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Teach Your Members and Staff Leadership by Showing Them the World

Associations Now

How supporting international volunteer work within your organization can teach leadership skills that your members and staff will rely on for a lifetime. I traveled with a small nongovernmental organization, 108 Lives , a project of the Three Jewels Outreach Center in New York City. The benefits are huge.

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International Compliance Group Expands Into U.S.

Associations Now

based office in New York City. The International Compliance Association wants to help make the world more stable and successful by inspiring, educating, and enabling our global community of compliance specialists to perform to the highest standards of professional practice and conduct,” Steve Stromp, ICA’s U.S.

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How One Foundation Got Kids Interested in Skiing—With Its Own Ski Park

Associations Now

In the three winters that the National Winter Activity Center has been active, the National Winter Sports Education Foundation’s “living lab” has helped drive a massive interest in the slopes among New York City-area kids. Here’s how.

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The Importance Confidence Plays In The Workplace with Susan Marshall of The Backbone Institute

Association Mavens

She has been assisting leaders in public and private sector industry, non-profit agencies, and public education for nearly 30 years. Marshall is author, speaker and founder of Backbone Institute, LLC, whose mission is to create a stronger more confident future one person or team at a time. Contact Susan.

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Does Wall Street Have Too Much Influence Over Nonprofit Boards?

Associations Now

But the results aren’t limited to the educational arena: Among the New York City nonprofits studied, 40 percent of board members and 44 percent of leaders come from the financial sector. The makeup of these boards doesn’t reflect the size of the U.S. financial industry.

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Michael Jordan Antiviolence Donation Strategy Strikes Careful Political Balance

Associations Now

Jordan, the retired Chicago Bulls icon who currently owns the Charlotte Hornets, announced two charitable donations of $1 million each to the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) and the Institute for Community-Police Relations (ICPR) , which was recently established by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP).

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Advancing your profession

Idea Architects

My roots as a professional are in higher education student affairs. My formative years were spent toiling away in residential life, fraternity and sorority affairs, and student leadership development. Working in higher education, one is surrounded by the “publish or perish” mentality.