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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

Recent reports suggest that efforts to diversify boards are wobbling. Hope isn’t a strategy, as they say, but it can sometimes seem that way when it comes to board diversity. Meanwhile, another report finds that Latinos have been shut out of the boardrooms of major corporations. How to do that? Have you considered term limits?

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.21.19

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The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… Maggie McGary shares insights from the Community Roundtable’s 10th Annual State of Community Management report and cross-references them with findings from MGI’s Membership Marketing Benchmarking Report. More info/register. 1 CAE credit.

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Association Brain Food: 12.1.23

Reid All About it

It seems weird to report on Thanksgiving dishes more than a week later, but I feel strangely obliged. Fri 12/1 at 4 p.m.* – Association Discussion: The Future of Components Has your association’s component relations strategy evolved since the pandemic? From light to heavy, the next night we had cheesy smoked Gruyere chicken.

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3 Reasons for Brain Drain—and 3 Possible Solutions

Associations Now

Consider these strategies to ease the pain. Read on for a series of common brain-drain scenarios and some strategies that might make the problem easier to handle. Feeling drained? So what’s a smart association to do? An Aging Workforce. The problem. The solution.

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Add Chapters to Make an Old Association Feel New

Associations Now

The strategy reflects a significant shift from the way PEN America used to operate, says Director of Membership Rebecca Werner. That began to change in 2017, when we opened a Washington, DC, office, and in 2018, when we unified with the former PEN Center USA , which had previously existed separately in Los Angeles.

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Send the Right Message About Membership ROI

Associations Now

I like one in particular, not only for its content but also because of its promotional strategy. In the ads, The Daily turns the mic over to journalists who explain how subscribers support their work—whether it’s reporting on a story from the frontlines of Syria or doing the legwork required to file a hefty Freedom of Information Act request.

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L.A.’s Earthquake-Proofing Problem: Who Pays?

Associations Now

Los Angeles city officials are trying to get ahead of the next “big one” and save lives, but the costly upgrades needed for wooden and concrete buildings make a proposed retrofitting plan a big ask, associations in the city note. “Complacency risks lives,” the mayor said, according to The Los Angeles Times.