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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. Is this how we build a model for significant, long-lasting systems change? During my first year as CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, our biggest priority was listening.

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Membership Directory: Why Your Organization Needs One & How to Create One

EventMobi: Association Events

The Chamber of Commerce of Great Kansas City , for example, allows people to easily browse and search within their online member list by typing a name, category, or keyword: They also have an online print directory , if you want to check it out!) Do you need a spreadsheet, a website, or an association management system (AMS)?

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Location, Support Network Prompt Holistic Nurses’ Big Move

Associations Now

A desire to be centrally located and to improve the association management resources available to them made moving 1,000 miles from Arizona to Kansas an easy decision for the American Holistic Nurses Association. Their destination: Topeka, Kansas—1,000 miles away. “We Do you have any tips to make moving a cinch?

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Change Created Chaos Impacts Associations

SCD Group

A recent trip through the Kansas City airport highlights three changes that illustrate how – without modification – change creates chaos. Governing board processes developed 40 to 50 years ago don't work as well in today's technology-driven world. Association boards and association executives have the Duty of Foresight.

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Electronic Security Association to World: Our Industry Has Jobs

Associations Now

Its members are looking for employees—and unlike most career options involving technology, you don’t need a college degree to get a job in this space. The pitch being sold by the Electronic Security Association (ESA)? That’s why the industry is working to play up its lower barrier to entry.

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The Future of the Furnace: What’s Holding Up More Efficient Gas Heat?

Associations Now

The technology to improve heating might be cheaper in the long term, but it comes with a high upfront costs, two key industry groups say. Department of Energy’s latest effort to set standards. The concern? Efficiency Efforts. But the higher requirements, originally set to go into effect in 2013, drew opposition from the natural gas industry.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

Beth Kanter

And how do you handle a tech glitch —or even a systems crash? This failure caused the GiveMN team major headaches on the Giving Day and beyond, and has led GiveMN to reevaluate its technology options and focus on regaining public trust. What’s the best way to recruit and train volunteers on a Giving Day? for five hours.

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