Running your organisation

Governance, volunteers, software, and the day-to-day of running things.

Running your organisation

Member portal: what it is and the features that actually matter

A member portal is just the logged-in part of your website. Here's what actually belongs in it, what to leave out, and when a WhatsApp group is honestly enough.

19 Jul 2026 9 min read
Running your organisation

How to build a member directory

A member directory is obviously useful right up until you build one and nobody opens it. Here's when a directory genuinely earns its place, and how to build one your members actually trust.

19 Jul 2026 8 min read
Running your organisation

The membership numbers actually worth watching

You don't need a dashboard to run a healthy club. Here's the handful of numbers that actually tell you something - and the shiny ones that only make you feel informed.

19 Jul 2026 8 min read
Running your organisation

Connecting a custom domain to your membership site

It sounds like the technical end of running a membership site, so people put it off. It really is a 20-minute job - here's the plain-English version, start to finish.

19 Jul 2026 7 min read
Running your organisation

Non-dues revenue ideas for associations

A grouped, honest menu of ways a club or association can bring in money beyond dues - what each one really earns, what it costs you in effort, and how not to let money-chasing quietly wreck the thing you were funding.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read
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How to accept donations for a membership organisation

Donations sound like free money, which is exactly why they disappoint. Here is when they actually make sense for a club, the easy ways to take the money in Indonesia, and why a good event usually beats a donate button.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read
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How to get sponsors for your club

The big-brand cheque you're picturing is out of reach, and chasing it wastes your time. The sponsorship that actually works for a small club is local, modest, and built on a relationship - here's how to land it and keep it.

19 Jul 2026 10 min read
Running your organisation

Fundraising ideas for clubs

A grouped, honest menu of fundraisers for a small Indonesian club - from a ticketed lomba to food stalls, raffles, auctions and local sponsors - sorted by what each costs you against what it hands back. One run well beats five run badly.

19 Jul 2026 9 min read

Run your whole membership in one place

Anggota keeps your members, renewals, payments and events together, so the admin looks after itself and you can get back to the community. Have a go - it is free to start, no credit card.