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How to Reset Your Board Diversity Efforts

Associations Now

How to do that? 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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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. Sundance residents learn about services available to help them, how to care for their loved ones, as well as how to care for themselves. Dwayne Taylor is the general manager of 2101 Cooperative, a high-rise in Philadelphia.

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Streets of Philadelphia All Set for DNC

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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. Future Meetings Welcome.

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Ringing the Bell for Member Engagement

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I focused on it in my presentation “How to Build an Online Community” and received a lot of interesting feedback from those association professionals attending. Being in Philadelphia I couldn’t help but think of the Liberty Bell as an analogy for the challenge of driving member engagement.

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Bagel-Eating Contest Aims to Draw Attention to Start-Up Bagel Group

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David Brunelli of Philadelphia walked away from the National Bagel Association ’s second-annual National Bagel Eating Contest in New York with a $500 cash prize and the title of “National Bagel Eating Champion” for gobbling down 11 bagels in eight minutes. Its CEO wants the contest to one day bookend the group’s annual conference.

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Conference Circuit: Studying Society

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The American Sociological Association ’s 113th Annual Meeting begins this weekend in Philadelphia. More than 5,000 researchers, educators, practitioners, decision-makers, and students involved in the scientific study of society will make their way to Philadelphia this week to share knowledge and new directions in research and practice.

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Association Brain Food: 6.24.22

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The biggest mistakes organizations make with cybersecurity—and how to avoid them. A common struggle is how to deliver that kind of experience, particularly when transactions happen in their AMS and other platforms that were not built to do so. How to Design Ads for Nonprofits. Quick hits. Tessa Davis ). CAE credits.

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