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Category: Club Director

Club Safety Compliance and Best Practices

HOW DO YOU ADDRESS SAFETY? Are you proactive or reactive? Or do you not do anything because you don’t know what you don’t know? All clubs want to protect their employees from undue harm. Carefully assessing and addressing on-the-job hazards and reviewing federal and state safety

Financing Capital Expenditures

In reviewing financing for proposed capital expenditure projects, clubs consider the following alternatives: Finance from operations. Those fortunate clubs that have funds available from operations for capital expenditure projects can use this most favorable option. Usually, this is not the case. Assess the membership. The

Building Your Club’s Brand: A Direction Home

Bruce Springsteen said “[it] sounded like somebody’d kicked open the door to your mind” when he first heard Bob Dylan’s 1965 anthem “Like a Rolling Stone.” With that song Dylan dramatically influenced the creative sphere of making music—even more so than its commercial impact. Change

The Greening of America: Environmental Sustainability Outlook

Environmental awareness and action are becoming increasingly important to Americans. This includes raised expectations for organizations to be stewards. This macro perspective will analyze the impact of the environmental movement on American businesses and ways various organizations implement sustainable practices. Boomers, Wealthy, Walking the Walk

Don’t Become a “Designated Felon”

Club management is difficult enough without having an understanding of where potential environmental risks and liabilities might lie throughout the business. For instance, recently a golf course in Maryland received a $15,000 regulatory fine resulting from discharges of pollutants into buffer zones, along with discharges

Keys to Uncontested Elections

As the election season heats up, it’s easy for people involved in club leadership to draw parallels—for better and worse—which begs many at clubs to ask, “Should we use a contested or uncontested method for electing board members?” Choosing an Election Process If given complete

Membership Directors

Why is it so hard for my club to find a membership director? It’s difficult to find what you’re looking for because the title does not always define the role. Prior to 2007, a membership director fulfilled the role by way of processing member applications

First Person: Timothy Sullivan

I knock on wood every time I think about how clubs have influenced my life. I grew up in Detroit in its heyday, the 1950s and 60s, when people flocked to the Motor City for jobs either in or relating to the auto industry. In

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