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Jeff De Cagna elected chair of RedRover Board of Directors

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Founded in 1987, RedRover is a national organization headquartered in Sacramento, California that focuses on bringing animals out of crisis and strengthening the bond between people and animals through a variety of programs, including emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education.

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Jeff De Cagna to deliver keynote at CESSE 2013 Annual Meeting

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Mr. Keane is the overall volunteer organizer for CESSE 2013. CESSE, which was incorporated in 1977, is an informal, not-for-profit international organization of chief executive officers and mid-to-senior level staff members of scientific and engineering societies. I’m really looking forward to it!”

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Overcoming the association value gap: part II

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It is an invention designed to create artificial predictability and a sense of security for risk-averse organizations. We want everyone (or at least everyone who is eligible) to want membership in our organizations, even when membership benefits us more than them, which is almost always. Are you ready to get started?

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What is Associations Unorthodox?

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Each shift deals with an important area of association management in which doing what has always been done too often trumps the hard work of building our organizations to thrive, even right now when the latter is both an urgent priority and a non-trivial concern.

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Five reasons why membership is killing association business models: Part III

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Indeed, for many organizations, the membership imperative defines the very existence of the association: membership is who they are and what they do. For some organizations, these investments have produced a meaningful return. Membership is perhaps the most sacred tenet in all of association orthodoxy.

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The era of strategic planning is over

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During the more than twenty years I have worked in and with associations, it is my guess that organizations throughout our community have committed millions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of hours of staff and voluntary leader time to generate tens of thousands of pages of strategic plans and related documents.

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Associations Unorthdox Shift #6: Build a strategically legitimate board

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For their organizations to succeed over the next decade and beyond, therefore, association boards must reassert their strategic legitimacy, or risk losing the support of the next generation of stakeholders. It is a challenge associations must resolve to overcome. They should focus instead on improving board performance. Additional Thoughts.

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