Operations
Marketing
- Finding Volunteers
- Thanking Volunteers
- Creating Marketing Materials
- sample membership brochure (feel free to use any part of this Word document)
- VIDEO: Shipley Munson's talk: Marketing Your Society (for IAJGS members only)
- Developing a Web Presence
- Creating Newsletters
- Working with Partners
- Fundraising
- Building Engagement with Jewish Organizations (coming soon)
- Using Social Media
- Attracting Younger Members
- VIDEO: Josh Taylor’s talk: On Attracting Youth--Hunting 21sters (for IAJGS members only)
- Retaining Members
Programs
- Developing Meeting Topics
- Getting to Know Your Members (Icebreakers)
- Finding Speakers
- Offering a Webinar
- Starting a Library
- Developing Outreach Programs
- Lecture Library (for IAJGS members only - Dozens of ready to use lectures on Jewish Genealogy)
- Model Education Program (under development)
- Five-Minute Videos on Using JewishGen
- Short Videos on Various Aspects of Jewish Genealogical Research from the JGS of Long Island
- Webinars for Society Growth and Management: HELP YOUR SOCIETY GROW
Additional Materials
- Create a JGS Manual (2013)
- Join the discussion on the IAJGS Leadership listserv: ask questions, share ideas, get help
- Join the IAJGS discussion on legislation that affects genealogy
- Calendar of Event of IAJGS and it's member organizations
- Best Practices of Genealogical Societies (a Pinterest board)
- More about Bylaws
- Starting a JGS: USA
- Starting a JGS: Non-USA (2012)
- Why Form a JGS (2014)
- Reasons for Joining a Genealogy Society
- Flyer: Why Join a JGS
- Reasons to Belong to IAJGS
- Guidelines for Effective Brainstorming (2002)
- Membership Brochure Template, Download PDF, Word DOC
- Promote and Market Your Society (2010)
- Start a JGS to Find the Past (1997), originally published in AVOTAYNU
Materials from the Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS)
- Strategies for Societies and Officers
- Strategies for Finding Volunteers
- FGS Webinars: Topics including Reaching Out to New Communities, Using Email, and Using Twitter
If you have any ideas or additional suggestions regarding best practices in JGS leadership or management, please email membership@iajgs.org.