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Building and PreservingAssociation RelevancyInto the Future
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4 December 2007Research Triangle Park, NCISA Headquarters
Summit Report
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Executive Summary ...........................................................................................................................3Participating Organizations ...............................................................................................................4Steering Committee ..........................................................................................................................5The Planning Process ........................................................................................................................5Working Groups ................................................................................................................................6
Attracting and Retaining Members/Prospective MembersUnder Age 40 and In Under-Represented Groups
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Defining and Creating Expectations for a Truly Global Organizationand Achieving a Fully Integrated Business
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Cultivating Leaders From Within the Volunteer Ranks
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Ensuring the Success of Individual Membership Organizations forthe Next 100 Years, and Recognizing and Focusing on WhatIndustry/Government Will Want from Engineers/Scientists in the Future
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Special Thanks
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Appendix A—Sample Leadership Development Survey
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Executive Summary
On December 3–4, 2007, leaders from fifteen scientific and engineering associations,representing more than three quarters of a million members, gathered in Research TrianglePark, North Carolina, to assess and build upon model programs addressing key challengesfaced by the association community today.The goal of the summit is to develop a valuable resource for the community tocommunicate current programs and practices that address these topics, and to create plansfor expanding and further developing existing solutions to benefit additional organizations. The genesis for the summit was born in the CESSE (Council of Engineering and ScientificSociety Executives) CEO Roundtables, which have been time constrained and intermingled with additional learning and networking opportunities that prevent executives from fully focusing on specific problem resolution. With a core group of committed associations, astand alone event places emphasis on action and furtherance of inter-society discussions.The summit gave organizations a chance to propose and implement solutions, share results with the larger community, and plan for future collaborations.The summit report summarizes the topical themes and relevant discussion regarding bestpractices and proposed solutions. It is imperative that all associations consider what they could and should be doing to keep their organizations relevant in the future, and this reportserves as a starting point in developing a roadmap for the ongoing journey.In addition to the dissemination of this valuable information, the summit participants will continue to communicate the successes and failures of any programs or actionableitems resulting from the summit. The event was the foundation for an ongoing network totest and evaluate new programs that will allow all organizations to maintain relevancy fordecades to come. Efforts will be made to integrate the summit topics into future meetingsand activities of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives (CESSE).More information about CESSE can be found at www.cesse.org
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