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What nonprofits want: Support for capacity building and collective impact

Candid

Since late 2023, weve been talking with community members about how, together, we could make Kansas City a national model for equitable economic mobility. This, in turn, will create a pipeline of impactful, innovative organizations working in our priority areas toward equitable economic mobility.

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The Importance of an Innovation Strategy in your Culture

Jamie Notter

I led a great session in Wichita, Kansas this week with some really smart healthcare professionals. We had gathered some data prior to the meeting about the cultures inside their organizations, and then we got together to brainstorm some ideas about what they could do to encourage more innovation internally. Innovation is critical.

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Best Practices Suck

Jamie Notter

When you live in Denver, it is absolutely a best practice to drive east if you want to get to Kansas City by car. Louis, you will never reach Kansas City (not without involving a boat or a plane, anyway). Is innovation a best practice? Believe me, I think agility, innovation, and transparency are important.

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Match a City’s Perks with Your Attendees’ Interests

Associations Now

Meeting planners can partner with the IUPUI Sports Innovation Institute to scale up their event operations. We also use human-centered design to innovate and enhance the event experience for attendees,” he adds. In January 2000, both the NCAA and NFHS moved from Kansas City, Mo., to Indianapolis. “We

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Going Complaint Free

Idea Architects

I want to express my reservations about movements like Kansas City minister Will Bowen's A Complaint-Free World , but to do so would be complaining and that's what the movement is trying to stop. Listen closely and see if you can unearth a potential innovation or positive change waiting to be heard and discovered. or the book.

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Internet Association Hires Christina Martin In Latest Expansion Of Executive Leadership Team

InternetAssociation

“Internet Association’s mission of promoting innovation, stimulating economic growth, and empowering people through the free and open internet has never been more important.”. She is a graduate of the University of Kansas. ###.

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How the Mighty Fall - Associations at Risk - Part 1 of 5

Association Subculture

Innovation becomes anathema to protection of the status quo and volunteer leaders can become enamored of the inherent power associated with the association’s position as provider of a vital entry point into a job market. innovation. (6). Principled Innovation LLC. education. (1). employees. (1). expansion. (1).

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