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Association 4.0—A Playbook for Success

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Boards that are professionally, demographically, and ideologically diverse are more likely to be open to risk tolerance. Cultivate Innovation and Problem Solving Whether entrepreneurs inherit a gene for invention or not, once they are thrown into the business shark tank, they quickly learn to swim. Association 4.0

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Build a Board for the Digital Future

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They know that we’re going to fix the problems.” The speed and agility required for problem-solving in fast-paced markets don’t leave room for wobbly positions or indecision. It’s not just a question of demographics. They give me and our management team the freedom to do the work. Find the humanists in your orbit.

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

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Can you accurately describe your membership demographics? Could you develop a profile of member wants/needs in each demographic group? It also makes it possible to be more fearless tackling tough problems. This is a taste of how some of the most creative leaders in our industry approach problem-solving.

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Top 10 Reasons to Have a Strategic Marketing Plan

Byte Technology

You need to know where your money is doing the best for your business and lean into that knowledge to plan the spending for the coming year. Perhaps you’re seeing a growth in an untapped market or demographic. This knowledge will help you introduce new marketing channels into your strategy. To Confirm Who Your Customer Is.

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What I’ve learned from working with mission-based organizations

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

In a mission-based organization, many problems that initially appear to be about information and communication technology are really about organizational culture, knowledge management, or a combination of organizational culture and knowledge management. Age discrimination is alive and well in mission-based organizations.

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Defining equitable access begins at home 

Candid

To further support nonprofits in making the case for funding, we encourage them to share their organizational leadership’s demographic makeup. When a nonprofit claims and updates their profile, they can then easily share the link to it with potential funders to tell their story, without needing to build a website.

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Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World

Candid

We need data to tell our story, identify funding opportunities and gaps, uplift partners, define the problems we seek to solve, and contribute to our collective impact. . As your foundation commissions and publishes knowledge, remember to also share it with Candid via IssueLab so it’s easily discovered by others. . So has Candid.

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