Data: How Chapters Are Structured
Associations Now
What the 2016 Chapter Benchmarking Study by Mariner Management & Marketing reveals about the structure of how chapters are incorporated.
Associations are complex organizations made even more so when they have networks of regional or local chapters. Practices vary widely in the structure of how chapters are incorporated.
Separate-Affiliated (independent)
29%
Separate-Chartered (not independent)
46%
Subsidiary (one organization)
20%
Other
5%
Source: 2016 Chapter Benchmarking Study [PDF], Mariner Management & Marketing
[This article was originally published in the Associations Now print edition, titled "Data Nugget: Chapter Choices."]