Surveys Association Industry Trends
GrowthZone’s 12th Annual Association Survey highlights the key membership trends shaping 2026, based on insights from 500+ associations across the U.S. and Canada. This benchmark report delivers actionable data on engagement, retention, revenue, and financial outlooks to help associations plan with confidence.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
The 2026 Chamber Survey Results provide a data-driven view of the challenges and opportunities shaping chamber engagement, finances, and member retention—backed by insights from nearly 500 chambers.
Budgeting
Discover clear, practical tips for effectively planning for your next fiscal year.
Association Industry Trends AMS Tools
Learn how to adapt your association to upcoming trends for sustainable growth.
Member Engagement Community
Stop guessing what drives member connection. Get the blueprint for engaging with members at every level.
Member Engagement Community
Get more from your membership and learn how to navigate your community platform.
Community AMS Tools
Discover how association management software can simplify your day to day.
Member Engagement Community
Discover how the right community can empower your members, reduce workload, keep members coming back, and more.
Member Engagement Community
Explore the strategies that are essential to helping associations thrive.
Community Member Engagement
See how your current community platform stacks up and if it's time for a change.
Member Engagement Community
Learn more about the imporance of virtual and communities and how they help your organization succeed.
AMS Tools Education-Specific
Find out if your tech stack is supporting your education association or getting in the way of true collaboration.
AMS Tools Medical-Specific
Discover which tasks to streamline—and how—to better support your team.
AMS Tools AI
Find out how to optimize your newsletters and strengthen your community.
AMS Tools
What's working? What's not? Where can your AMS improve? Find out with this checklist.
Revenue Chamber-Specific
Future-proof your chamber with these tips on how to diversify your income.
Member Engagement Community
Learn how to increase member engagement and retention, streamline operations, and deliver more value to your members.
Member Engagement AMS Tools
Is your AMS giving you the insights you need to improve member experiences and increase revenue?
Revenue AMS Tools
Future-proof your association with these tips on how to diversify your income.
Member Engagement
Learn how to build a thriving online community that delivers lasting value.
Member Engagement
Discover the top challenges for construction associations and how to overcome them.
Member Engagement Real Estate-Specific
Learn how to drive growth, enhance collaboration, engage members effectively, and more.
AMS Tools
Discover the benefits of a data warehouse and how to better make strategic, data-driven decisions with your AMS.
Growth
10 things you can do today to increase non-dues revenue using technology you probably already have.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Get a detailed look at the trends, challenges, and strategies shaping associations.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
Get a detailed look at the trends, challenges, and strategies shaping chambers.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s 10th annual survey.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
Chamber of commerce professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s 10th annual survey.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s 9th annual survey.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
Chamber of commerce professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s 9th annual survey.
Surveys Association Industry Trends Medical-Specific
Medical & healthcare association professionals across the U.S. and Canada provided a look at the inner workings of their organizations when they replied to GrowthZone’s survey.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
In its 8th year, the Association Survey Results Report is always our most downloaded document for association pros.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
Every year, the Chamber Survey Results report is our most downloaded document for chamber of commerce professionals.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Every year, the Real Estate Association Survey Results report is our most downloaded document for real estate association professionals.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Every year, the Association Survey Results report is our most downloaded document for association pros.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Read the 2021 report to see how your building association compares.
Surveys Chamber-Specific
Every year, the Chamber Survey Results report is our most downloaded document for chamber of commerce professionals.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Download the 2021 report to see how your real estate association compares.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
This year’s survey results report includes up-to-date member statistics and insightful feedback from association professionals across the U.S. and Canada.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
The report contains specific strategies used by successful real estate associations to increase engagement rates, data on associations’ position on public policy advocacy, and predictions for consolidation of real estate associations.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
Every year, the survey report is our most downloaded document.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
1,000 association professionals across the U.S. and Canada gave us a look at the inner workings of their organizations.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
GrowthZone surveyed nearly 1,000 association professionals across the U.S. and Canada. Topics included everything from health insurance coverage, to the Top 10 challenges holding them back, to what they wished their board knew.
Surveys Association Industry Trends
We surveyed over a thousand association professionals across the U.S. and Canada.
Growth
Admit it, sometimes you sit down at the computer to make a social media post for your association and your mind goes blank.
Growth Website
Is your association’s website providing real value?
AMS Tools
We’re so excited to share this all-new e-book featuring 5 replicable, chamber-facilitated professional development programs for women.
Chamber-Specific
The GrowthZone team recently reviewed every submission from 6 years of the Chamber Innovation Competition.
AMS Tools
Running an association isn’t always easy, but there’s good news: Association operations don’t have to be challenging.
Chamber-Specific
Spending too much time managing the day-to-day operations of your chamber of commerce? Maybe it’s time to find a better way.
AMS Tools
Promote your association with our association-themed coloring book. Or use it yourself to enjoy the relaxing and popular hobby of coloring.
AMS Tools
There are many association management software (AMS) vendors to choose from. However, each solution on the market is unique.
Growth
If you’re new to writing marketing plans or working at an association, this tip sheet is for you.
Growth
The Marketing Toolkit is a collection of three critical resources developed specifically for association professionals.
