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Effort Empowers Kansas City Women To Effectively Negotiate Salaries

Associations Now

The American Association of University Women is expanding its AAUW Work Smart program to Kansas City. Its goal: Close the gender pay gap by training 1 million women across Kansas and Missouri in salary and benefits negotiation. The gender pay gap in both states highlights the needs for such a program.

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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. During my first year as CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our biggest priority was listening.

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A Year in Photos

Thanks For Playing

Louis, San Diego, Kansas City, Portland, Fort Lauderdale I tried not to take pictures of myself (two, neither of my face) or people in general (very few), my meals (although there are food photos), or my cat (less successful there).

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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). We get so wrapped up in devising beautiful answers that we fail to see the broader context. Context matters.

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Coping strategies: Mental health support for community association managers

Ungrated

“People come to (community managers), and their expectation is that we have all the answers, that we’re the strong ones,” says Michael Dee, CMCA, AMS, a manager with FirstService Residential in Kansas City, Mo. “It

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Culture Slides

Jamie Notter

Thanks to the Kansas City Society of Association Executives and the Kansas Society of Association Executives for bringing Maddie and me out to both Missouri and Kansas (my first ever trip to Kansas) to speak to their members.

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Hackathons Helping Nonprofits: The Overnight Website Challenge Offers Pro Bono Redesigns

Associations Now

Over the past few years, the agency’s charitable foundation has gained attention for its Overnight Website Challenge , in which programmers donate their skills to local nonprofits in cities around the country. Paul, Minnesota; Chicago; Kansas City, Missouri; and Phoenix. Corey’s Network, Inc.; Girls Leading Our World, Inc.;