Organizing Your Association: A Checklist Approach

Markcheck Publishing has released a publication, titled, Organizing Your Association: A Checklist Approach", a two volume set totalling 800 pages.

Organizing Your Association: A Checklist Approach is a comprehensive reference tool that will help in establishing, operating and marketing Associations. A tremendous amount of thought and organization has gone into the preparation of this book. It is unique, well organized, practical, extensive, and different from other known publications on associations.
It is a good reference for all levels of an association.

The wealth of information contained in each chapter helps you to think about and consider just what it is that you have to do to run an association and make it successful. Board members, staff and volunteers will derive great benefit from using this book.

The checklist approach is designed to identify to, remind and prompt, individuals to think about the ideas, issues and items that they must act upon every day.

The book presents an organized and flexible approach, providing choice and selection, in a user friendly format, that covers all the elements. It is concise, clean, clearly written, easy to follow and allows you to find information quickly. The information is presented under major chapter headings. There are comprehensive subject and cross referencing indexes and a complete reference section in each volume.

For existing associations, it provides the tools to allow them to see what they need to see in order to go back and check to see if they're doing it. It provides the template to review and re-think what they're doing and how they're doing it. It serves as a memory jogger, a reminder of what's missing or what there is to do.

For new associations, it provides them with a template to follow, and what they need to know in order to do what they have to do.

Mark Hiltz spent two years and over 500 hours in researching, accumulating, collecting, reviewing, organizing, developing and formulating association information into the checklists.

With the electronic format, an association has the flexibility to copy and paste and customize checklists to suit their own requirements and needs.

It consists of:

Previously, two individual volumes, soft cover, spiral bound. Now available in electronic format only (see order form). There are 400 pages in each volume, and 30 chapters in total.
Information can be retrieved using MS Word or Word Perfect formats on Windows 98 and subsequent operating systems.
The publication is only available in english
ISBN #0-9697202-7-0

How customers are using it:

• To govern, administer, plan programs and projects, recruit volunteers, market and promote the association's activities, arrange special events and develop products.
• As a planning tool.
• As a helpful guide and a reminder of activities and tasks which may otherwise get overlooked.
• To help stimulate the teams ability to brainstorm against what is provided in the checklists.
• To familiarize and train people.
• As a basis to create in house procedures.
• As a handy reference for staff, volunteers and board members.
• As a reference book for association management courses.
  

Topics covered include:

Volume 1 (400 pages) Governance, Planning and Operations Getting Started Governance Volunteers Planning Management Policies Administration Facilities/Systems/Technology Meetings and Presentations Funding Financial Legal Professionalism and Ethics Human Relations Recognition Parent Organization Projects References Subject Index Cross Reference Index

Volume 2 (400 pages) Marketing, Membership, Products & Services Stakeholders Marketing and Promotion Communications and Public/Media Relations Membership Membership Services Program Professional Development Fundraising Sponsorship Special Events Organizing Products, Services & Business Opportunities External Relations Forms References Subject Index Cross Reference Index

Take a look at who is using Organizing Your Association.

• Associations (new and existing, large and small)
  
• Registered Charities
  
• Health / Social / Welfare / Religious
  
• Association Management Firms
  
• Consultants
  
• Education / Training
  
• International Aid and Development
  
• Art / Culture / Recreational / Sports / Community / Political
  
• Auditors
  
• Fundraising Consultants
  
• Foundations
  
• Convention and Visitor Bureaus, Hotels
• Libraries
• Chambers of Commerce
• Trade Associations
• Licensing/Regulatory
• NCO's
• Network Groups

Some of the benefits of using Organizing Your Association.

1. Helps you to realize what running an association is all about.
2. Gives your association something to measure itself against. ie: a benchmarking tool.
3. Can take away, customize and use immediately. For new organizations, it gives them a template to follow. It gives them the knowledge to behave like a business.
4. Provides continuity within an association as staff and volunteers come and go.

Some of the benefits of using any of the Markcheck Publications

1. Makes your job easier.
2. Avoids costly errors and saves time.
3. A one stop full-package solution.
4. Stimulates creativity
5. Reduces the oversight of important factors
6. Helps to trigger thoughts and generate new ideas.
7. Provides a starting point.
8. Takes the guess work out of what you have to think about.
9. Assists you in becoming more organized, flexible and more productive.
10. Facilitates planning and goal setting.
11. Easy to follow and use.
12. Reduces initial pandemonium.
13. Eliminates re-creating the wheel.