FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION...
MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO GENERATE POSITIVE AND LASTING OUTCOMES FOR ASSOCIATIONS REPRESENTING PROFESSIONS, TRADES,
AND PERSONAL AVOCATIONS
Associations have been mistakenly categorized as nonprofits with members…or nonprofits operating as businesses…or nonprofits catering to special interests. They are so much more.
They exist to advance positive and lasting social change for their members and their members’ practice settings. Their founders understood that the information and innovations – created through collective action – were indispensable to improving the quality of life in America.
Their role to advancing a functioning democracy is so different from for-profits and other nonprofits that they deserve a special designation: membership-based organizations (MBOs).
The Melos Institute is the only nonprofit applied research and learning center in America discovering management strategies uniquely designed to empower MBOs’ volunteer and staff leaders not just to achieve their goals, but also to deliver more meaningful, purposeful, and transformative experiences to their members.
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The Melos Institute
Our Mission
Establish and disseminate a 21st-century relation-centered body of knowledge for the association management profession that empowers membership-based organizations (MBOs) to deliver more meaningful, purposeful, and transformative experiences to their members, advance their members’ respective fields of endeavor, and make lasting positive contributions to the larger society.
Our Vision
Membership-based organizations play a continuous and consequential role in generating positive social change on individual, collective, and societal levels in constitutionally representative democracies.
Our Values
Bestow Respect
Everyone possesses inherent value and thus should be afforded due respect.
Inspire Synergism
Innovations are generated when individuals are given the opportunity to share their expertise and experiences.
Practice Innovation
Lasting solutions require the collective willingness to challenge existing assumptions, concepts, practices, and boundaries.
Be Purposeful
New information only becomes consequential when it is widely shared with others.
Engender Transformative Experiences
Develop programs, products and services that are uniquely designed for MBOs’ volunteer and staff leaders to generate positive change.
Embrace Collaboration
Engage routinely with others who share our interests and values.