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**How to hack it?** Every third Thursday of the month, the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) invites its members to join a virtual town hall that focuses on an array of membership issues. The event format is an hour-long web conference moderated by two member volunteers.

April’s town hall conversation focused on [membership recruitment (opens in a new tab)](https://nahbnow.com/2019/04/hold-your-most-successful-membership-drive-yet/)
 and highlighted several recruitment drives and membership strategies for growth. The topic for next month’s conversation is [new-member onboarding and orientation (opens in a new tab)](https://www.nahb.org/forms/third-tuesday-townhall.aspx)
.

**Why does it work?**There’s no set agenda or speaking order for the town halls. Every event is an open and free-flowing conversation that helps highlight some of the great ideas implemented by NAHB’s affiliates—a bottom-up approach to idea sharing.

**What’s the bonus?**After events, NAHB posts a recap of the conversation to its [NAHB Now Blog (opens in a new tab)](http://nahbnow.com/)
. The write-ups [summarize the conversation and ideas shared (opens in a new tab)](https://nahbnow.com/2019/04/hold-your-most-successful-membership-drive-yet/)
 and serves as evergreen content for members who might have missed the virtual event.

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[Tim Ebner](https://associationsnow.com/author/tim-ebner/)

Tim Ebner is communications director and press secretary at the American Forest & Paper Association in Washington, DC. He is a member of ASAE’s Communication Professionals Advisory Council and a former Associations Now senior editor.

[More articles by this author](https://associationsnow.com/author/tim-ebner/)

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 [#Membership](https://associationsnow.com/tag/membership/)
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