Answers.Body: <p>Civi keeps records of three key dates regarding memberships: join date being the date that a contact first joined as a member; start date - being the date that the most recent membership period began (membership period being the length of a standard membership - often 1 year); and expiry date - being the date that the most recent membership period ends.</p>
  <p>Bear in mind that different orgs have different regimes for membership: for some, all memberships start on a given date, whilst for others memberships are rolling - i.e. membership starts on the date when the contact joins, and runs for the length of the membership period.</p>
  <p>I'd start by running a couple of fairly straightforward searches, to find a list of contacts with memberships with an expiry dates in 2023 (i.e in the date range Jan 1 - Dec 31 2023), and a second search for contacts with memberships with an expiry date equal to or greater than Jan 1 2024.</p>
  <p>This will give you two lists of contacts that should meet your requirement.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I am a volunteer for a non profit organization of with approximately 400 members.   I very new to CIVICRM and have no past experience with any relationship management software. Our organization is  trying to do a comparison of membership numbers in 2023 and 2024. What is the best way to locate this information?
  Thank you in advance.</p>
  <p>Anna</p>
  
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  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-10-17)
  
  I am a volunteer for a non profit organization of with approximately 400 members. I very new to CIVICRM and have no past experience with any relationship management software. Our organization is trying to do a comparison of membership numbers in 2023 and 2024. What is the best way to locate this information?
  Thank you in advance.
  
  Anna
  
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  > **username_1**: This may be of help https://civicrm.org/blog/agilewarejustinfreeman/how-many-members-did-we-have-date-how-many-times-has-member-renewed-how  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2024-10-23. Score: 0
  
  Civi keeps records of three key dates regarding memberships: join date being the date that a contact first joined as a member; start date - being the date that the most recent membership period began (membership period being the length of a standard membership - often 1 year); and expiry date - being the date that the most recent membership period ends.
  
  Bear in mind that different orgs have different regimes for membership: for some, all memberships start on a given date, whilst for others memberships are rolling - i.e. membership starts on the date when the contact joins, and runs for the length of the membership period.
  
  I'd start by running a couple of fairly straightforward searches, to find a list of contacts with memberships with an expiry dates in 2023 (i.e in the date range Jan 1 - Dec 31 2023), and a second search for contacts with memberships with an expiry date equal to or greater than Jan 1 2024.
  
  This will give you two lists of contacts that should meet your requirement.
  
  
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