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Tapping Into Attendee Expertise For Community Service Projects

Associations Now

In addition to giving local educators a refresher on statistics fundamentals, these volunteers also provide suggestions for lesson plans and teaching strategies. A final example, which I stumbled across in Convene magazine , comes from the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA).

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Political Black Swans: Ignore Them at Your Association’s Peril

Association Success

In 2003, widespread protest broke out around me in Azerbaijan, a country formerly part of the Soviet Union. We had even examined the reports of various political risk assessment firms. Creating strategies for unforeseen risks: An organization can protect itself by creating strategies for how to deal with unforeseen risks.

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Monday Buzz: Spam Is Fading. Threats Are Not.

Associations Now

Why you shouldn’t let your guard down just because a new report suggests a drop in spam email. According to Symantec’s latest Intelligence Report, the spam email rate has decreased to 49.7 percent—the first time it’s gotten below 50 percent since 2003. The bad news?

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Facilitation Friday #19: Resisiting Resistance is Futile

Idea Architects

A strategy session with only staff feels different than one including both staff members and board members or other volunteers. A discussion about workplace culture changes when peoples supervisors or direct reports are in the room. Oct 2003 (1). Sep 2003 (2). Aug 2003 (1). May 2003 (2). Apr 2003 (1).

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What I Learned About Philanthropy, Fundraising, and Social Impact at IFCAsia in Bangkok

Beth Kanter

These are two photos of me and Tharum Bun , a Cambodia blogger I met via our blogs back in 2003. So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops. Her report touched on the need for sector collaboration, celebrating mistakes and failures, and innovation.

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Bringing Credibility to the Conversation: Katie Butler, IIABA

Association Adviser

Katie has served IIABA since 2003 and has helmed the communications department since communications since 2004. Katie manages a team of six across three functional areas: editorial/content strategy, public relations and marketing. We’d get coverage because TV stations had the reporters to work on submissions.

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What Kids Can Teach Us About Charitable Giving

Associations Now

Don’t discount the young when it comes to your fundraising efforts and strategy. To determine how charitable kids are, the study followed the same group of 903 children over two time frames—2002 to 2003 and 2007 to 2008—and asked them to report their giving in each period.

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