Chapter 9. Growing Your Membership and Interacting with Members
If you are a member-based organization—whether a professional or trade association, a society, or a charitable not-for-profit organization using membership structures to encourage recurring support—your members are your lifeblood. They are most likely your primary constituents, and much of your organizational identity and vision revolves around serving their needs. Having an integrated system to solicit, retain, and manage your members is essential to your organization's success. As such, you will want to take advantage of CiviCRM's membership management tools.
In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:
- Reviewing the initial setup and configuration of membership structures in CiviCRM
- Understanding how the daily management tools work
- Soliciting new members and retaining existing members with online forms
- Searching and building reports to track members
- Putting membership in context and reviewing...
