Membership
KatherineNCVO Third Sector Foresight are working with the RSA and a coalition of leading membership organisations (listed below) to undertake new research into what membership means and what motivates people to become members.
About The Future of Membership
The Future of Membership project, which will run until April 2010, is mapping the different challenges, strengths, purposes and models of membership, and developing strategic scenarios for the future.
The project grew out of the Membership Project, which sought to examine implications of developments in social media for membership organisations, (access the discussion here) and was also informed by the NESTA-funded RSA Networks project, which explored new ways of engaging with and working together with Fellows (members).
Find out more
- the drivers that are particularly relevant to membership organisations will be available on this page from late 2009
- there will be blog posts summarising implications of news stories, research and other developments relevant to membership throughout the project. You can see a list of links to these on the left of this page or see them in full detail on Katherine’s page
- the research will inform a Future Focus introductory guide to membership, to be published in March 2010
Get involved
- Read and comment on the news items to the left
- Save and annotate the relevant drivers on this page
- Email Katherine with suggestions and your experiences
- Follow Third Sector Foresight or Katherine on Twitter for updates and news
- Spread the word – use the hash tag #futureofmembership on twitter.
Partners
You can make notes on drivers and collect the most relevant ones by saving them to your profile.
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Feeling overwhelmed?
As you can see, there are many drivers that are shaping the future of voluntary and community organisations. The good news is that you can put most of them to one side in your own strategic planning.
Read our introduction to strategic analysis and find out how to sort and prioritise drivers. The guide takes you through the five stages of strategic analysis and there are templates to download to help you organise your thoughts.
