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How established communities can become accidentally exclusive

Our community center board keeps making decisions that serve long-time members while newcomers drop out after a few months but when anyone brings up changing how we do things the founders get protective of 'what's always worked.' We're slowly becoming irrelevant while insisting we're inclusive.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The comfort of familiar processes can become a barrier to inclusion that drives away the very people a community claims to welcome.

Ideas that help explain it
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