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As more and more volunteer organizations vie for less and less available time, the need for effective professional management becomes increasingly critical.
But the traditional answers of maintaining full-time staff and office facilities or operating with volunteers, who often lack time, experience, and expertise in key areas, result in a major investment in overhead and inefficiencies as long-term goals get lost in day-to-day details.
An alternative concept is the association management firm. Such a firm is a company with skilled professionals whose goal is to provide management expertise and specialized administrative services to trade associations and professional societies in an efficient, cost-effective manner.
Based on the concept of shared resources, an association management company provides volunteer organizations with the expertise they need when they need it. TRO typically assigns executives and administrators to conduct the association's day-to-day operations.
Specialists are drawn from the pool of personnel resources and are assigned on an as-needed basis to special projects. Each association pays only for the hours the staff specialists work on tasks and benefits from the staff for a fraction of the cost.
An association management company also provides a centralized office that serves as the association's headquarters.
Hiring a professional association to manage your association is an alternative that offers significant advantages. Your leadership can focus on industry issues and policy decisions, and a management firm will develop and implement programs to meet those policy objectives.
Based on our experience with other associations TRO can serve in an advisory capacity to your association on a full range of issues.
Contact us to learn how we can help you.