Reversing Trickle Down Community Engagement
One of my favorite nonprofit blogs, NonProfit with Balls by Vu Le, published a post on 1/20/2015 about the theory of trickle down community engagement. The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is in the midst of an education and community engagment planning process, so I was pumped to read this article. Le defines the trickle down theory as: Trickle-Down Community Engagement (TDCE). This is when we bypass the people who are most affected by issues, engage and ...
What Department Gets Assigned Community Engagement?
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Who Is In Charge of Engagement? Someone comes up to you and says they really enjoyed the program they attended and want to spread the word to their friends and get them involved, to whom do you refer them? Is there someone who will offer to collect the contact info of the person and their friends and perhaps follow up with them later to see if they need more information? In short, who is your ...
The Millennial Worker Takeover
THE MILLENNIALS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD!! Well, we’re not taking over quite yet, but in less than a decade, the millennial generation (people born between 1981 and 2000) will be the largest segment of the American workforce and moving into power positions that retiring late Boomers and Gen-Xers are leaving. Millennial workers expect different things from employers like better work-life balance, more flexible schedules, and the ability to be socially connected during work hours; ...
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