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Streets of Philadelphia All Set for DNC

Associations Now

And with a convention of this size, with so many high-profile and influential attendees, you better believe the Philadelphia Convention & Visitors Bureau and Philadelphia 2016 Host Committee have been hard at work ever since the DNC was awarded to them in February 2015. In other words, the DNC will be huge. Fun for Everyone.

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Ringing the Bell for Member Engagement

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Being in Philadelphia I couldn’t help but think of the Liberty Bell as an analogy for the challenge of driving member engagement. at the committee level. In the end, it ultimately boils down to building genuine connections with your members and delivering real value through the products, programs and services your offer them.

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The golden years: How to help residents gracefully age in place

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Simpson is a manager of 55-and-older communities in the suburbs of Philadelphia. Some communities form welfare committees or buddy systems with volunteers to check in on neighbors to ensure they are safe, living in sanitary conditions, and healthy. Dwayne Taylor is the general manager of 2101 Cooperative, a high-rise in Philadelphia.

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Member Engagement? It's.Well, It's Complicated.

Eric Lanke

We even had one person dialing in from Philadelphia! For others, its means getting more volunteers for its committees and task forces. Getting more volunteers for its committees and task forces, for example, means something very different to that trade association than it does to that professional society.

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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

The study, Closing the Gaps , explores efforts among educational and healthcare nonprofits in the Philadelphia area, and identified a few bright spots: Women trustees and trustees of color have increased between 2019 and 2022, but diverse board chairs are rare, and some boards remain exclusively white.

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Aging in place: Developing policies to protect older adults

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Forming a volunteer committee to check on neighbors is far different than adopting specific care directives more common in an assisted living setting. That’s why communities like 2101 Cooperative in Philadelphia and Saint Andrews Country Club in Boca Raton, Fla., Contributed by Denise Adamic, CMCA, AMS, PCAM, and Matthew C.

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5 Types of People Who Need Nonprofit Fundraising Training

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Either they think they know, or they’re not comfortable with what they’ll be asked to do, or they’re too embarrassed to admit that they don’t know (especially when they told the search committee when they were hired that they can raise money!). organizational leadership responsibilities. Mary’s University of Minnesota.