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Member News

• The National Building Museum hosts DC's first Architecture and Design Film Festival. ADFF, which started ten years ago in New York, has expanded to many cities and worked with other AAO Members, including the Tulsa Foundation for Architecture and the Louisiana Architectural Foundation.
• The American Society of Landscape Architects will host the 2018 Diversity Summit from June 22-24 at the ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture in Washington, D.C. Those interested in participating are encouraged to submit letters of interest by March 7.
• The exhibition Social Housing – New European Projects is on view now at the Center for Architecture in New York. Based on a book and exhibition commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), its installation in New York is timely as the city grapples with how to provide more affordable housing.
• SPUR recently asked leading urbanists: what's your favorite book about cities? If you're looking for some new reading material, the answers are compiled in Reading the City.

Design Ed: Makerspaces, Starchitects, and Enrollment Stats

• Montour Elementary School in Pittsburgh opened a Brick Makerspace supported by LEGO Education, whose website has lesson plans and other resources for teaching with LEGO bricks.
• The Thom Mayne Young Architects program, an initiative by the Pritzker-Prize winning founder of Morphosis, is extended for a third semester. 6th grade students at Hall Elementary School in Bridgeport, CT will receive new Pixelbook laptops donated by Google and instruction from architecture students at Pratt Institute.
• The Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA) reported a 10% decline in enrollment in architecture degree programs over the last five years. In Why Architecture?, Architect Magazine takes a look at what can be done to attract more interest from the K-12 set, with examples from RISD, AIA K-12 Initiatives, and NOMA.

Nonprofit Governance and Charitable Giving

• This month, BoardSource ran a piece on how to Recruit Nonprofit Board Members with Purpose and Process. It was based on the findings about board composition, culture and practices from Leading With Intent: 2017 National Index of Nonprofit Board Practices.
• Nonprofit Quarterly published an interesting article on Reframing Governance. It argues that the new nonprofit governance model relies more on interorganizational alliances than traditional board roles.
• And for those AAO members in the United States, Campaign Counsel offers practical advice about changes we might see in charitable giving in Interpreting the Revised Tax Law: A Breakdown of the Impact on your Fundraising Plans.

Jobs and Opportunities

• Design Trust for Public Space, Equitable Public Space Fellowship
• Farnsworth House, Executive Director
• Hester Street Collaborative, Project Manager
• National Trust for Historic Preservation, Manager of Programmatic Diversity
• Van Alen Institute, Marketing and Communications Coordinator

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