Association Headquarters

From a Stand-alone to an AMC

Since our founding in 1978, AH has prided itself on housing the expertise of various association management professionals under one roof.  Our comprehensive association management business model was alluring to the American Mosquito Control Association (AMCA).  Prior to AMCA’s move to AH in 2006, the association had operated as a self-managed association.

Throughout a majority of AMCA’s history, mosquito control professionals had served in the executive director role. Since their level of involvement was fairly limited, AMCA remained stagnant and unable to truly flourish. 

Even after an association management professional, Sarah Gazi, CAE, took the helm as Executive Director, she found that limited resources, coupled with the jack-of-all trades post, left her with little time for day-to-day management of AMCA.  If her computer went awry, Gazi had to swap her executive director hat for an IT hat and fix it.

Gazi, who remains as AMCA’s Executive Director, says the transition to AH breathed new life into the association. Partnering with AH provided a sense of stability that AMCA had not experienced previously, and allowed the association’s future to be strategically mapped out and professionally implemented.

Instead of being all alone in her office, Gazi now has a network of like-minded professionals under the same roof to share ideas with, learn from and collaborate on new concepts. She has experts in various disciplines available to carry out AMCA’s initiatives, while allowing Gazi to remain focused on the strategic direction and management of AMCA.

AH provides more value
Since partnering with AH in 2006, AMCA has flourished with the new resources available.  Perhaps the greatest benefit has been AMCA’s increase in membership offerings. Due to the expertise available at AH, Gazi says AMCA has successfully provided more effective meetings, added webinars, and incorporated technological advances, such as email blasts, to more successfully interact and regularly communicate with members.

Furthermore, since AH partners with many associations, in addition to AMCA, these organizations collectively reap the benefit of increased buying power.  This buying power allows them to save money on everything from hotel room blocks to paper and conference call lines. Due to AH’s history of association management, our client partners receive the invaluable benefit of constant exposure to best practices. With AH’s experienced and knowledgeable team working together, AMCA has received direction in navigating the best road for the future.