it contact us and we can arrange for your publications to go paper-free, online, and become easily accessible.

Here's a selection of books we recommend. If there's some non-profit books you think are worthwile sharing, let us know and we'll add them to our Must Reads! list.

Having seen most books on membership and marketing for non-profits we were pretty skeptical that any resource could help us write better membership and marketing copy.

However, our expectations were quickly blown away when I received CopyLink.

This 124 page e-book provides a serious and susbstantive way to make your copy leap from the page - attracting more media, and helping you to recruit and retain your member, donors, clients, and customers.

Designed for membership and marketing staff, offering a proven, low cost, easy to use program we can thoroughly say that CopyLink is a marketing and advertising copywriting (and training) program that you will treasure. We highly recommend it.

We're exhibiting at the Building Community Centered Economies conference from 18-19 June being held at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition and Centre.  Drop by and visit our booth if you get a chance.