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According to the [2019 Chapter Benchmarking Report (opens in a new tab)](https://marinermanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019_Chapter_Benchmarking_Report_Final.pdf)
 from Mariner Management and Billhighway, a sizable majority of respondents whose associations have chapters, 70 percent, said they closed a chapter recently. That’s a significant increase from three years earlier, when only 22 percent reported shutting a chapter down.

“When you get into the details of this data, respondents said that when they closed chapters, they often merged,” said Mariner Management President Peggy Hoffman, FASAE, CAE. “It’s a reorganization that I think is adaptive to the local level, and it shows that chapters are playing with traditional structures more.”

**Of association respondents with chapters:**

**2019**

Closed a Chapter

70%

Added a New Chapter

34%

**2016**

Closed a Chapter

22%

Added a New Chapter

20%

Source: Mariner Management and Billhighway, [2019 Chapter Benchmarking Report (opens in a new tab)](https://marinermanagement.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2019_Chapter_Benchmarking_Report_Final.pdf)
, October 2019

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