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Advocacy and Governance 2.0

Association Adviser

The late Shane Yates, visionary head of the Ohio Society of Association Executives who passed away in February 2016, told us in a 2015 interview that the board’s role is to give direction by granting authority and that management’s role is to execute direction, which it does by exercising that authority subject to those limits. 1 info source.

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

Achieve

It was the late 1980s and I was signing up for the first class in the first master’s program in philanthropy and development in the country, at St. Mary’s University of Minnesota. were published in 2015. Mary’s University of Minnesota. Well, he was wrong. The Science of Giving. Even more so. change in technologies.