Growth
Increase member engagement AND keep spirits high
Member Engagement
It’s time to rethink new-member onboarding
AMS Tools
When members find themselves struggling in a tough economy, a crisis, or facing major policy changes that affect their business, your builder association can demonstrate leadership by helping members look beyond a short-term bump in the road.
AMS Tools
Planning on attending a networking event? Learn how to make it count.
Growth
The results include dozens of quotes from construction association execs about challenges facing their organizations.
Growth
Whether your membership community is based on geography, centered on an industry, or built on a common interest, everyone can use a little help right now.
Growth Website
Don’t just build it and forget it; update your association’s website to make it rock.
Growth
Education association professionals across the U.S. and Canada gave us a look at the inner workings of their organizations.
AMS Tools
Increase member participation when conducting member surveys with a simple three-step process.
Member Engagement
We all have those members who make their payments annually, but they rarely utilize your organization in any other way.
Association Industry Trends
The Financial and Insurance Associations Survey respondents shared details on everything from health insurance coverage to event attendance trends.
Member Engagement
Get our new-member onboarding and touchpoint schedule for associations.
Member Engagement
COVID-19 has changed everything…And that’s posing a pretty big challenge for everyone – including associations.
Member Engagement
Have you ever gotten annoyed with a member for being too loud or rambunctious? Or impatient with a board member for not showing up?
AMS Tools
Hate selling memberships? You’re just human.
Growth Medical-Specific
Healthcare association professionals across the U.S. and Canada gave us a look at the inner workings of their organizations.
Growth
A comprehensive association marketing plan always includes a SWOT analysis – but developing one doesn’t have to be complicated or time consuming.
AMS Tools
Learn how to optimize the technology you already have so you can get the most out of your software investment.
Growth Revenue
When it comes to credit card processing for associations, there are many factors to consider. But, like any service, the credit card processing company you choose should be efficient, accurate, and affordable.
AMS Tools Growth
Looking to get your association board “on board” with new association software?
Growth
Recovery tips for a COVID-19 World.
Chamber-Specific
The welcome email is the most important email you will send to a new chamber member.
Member Engagement
Learn why no one is reading your association’s emails.
Growth
One step forward, two steps back. That’s what it feels like without a good member retention strategy. Unless you’re able to retain your existing members, signing on new ones will not lead to growth. And no growth means less revenue. Less revenue means you don’t have funds to drive results. And when you don’t drive results, you’re no longer relevant in your industry. That’s where GrowthZone AMS comes in.
Growth
One step forward, two steps back. That’s what it feels like without a good member retention strategy. Unless you’re able to retain your existing members, signing on new ones will not lead to growth. And no growth means less revenue. Less revenue means you don’t have funds to drive results. And when you don’t drive results, you’re no longer relevant in your industry. That’s where GrowthZone AMS comes in.
AMS Tools
Our informative guide is THE resource on the topic of marketing automation software for associations.
Chamber-Specific
Boost your chamber’s financial stability with these engaging and effective non-dues revenue strategies designed to drive growth and sustainability.
Growth
Impress your board and simplify your life!
Growth
Get our new handbook, Removing Membership Renewal Roadblocks, for quick and easy-to-implement renewal hacks you can implement immediately.
Chamber-Specific
Show the benefits of membership to your toughest prospects.
Growth
We took the top six reasons to join an association and created a fun infographic designed for you to use to help you convince prospects to join your association.
Member Engagement Growth
Meetings are inevitable. But they don’t have to be miserable.
AMS Tools
It’s no secret that your association’s website is critical to your success.
AMS Tools
Data Entry is better when you only do it once.
Member Engagement
Regardless of size or location, one of the biggest challenges for associations is member engagement.
AMS Tools
Our guide, The How-To Guide to Successful Event Promotions, has budget-friendly tips to help maximize your association’s event registrations and increase attendance.
AMS Tools
You can’t change people, but you can change the way you deal with them.
Growth
The Big Book of Association Ideas: Building Industry Associations Edition showcases the 7 award-winning program and event ideas from the Association Momentum Awards Competition.
AMS Tools
Set up your association board members for success.
AMS Tools
How much time does your association staff spend entering data into multiple programs, printing and mailing invoices, matching payments with invoices, and more? Just to start again the very next month.
Growth
Can associations get young members to engage? The answer is yes.
Growth Revenue
You may not realize it, but you’re in the business of selling.
AMS Tools
44 low-cost (and free) ideas to reduce employee turnover and improve morale.
Growth Member Engagement
When polling our association contacts, the repetitive concern mentioned is “Increased pressure to recruit young professionals.”
AMS Tools
Failure is not an option for association teams supporting a variety of members and initiatives.
AMS Tools
Gone are the days when associations could rely on membership dues alone to maintain operations. These days, 45% of their revenue is generated from non-dues sources.
Member Engagement
Get (and keep) their attention by implementing the tips and programs in The Fundamentals of New-Member Communications.
Member Engagement
Member-facing content for your blog, newsletters, and website.
Member Engagement
The world has changed. Has your association?
Growth
Does your association actually need AMS?
Growth
You want to grow. You need to grow. But you’re finding it challenging to identify and market to prospects. Not to mention close the sale. “SALE?” That’s right, SALE. You might not want to admit it, but you’re in the business of selling. You sell memberships, renewals, sponsorships, certifications and more. But to be successful, you have to manage and keep track of the sales process. That’s where GrowthZone Association Management Software comes in.

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