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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

How to do that? The study, Closing the Gaps , explores efforts among educational and healthcare nonprofits in the Philadelphia area, and identified a few bright spots: Women trustees and trustees of color have increased between 2019 and 2022, but diverse board chairs are rare, and some boards remain exclusively white.

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Bagel-Eating Contest Aims to Draw Attention to Start-Up Bagel Group

Associations Now

David Brunelli of Philadelphia walked away from the National Bagel Association ’s second-annual National Bagel Eating Contest in New York with a $500 cash prize and the title of “National Bagel Eating Champion” for gobbling down 11 bagels in eight minutes. Its CEO wants the contest to one day bookend the group’s annual conference.

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Thursday Buzz: Smooth Flying in the Future?

Associations Now

Ready, set, takeoff” may be a possibility, all thanks to a new algorithm by engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) designed to prevent planes from needlessly idling to maximize fuel savings and minimize passenger frustration. “In Andrea Ayres at Lifehacker explains how to combat it and get stuff done.

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Association Brain Food: 6.24.22

Reid All About it

The biggest mistakes organizations make with cybersecurity—and how to avoid them. A weekly conversation about meeting and event technology, including software, hardware, and audiovisual for in-person and online events. Host: Brandt Krueger, founder Event Technology Consulting. How to Design Ads for Nonprofits. Quick hits.

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3 New Year’s Rituals for Nonprofits That Can Boost Professional Success

Beth Kanter

This year I facilitated several labs, including several for the Knight Foundation Arts Program to learn about the local arts ecosystem in four cities, including Philadelphia, San Jose, Charlotte, and Macon. When I look back on 2016, it was a very rich and productive year.

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

change in technologies. Unfortunately, too many nonprofit leaders say that they already know how to fundraise when they. how much fundraising would change. But even then, training in fundraising could be effective and based on sound principles. Even more so. just doesn’t wash. Nonprofit leadership.

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

AssociationChat

Here’s how to ensure they’re effective now that COVID-19 has forced them to work remotely. They also talk about the impact of the global health situation on the Association market and how technology can help the industry become more sustainable in the future. billion users worldwide, across 12 different industry verticals.