11/20/2017

Membership Hack: Call for Micro-Volunteers

How an online forum can help you motivate your membership

The National Society of Genetic Counselors (NSGC) uses an online discussion forum to put out a call each time it needs members to take on small, ad-hoc volunteer tasks.

How to hack it? Whenever it needs volunteers, the NSGC quickly posts a message to a digital forum found on its members-only community. The group keeps NSGC members informed about small ad-hoc and micro-volunteering opportunities.

“We have a highly engaged membership, but you want to harness that engagement and excitement in a productive way,” says Executive Director Meghan Carey. “This forum has allowed us to find some really fantastic people.”

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.