BFMA Announces the Restructuring of Headquarters Function

By: Lisa Lee, CEBS, FLMI
President

Each year, during Symposium, BFMA conducts its annual meeting. This year, we made a major announcement that, we believe, will usher in a new era of growth and contribution to our industry.

We have selected an association management company (AMC) to which we will outsource the association administration, marketing, event management and technology implementation activities. Leveraging the skills of an AMC will help to improve service to our members, get the association on a growth track, improve support to our sponsors, and better leverage technology. This decision was reached by the Board of Directors after updating our strategic options and examining the state of the association.

The headquarters function will be assumed by the Center for Association Resources, an association management and consulting firm for non-profit organizations located in the Chicago area. We expect to complete the transition by July 1. At that time, we will close the Portland office. After 20 years of service, Andy Palatka will be leaving BFMA. We appreciate his service and wish him well in his future endeavors.

We believe this is an exciting time for the forms management profession. We have identified thousands of practitioners in forms management, forms analysis, forms design, forms programming, and related skills and have started marketing efforts to effectively reach out to them on a regular basis. Using our web site, Forms Talk, LiveMeeting, and StreamSend, we have implemented regular communications with all members and prospects. We are continuing our efforts to find additional prospective members and sponsors and to reach out to them.

We will keep you informed of our progress. In the meantime, please respond to this article with any questions, concerns and suggestions. We know that the key to our success as an association depends on active support from all of us.

More information and details will be forthcoming.

Comments

[D. Sones]

Good luck with this change. Sounds like the right thing to do!