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Stay the Course Through Changing Weather—Strategic Advice From Association CEOs 

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We thought we could help our colleagues prepare for that disruption by gathering advice from people who greet change as an unexpected advantage. Their advice about strategy, leadership, and digital business is still ahead of its time. Can you accurately describe your membership demographics? To the organization?

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Fewer restrictions, greater impact: How Candid shifted to unrestricted support 

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One such initiative is Demographics via Candid , a national campaign to address the surge of interest in nonprofit demographic data. Talk to them about your work and how it aligns with their missions, seek their advice, and, once you’ve secured their support, ask them to leverage their connections to bring other funders on.

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Lead From the Human Side of Technology

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Reactions to your advice or feedback often surprise you. It supports diversity in demographics and thought and is essential for building trust, transparency, and honest communication. You can’t understand why you need to explain yourself so often. Constructive criticism makes you uncomfortable or even angry. (Be Be honest about this.)

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Leadership’s Biggest Perk—Giving Others a Boost

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Encouraging a colleague to shoot for that sought-after certification, offering advice on an important project, or simply inspiring the confidence to see future potential, are the less visible activities that make leadership meaningful. Although there may be many others involved, the person in charge becomes the face of success.

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International Leadership, Women’s Issues, and Branding—A Conversation With Allison K. Summers, CAE

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The 98 to 99 percent female demographic makes for a unique environment. That’s great advice for anyone considering scaling back. Allison’s first book “Connect to Influence,” offers advice for people whose palms turn cold at the thought of being alone in the crowd. “I Women who join Zonta are doers. They want to accomplish goals.

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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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I’ve summarized advice from our contributors to offer practical ideas for beginning to integrate the Association 4.0 Sig VanDamme, the Founder of NimbleUser, GoJectory, and VA2A, offered this advice to bring the board along on those speculative ventures: Preparing a board to manage risk is a sales process. Association 4.0:

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ABFE and Candid partner on new research on Black leaders

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We also aim to provide practical advice on how scholars, consultants, funders, human resource representatives, and leaders in the nonprofit sector can work together to address anti-Black racism effectively. . Why Candid and ABFE? About the research .