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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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Trust isn’t a challenge that is currently top of mind for association leaders. ENA Culture Statements Staff The Emergency Nurses Association will seek at all times to foster and maintain a culture of excellence, commitment, empowerment, collaboration, inclusivity, and accountability. Could the issue be trust?

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Celebrate International Women’s Day 2021

Forum One

During Women’s History Month, we are excited to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8, 2021. This year’s theme is #ChooseToChallenge because a challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we’re all responsible for our own thoughts and actions, but we can choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequity.

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Five Lessons for Creating an Effective (and Accountable) Nonprofit Board

Blue Avocado

In fact, one of my two biggest challenges as nonprofit CEO involved convincing boards that their service demanded accountability. But the reality is that these people won’t necessarily be effective in a governance role. This proved to be a wonderful way to share nationally AbilityFirst’s empowerment philosophy.

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10 Questions …. Kate Behncken, global head, Microsoft Philanthropies

The NonProfit Times

She is focused on local and global initiatives, partnering with nonprofits, governments and the private sector to develop durable solutions and deliver impact at scale. Her dedication to amplifying marginalized voices, paired with her vision for political empowerment, shows what it means to lead with purpose and passion.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock.

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Rethinking Community Advisory Boards: the Story of C3

Museum 2.0

CON: can feel disconnected from the primary governance of the museum or can feel like a second-class board overall. So here''s the story of how we are trying to take another approach at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History, through a group called C3. I struggle with both these options.

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Break the Bias: Changing the Game for Girls & Women

Saleforce Nonprofit

Women and girls in particular have felt the impacts of a never-ending global health pandemic, conflict and displacement, and authoritarian government takeovers, to name a few. Women and girls will, once again, lose access to the benefits of sport. Credit: GOLEES.