Lead, Learn, Earn: Learning Paths Built for
Association Revenue Growth
LEAD
Empower your team and enhance your programs to drive sustainable revenue growth and organizational strength.
LEARN
Discover innovative approaches that balance mission-driven purpose with effective revenue expansion.
EARN
Explore actionable strategies and tactics designed to boost your association’s financial performance and resilience.
Revenue Excellence for Association Teams
Gold‑standard ideas, disciplined strategies, and premium connections for revenue‑driven associations
RevUP Summit 2026 is where association leaders and revenue producers come together to sharpen revenue excellence—building stronger business models, deeper member relevance, and measurable results that last. You’ll plug into an energetic, close-knit community, gain practical strategies you can implement immediately, and return home with renewed confidence in your association’s revenue future.
ON THE MAIN STAGE
From Stakes to Strength: The Membership Tipping Point
The membership model is at a tipping point—and the next move is yours. At RevUP 2026, workforce strategist Phil Putnam delivers a keynote built for association leaders ready to turn rising stakes into strategic strength. Learn how to engage today’s multigenerational workforce, future-proof your membership model, and lead with intention—not uncertainty.
A Look Back at RevUP 2025
What Revenue Leaders Are Saying
"This was one of the best conferences I've ever attended: excellent sessions and speakers and a very welcoming, inclusive community!"
2024 RevUP Attendee
"The PAR team set the gold standard with unmatched attentiveness to attendees and exhibitors while providing a seamless blend of valuable education and networking. Truly an exceptional event."
Bill Sheehan
"This event is an absolute must for executive directors, development professionals, and sales professionals working within associations and professional societies."
Andre Williams
ASTCT
"[The RevUP keynote was] one of the best sessions I’ve experienced in a long time. Superb and impactful, I’m bringing back five pages of notes."
Anothony Simone
Bill of Rights Institute
"There’s really nothing more special than getting to be among “your people, your tribe” at a gathering where everyone knows your professional trials, tribulations and also celebrates your same successes."
Kathy Bradley, CAE
NRECA
4 Revenue Challenges Association Leaders Are Tackling in 2026 — and How RevUP Is Built to Help
The conversations happening across the PAR community point to four common revenue challenges that association leaders — regardless of sector or size — are tackling in 2026. Here’s what we’re hearing and how RevUP 2026 is designed around it.
Associations’ Existential Crisis — and How to Fix It
Phil Putnam says there’s a real existential crisis of association membership and revenue, and we only have 9–12 years to change it. Hint: “Participation is no longer its own virtue, and there’s no more, ‘If we build it, they will come,'” warns Putnam, PAR’s RevUP Summit 2026 keynoter.
In this exclusive interview with PAR, the speaker, author, and cross-generational leadership expert provides exactly what you need to do if you want your association to exist past 2035.
RevUP’s Best Lessons to Carry Into the New Year
Looking for some fresh inspiration to shape your course in 2026? In a follow-up webinar to PAR’s popular RevUP 2025 Summit, hosted by Jay S. Daughtry, M.Ed., of Intuto, some of the best minds in association business development reflected on insights from the summit and how associations can translate these ideas into action.
RevUP 2025: Taking Care of Association Business and Embracing Change
Working in the association industry comes with a certain awareness: most people outside of it lack understanding of what the work really involves, or the impact it creates. But those working in association revenue-producing roles often experience a similar disconnect internally. Find out why the RevUP Summit connected association colleagues in a new way and with a shared purpose.