TMAA Learning Center

The TMA Alliance offers tools to aid local alliances and enhance your personal growth. Check back often as we will continue to add resources here.

Rebooting a Local Alliance Chapter
Is your local alliance struggling to stay together or attract new members? Or maybe you want to start a new alliance in your area. Review these tips to assist you in starting, relaunching, or growing an alliance.

Resources for Local Alliance Presidents
This one-pager is a handy reference guide for new local alliance presidents to provide an overview of services and tools TMAA offers to assist you in this leadership role.

Best Practices for Volunteers
For a successful project, you need volunteers who bring value to your effort and who are reliable. These guidelines, developed by TMA’s Council on Health Promotion, can help you recruit, employ, and retain volunteers.

2025 Plus 1 Membership Campaign Tips

TMAA President Jenny Shepherd details resources and processes to help you implement the 2025 Plus 1 Membership Campaign. These tips will assist you in your efforts to renew your existing members, bring back lapsed members, and recruit new members. This was the September edition of the TMAA County Leadership Listening Session.

Period Poverty Project of Bexar Alliance
Bexar County Medical Society Alliance members Brittany Garcia and Julia Halvorsen give details and insights about the new Period Poverty project, which earned the alliance a 2024 TMAA Blue Ribbon Award for community outreach. This presentation was given during the August 2024 TMAA County Leadership Listening Session.


Winning Community Outreach Strategies

Linda Kennedy, Tarrant County Medical Society Alliance president, shares strategies and initiatives that earned the alliance a 2024 TMAA Blue Ribbon Award for community outreach. Linda gave this presentation during the May 2024 TMAA County Leadership Listening Session.



Best Practices for Alliance Event Communication
Mercedes Dossa, 2023-24 TMAA Vice President of Community Engagement, shares tips for intentional and engaging communication about alliance events to help increase attendance and excitement – and ultimately grow and strengthen membership. Mercedes gave this presentation during the April 2024 TMAA County Leadership Listening Session.



88th Texas Legislature Wrap-Up
TMA Immediate Past President Rick Snyder II, MD, recaps the 2023 Texas Legislative Session. Dr. Snyder, then TMA president, gave this presentation to the TMA Alliance in April.

 

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Advocating for Medicine 101
Jenny Shepherd, TMAA president-elect and TEXPAC Executive Committee member, shares 10 pointers to help you become a better advocate for medicine and have a successful experience during First Tuesdays at the Capitol or anytime you’re talking with a legislator. Her presentation includes a primer about the Texas Legislature and TMA’s advocacy efforts.