A major challenge any leader faces is keeping members connected. It’s hard to keep them involved with the general workings and mission of their association. Regardless of your group’s purpose and goals, there are a lot of activities out there competing for your members attention, so you must continually strengthen their bond with the group.
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We hear it all the time: the key to fundraising and membership success is communications. But just what does that mean? And how on earth do you do it? This wonderful toolkit from the United Way Women’s Leadership Council sets out best practices for running a solid and coordinated communications campaign. Even better, it offers
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As everyone who has ever led a fundraising campaign knows, it’s hard to get everyone on the committee to take responsibility and truly embrace the goal. 6 Tips on How To Get Your Committee to Take Responsibility Communicate. In fact, OVER-communicate. You’re familiar with all the details — and you remember them — because you
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The Value of Women’s Work Women often complain about feeling invisible, ignored and dismissed in their workplaces. A wonderful new article posted by Charmaine McClarie on W2Wlink describes four common traps and how to avoid falling into them. 1. Blindly oblivious at work. This person has no idea what it takes to get ahead in
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War Redefined is the capstone of a 5-part series on public television. Many interviews are available on the PBS website as transcripts or podcasts. Interviews with female Secretaries of State and others “reveal how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented
Self Promotion Backfires To get a raise you need to self-promote, but self-promoting women may experience backlash in the workplace. What can I do to keep my self-promotion from backfiring? The website W2Wlink.com has some answers. “The characteristics we associate with success, including confidence and competitiveness, are seen as stereotypically masculine. Characteristics that are seen
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How to Recruit New Board Members Before you begin some bizarre recruitment ritual, realize you are facing a common problem. You’re having trouble filling your board positions, a few people are doing most of the work, and the steady workers are in danger of burning out. We often hear this statement in organization meetings, usually
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How can I use my power to change women’s image in the media? Our media denigrate even the most powerful women in our country such as Hilary Clinton, Condoleezza Rice, Sarah Palin and Nancy Pelosi. Commentators focus on whether they had plastic surgery, what they wear, and how old they look. What chance does an
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I would like to get members excited about my chapter or organization Cynthia D’Amour, founder of the Chapter Leaders Playground, posted a webinar 10-7-2011. During the webinar she polled listeners and found that 93% wanted some help increasing enthusiasm for their group. Only 7% said that all their members are totally excited about their group.
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OSLO, Norway (AP) — The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded today to three women: Africa’s first democratically elected female president, a Liberian campaigner against rape and a woman who stood up to Yemen’s autocratic regime. The award recognizes the importance of women’s rights in the spread of global peace. The Nobel website says the
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