Leadership Volunteering
Leadership & Volunteering
Nothing in Nature exists for itself. Rivers don’t drink their own water; trees don’t eat their own fruit; the sun doesn’t shine for itself; and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves. Living for others is a rule of nature. We are all born to help each other. No matter how difficult it is,
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Implicit Racial Bias in Communities and Ways to Overcome it
Community associations are a great place to live, work and play. However, like everything else, they can be better. One of the ways that some of our associations can improve is in the area or racial relationships. Very few, if any, associations openly address racial relations with their communities. Fewer still acknowledge that racial issues
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Lessons From My First Year as a Manager
In your first year as a manager, you face challenges such as facilitating successful board and annual meetings, elections, and tackling a budget. As a first-year manager in 2020, I faced those challenges as well as a new layer of intricacies that resulted from the Covid pandemic. The impact of Covid made managing more complicated
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The First-Year Board Member Experience
I decided to run for the board after some encouragement from friends I had made in the neighborhood. I was trying to get involved in the community as much as possible, and with board elections coming up, I thought it was a great opportunity. Since joining the board, I have learned a lot. I have
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