Presentations

Associations Creating Community - Interview with Shelly Alcorn and Elizabeth Engel

In this most recent Associations Creating Community, Jefferson Glassie interviews Elizabeth Engel with Spark Consulting and Shelly Alcorn with Michelle Alcorn and Associates about their groundbreaking, recently published white paper titled “The Time is Now: Association Resilience an Adaptation and the Anthropocene Climate Disruption.” The white paper explains the current perspectives on climate as applicable not just to humans on the planet, but also to associations and nonprofit organizations, which are and will be more affected by climate in the future. These effects include climate disruptions on associations’ members, businesses, industries and professions, but also on association meetings, conventions and programs, as well as on individual association staff.

Elizabeth and Shelly emphasize how important it is for association executives to understand the scope and extent of the impact of climate disruption on their various large and small communities. They also emphasize in the white paper the wide range of options available to associations to support their respective and concentric communities, and their recommendation that associations develop communities of practice to assist in these efforts. Allowing association executives keys and insights into conduct, actions, and practices that others are undertaking to make adoption of important steps easier and more productive is critical to success. This discussion relates to perhaps the most important community to which we all belong, the human race, and illustrates how connected we all are and how concerted action is important to protect our important communities.


 

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