05/20/2019

Membership Hack: Virtual Chapters

You can serve members outside your local community

Chapters don’t always have to be about serving members in the same local community or state. At NIGP, the Institute for Public Procurement, virtual chapters connect members with similar interests from thousands of miles away.

How to hack it? If you have chapters spread across the country or around the world, it’s not easy to go the distance and get members engaged. That’s why NIGP set up a virtual chapter to connect members far away from each other in Alaska and Hawaii.

In a recent Billhighway article, Jeff Dansdill, past president of the Alaska-Hawaii Governmental Procurement Association (AHGPA), explains how the two states came together three years ago to form one virtual chapter.

Please select this link to read the complete article from Associations Now.