How Does NESA Differ From Other National Associations?
• Knowledge of what worked and did not work at other associations has been applied to design NESA to avoid the structural problems that have raised challenges in the past. • NESA is structured to serve the state association. This avoids inserting NESA in between the state association and its members. • NESA is structured to focus on the common needs while allowing subgroups of states to caucus to address mutual needs that are not common to everyone. • In NESA, the officers would have no power to create new policy or expend funds without board approval. • In NESA, task forces will be created by the board from time to time to deal with specific issues.
