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ANA grows membership by reexamining value proposition

Group manages to turn around years of declines by cutting dues and implementing best practices for recruiting new members Front page of ANA's membership application form. Just a few years ago the American Nurses Association was on life support, bleeding members as state nursing associations broke away from the national organization. ANA has since made almost a full recovery and in the process learned lessons that could prove useful for other groups seeking to grow their memberships. "Our leadership was wise enough to recognize that a Band-Aid or aspirin would not do the trick here," Carol Cohen, ANA's director of membership development, told attendees at last month's ASAE… Read More