An association management company (AMC) provides professional services including strategic leadership, financial management, event planning, member relations, marketing and communications, program management, information technology services and general administration to trade associations, membership societies and nonprofit foundations. Basically, instead of hiring a staff, buying or renting an office and purchasing equipment, organizations contract with firms like AMR Management Services. We answer the phones, manage day-to-day operations and enable volunteer leaders to focus on the mission and vision of the association.

Associations turn to AMCs to solve problems and drive value through expert leadership, strategic guidance and operational excellence. They come to AMR to turn vision into action. Action means results.

AMR works with associations of all sizes, in a variety of industries and in all life cycle stages. We specialize in public sector, agricultural and healthcare associations.

Many associations rely on volunteer leadership and outsourcing of specialized services to get their work done and their goals met. Volunteers have little time for an "extra job." In fact, often the same three or four members take on the majority of the work and quickly become burned out. 

Piecemeal outsourcing of meeting planning, graphic design, website design and hosting, strategic planning and other mission-critical components can be costly and time-consuming for volunteer leaders who are managing and coordinating with various service providers.

An accredited AMC offers quality, effective solutions and organization for associations: 

• Economies of scale through combined buying power and cost-sharing. Through the AMC model, client-partners reinvest the value of those economies to grow new or expand existing programs.
• Integrated services: no more putting programs together piecemeal.
• On-demand specialized personnel such as meeting planners and accountants.  
• Access to proven best practices and ability to leverage expertise of all AMC staff and experience to provide solutions for delivering the services that associations need.
• Learn more about the benefits of AMC management.