A Simple Way to Grow Your Chapter

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A Simple Way to Grow Your Chapter

One of the more frequent questions I get from chapter leaders around the world is, “How do we grow our membership?”

A great place to start is making sure you have the ability to contact ACFE members in your area. You can access a list of members in your chapter’s geographical region. This member list is available to a select number of chapter leaders (in most cases five) for each chapter and includes all Associates and CFEs in your area, as well as their contact information.

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Reminder on the Use of Convicted Fraudsters for Training

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Reminder on the Use of Convicted Fraudsters for Training

In my newsletter last March, I reminded you of the policy regarding the granting of CPE for presentations by convicted fraudsters. Since that time, we have learned that some previously convicted fraudsters are contacting our chapters and offering to teach classes on fraud. However, they are not disclosing their convictions or criminal history in the communications.

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Guest Blog: Taking a Risk on a New Venue

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Guest Blog: Taking a Risk on a New Venue

In early 2013, the Austin Area Chapter was using its fourth restaurant in eight years, a local fried seafood restaurant, for our lunch and full-day fraud education events. Over the years we had steadily grown from a monthly lunch attendance of about 20 members up to about 50 members per event, and occasionally we were hitting spikes of attendance of up to 70 or 80 members at a time.

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