How Are We Celebrating Women’s History Month?
March is Women’s History Month and on March 8, many celebrated International Women’s Day by lauding the accomplishments of women and by pointing out the many issues that still affect women. The Chattanooga Symphony & Opera is doing it’s part to celebrate Women’s History Month with a performance this Thursday of Jennifer Higdon’s Violin Concerto. Not only is the concert featuring a piece by a female composer, the soloist is a female, CSO concertmaster ...
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 ...
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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