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April 2023: A Sneak Peak of the 2024 World Conference Site

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 21 days ago
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March 2023: The 2023 State of Our Association

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 03-13-2023
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February 2023: Broadening Our CMAA Communities

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 02-10-2023
Hello CMAA! I hope to see many of you at the World Conference and Club Business Expo later this month. We have excellent registration numbers that have exceeded our member and supplier expectations. To accommodate everyone, we added two additional hotels for attendees, and we will be running a daily ...
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January 2023: Our Goals

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 01-17-2023
Hello CMAA and Happy New Year! As 2023 begins I want to share our CMAA goals for the new year. These goals are established by the Board of Directors and CMAA’s professional staff each fall and coincide with our fiscal year beginning November 1. These are listed in no priority order: Update CMAA’s ...
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December 2022: Engaging, Empowering, and Connecting

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 12-13-2022
Hello CMAA! As 2022 nears an end, I want to share some of our accomplishments from the past year. You will receive a more thorough update in CMAA’s Annual Report, released near the World Conference. I will also be sharing more in my State of the Association live at Conference. Next month, I will ...
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November 2022: What Makes a Great Volunteer?

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 11-15-2022
Hello CMAA! One thing we all have in common is volunteers who shape our clubs and our Association. We all have volunteer committee members, and/or board members. A legal definition would share that a volunteer “is an individual who performs hours of service for a public agency for civic, charitable, ...
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October 2022: Club Employee Demographic Assessment

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 10-18-2022
Hello CMAA! I grew up in a small town of a few thousand people in northeastern Pennsylvania (the Poconos). While I wouldn’t change the experience where I lived, my upbringing gave me so many biases. Let me explain; it was never said, but we believed those from rural areas like my town, were not quite ...
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September 2022: Effecting Change

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 09-19-2022
Hello CMAA! A few weeks ago, I went to the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE)’s annual conference. I have belonged to ASAE for more than 30 years and rarely miss attending, except for other obligations--or more recently, COVID. It was the first time we have gathered in three years and ...
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August 2022: Exploring the Dues Increase

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 08-16-2022
CMAA National Headquarters Alexandria, VA Hello CMAA Members! I want to share my thoughts on member dues, specifically CMAA National dues. I know your clubs have seen costs rise with the dramatic jump in inflation. I suspect the vast majority of you have already implemented or are contemplating member ...
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July 2022: Expanding Your Network with Peer Groups

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 07-19-2022
Hello CMAA! How many of you belong to a peer/mastermind/support group – or more than one? I counted mine and I have four that are really core to my interests and principles. They range from a kitchen cabinet within CMAA that I look to for insight and feedback, to a couple of industry peer groups, and ...
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June 2022: Fishing

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 06-13-2022
Hello CMAA! Throughout my career in association management, each organization I have been with has always had an advocacy-related role at the federal or state level. We would regularly conduct member fly-ins to DC; had a team of association staff working in a federal and a state legislative affairs department; ...
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May 2022: Embodying Meaningful Success

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 05-17-2022
I recently saw a CMAA member’s post on LinkedIn that shared a concept called “meaningful success.” Meaningful success marks the points in time when: 1) we are doing things we love, 2) we are doing it well, and 3) we are serving others. These times can occur in our career, at home, or any place in life. ...
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April 2022: Managing Stress

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 04-19-2022
Hello CMAA Members! In some respects, the last two years of life in a pandemic have been a blur. I can hardly remember the early days of worries about restriction of nonessential travel between states; the closing of non-essential businesses for a time; or not having toilet paper! But like you, I have ...
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March 2022: Trust

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 03-14-2022
Hello CMAA! My sincere thanks to all who attended the World Conference and Club Business Expo in San Diego, CA. It was exactly the break we needed to recharge and spend time with each other. Thank you for making this Conference a special one. 2022 Executive Committee February 2022 San Diego, CA ...
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February 2022: Looking Back by the Numbers

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 02-14-2022
Numbers are an arithmetical value, expressed by a word, symbol, or figure, representing a particular quantity and used in counting and making calculations and for showing order in a series or for identification. February is when CMAA releases its annual report, audit, and I share an update in my State ...
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January 2022: Embracing New Leadership Goals

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 01-17-2022
Happy New Year CMAA! It was President Harry S. Truman who said, “Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.” I know many of you subscribe to this quote and I do too. As we kick off the new year, I want to share some leadership messages I have read over the past few months that resonated ...
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December 2021: Our 2022 Organizational Goals

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 12-13-2021
Hello CMAA Members and Happy Holidays from all of us on the CMAA team! We hope you, your family, and your club have a joyous holiday season. While we still have a few weeks before we officially welcome the new year, CMAA began its 2022 fiscal year on November 1. We will be sharing a review of this past ...
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November 2021: The World Conference Health & Safety Policy Details

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 11-16-2021
February 19-23, 2022 San Diego, CA Hello, CMAA! Registration for the 2022 World Conference and Club Business Expo opened in late October and sign ups to date are impressive! Like you, I am really looking forward to being back live and in person in San Diego, CA, February 19-23. As a community, we ...
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October 2021: Be Like Betty White

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 10-12-2021
Hello CMAA members! I am in an ‘80s mood as I write this. I hope I can get you there too. I have the voice of Chris Clews bouncing around in my head from his talk at CMAA’s Leadership/Legislative Conference where he used ‘80s movies that were imbedded with leadership lessons. Like Ferris Bueller, from ...
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September 2021: Forecasting the Year's End

By Jeffrey Morgan posted 09-09-2021
Hello CMAA members! For those of you who attended CMAA’s Leadership/Legislative Conference (LLC) it was great to see you. At the start of LLC, one of our traditions is for the National Board of Directors to share some of the Board and Committee related activities from the past year. I also have the opportunity ...
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