Association management
Association management for architecture and construction associations.
Old Plank Group is an association management company for trade and professional associations in architecture, construction and precast concrete. Your board gets a team to run events, membership, sponsor programs, communications and board meetings for one flat monthly fee. The website and membership system run on software we build and maintain.
Schedule of services
What full-team management covers
- Custom platforms
- The website, member sign-up and renewals, event registration, and continuing education tracking, built in house for your association.
- Events
- Annual meetings, conferences, tours and golf outings, with the planning, registration, vendors and on-site work behind them.
- Membership
- Recruitment, renewals, onboarding, and a clean roster your board can trust at budget time.
- Sponsors
- Sponsorship packages that track attendance and follow-up, so companies can decide on renewal with numbers.
- Communications
- The member newsletter and email updates, and a website kept current.
- Board support
- Agendas, minutes, budgets, and written procedures the whole team works from.
Built in house
Custom platforms for members and events
Your members can join, renew, register, and track continuing education in a system built for your association. We write the software ourselves, so it follows your dues structure and your continuing education rules. Staff and members do not have to work around what a packaged system cannot do.
What we can build for your association: the public website, event registration your members can finish without creating an account, self-serve sign-up and renewal for firms and partners, a continuing education tracker, and a searchable awards archive. Changes the board asks for are made by the same team that built the system.
The same software is available on its own, without management, for associations that have staff and need a better system.
Association management software
The platforms run on standard hosting and database services. Old Plank Group builds and maintains the software, including access controls and data backups, as part of the management fee. The association owns its domain and all of its member data and records. If the association ever changes management, we export the member data and association records in standard formats and help with the move.
For the board
Why boards make the switch
With a team, the work does not depend on one person, and a resignation does not take the association's history with it. We keep event records, sponsor histories, membership data and written procedures in one shared place, so another team member can take over.
Associations run in peaks. A team adds hours for the annual meeting and pulls back in the quiet months, and the fee already accounts for both.
We work in architecture, construction and precast concrete every day, so your board does not have to explain the industry to its own staff.
The standard
What the board should expect
Members renew and sponsors come back when the events run well and the communication is steady. Every service on this page is aimed at those renewals.
Questions and answers
What boards ask us
What does an association management company handle?
It handles the work an executive director and staff would do: events, membership, sponsor programs, communications, finances alongside your treasurer, and board support. The association keeps its own name and board. We supply the team and the systems behind it.
What does association management cost?
Association management is one flat monthly fee, scoped to the size of the association and its calendar and set in a conversation with the board. The fee covers the team and the systems. There is no hourly billing.
Do we have to use an off-the-shelf membership system?
No. We build the website, membership system, event registration and continuing education tracking in house, so they fit how your association works. Old Plank Group builds and maintains the software. The association owns its domain and all of its member data and records.
How is this different from hiring an executive director?
With a management team, operations and records depend less on any one person. The work is shared and written down, so the association keeps running when someone leaves.
Do you work with associations outside construction?
Our focus is trade and professional associations in architecture, construction and precast concrete. Your board should not have to explain the industry to its own staff.
Talk to us about your association.
We will walk your board through what full-team management looks like for your association, plainly and without a hard sell. We answer within one business day.