An umbrella organization, such as a professional association or federation, is an organization that represents the interests of professionals or associations in a specific field. They offer members support in the areas of management, efficiency, and personnel policy, promote training and development, and often set quality standards. Usually, it is an organization of companies or associations, with individuals as members.
WISTA, (Women's International Shipping & Trading Association) is the Belgian chapter of the global organization connecting women maritime executives and decision-makers.
AMABEL, The Aeromedical Association is responsible for the medical certification of all pilots in Belgium. This covers scheduled flights, sport pilots and balloon flights.
ABAV, Helping acousticians make sound decisions, the Association of Acoustical Engineers.
AQUILAE, network of independent insurance brokers and banking agents
CLIMAFED, Belgian federation for climate technologies
Umbrella organizations have specific needs.
Certainly companies or associations as corporate members, and employees as individual members. And then also various membership types such as corporate members, individual members, student members, etc.
Furthermore, also CRM classifications for separate sectors, specialties, ... and also separate profile fields for tracking attestations, affiliation numbers, ...
Finally, specifically for professional associations, there are training activities with specific attendance functionality (in/out registration) and the necessary attendance certificates, then for the higher administrations.
Klubs, with its central CRM database, is ideally suited for professional associations. It prevents duplicate data and centralizes all membership data.
In addition, Klubs simplifies invitations, reminders, logins, on-site registrations and attendance certificate management.