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Innovating for Inclusion: How We Engaged a More Diverse Community

Association Success

AIGA Minnesota has been pioneering an innovation initiative for a few years now, sprung into being by an AIGA Innovate grant, with the express goals of relevancy and cultivating transformative community impact through the engagement of design. The word ‘innovation’ is often treated as an end in itself. But what are we innovating for?

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Find More Meaning in Your Metrics

Associations Now

In their Learning Lab, they cited the example of the Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota, which commissioned research that found that every $1 invested in youth mentoring resulted in $2.72 The Mentoring Partnership of Minnesota worked with a research firm and the University of Minnesota for its SROI study.). You get the idea.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.21.21

Reid All About it

I’ve seen many references over the past year to the power of “unlearning” conventional so-called wisdom so we can take on new and existing challenges with the mindset they require. Hear how the Minnesota Society of CPAs launched a new AMS in March 2020, right as the pandemic began to unfold. Intellectual humility and curiosity.

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Nonprofit Named ISIS Begins Rebranding Process

Associations Now

He noted that American board members understood the urgency required in changing the name more so than the members from countries whose media use other terms to refer to the terrorist group. But obviously this is much bigger than a 25-person nonprofit organization in Bloomington, Minnesota.”.

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111 Intriguing Chats for 2011

ChatterBachs

This is my personal list, but please feel free to reference or use it. Paul, Minnesota; I believe senior-level mtg & event planners need a better way to connect with each other, so I created SPIN – The free Senior Planners Industry Network. My objectives are to learn more about their business and goals.