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Help Us Help You: Become an Institute Member

As an IFD Institutional Member, you can:

• Develop and implement a successful strategic plan to manage diversity.
• Tap into a pool of diverse management talent.
• Develop a network of colleagues tackling the issues of managing diversity.
• Formally affiliate with a progressive organization to meet your organization's diversity goals.

Benefits of an IFD institutional membership include:

• Benchmarking Survey - The Benchmarking Survey for U.S. Hospitals - members are notified first for participation in the 2012 survey.  Priority access is provided to information, case studies and reports related to the 2009 survey(the first survey of its kind) and our subsequent survey results. 

• Learning Moments  - a series of Case Studies designed to provide  members with strong examples of diversity management and cultural competence in health care. For more information, please see this press release.
   
• Diversity Dialogues - our popular series of free educational webinars featuring nationally and renowned speakers on topics of pressing concern in health care. (Diversity Dialogues are normally $80 per session for non-members).

• One-on-One Advisory Services - technical, one-on-one assistance is offered at a discounted rate on strategic planning, language assistance programs, best practices and other diversity management and cultural competency-related subjects.

• Unlimited Career Center Usage - the Institute's online job and resume database links health care employers and diverse job candidates.  Members may post unlimited positions, an unlimited number of times.  Assistance with some executive searches is provided.

• National Leadership and Education Conference - our biennial conference brings together health care leaders and diversity practitioners to tap into state-of-the art thinking on diversity management.  Members receive $100 off each conference registration.

• Minority Trustee Candidate Registry - our online database contains information for hundreds of qualified individuals from various racial, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. This database is the only one of it's kind for diversified trustee candidates.

• American Leadership Council for Diversity - opportunity to become a member of the Institute's advisory council , which brings the most advanced diversity practitioners in health care together to develop standards of practice and share information about new initiatives.
  
• Opportunities to network with like-minded health care professionals, as well as with leaders and pioneers in health care diversity; and much, much more. 

Click here to apply for membership at The Institute today!

Updated: Sept. 01, 2011

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