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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20

Reid All About it

The Online News Association is turning their conference into a virtual “ global journalism innovation festival.” Check out the midnight sun and aurora borealis, paddling down the Chena River, or dog mushing in these 360-view videos from Fairbanks, Alaska. Virtual conference of the week. Two words: crunchy rice. Mon 6/1 at 12 p.m.

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Building evidence and innovating programs to reduce disparities in children’s well-being 

Candid

National scores ranged from 386 for Black children, 418 for American Indian or Alaska Native children, and 452 for Hispanic children, to 612 for children of two or more races, 697 for white children, and 771 for Asian and Pacific Islander children. society broadly.

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SCD Group: Chicken, Bus, Holland America & Associations: How do.

SCD Group

Last month, our Holland America (@HALcruises) tour bus broke down while we were driving the Top of the World highway (TOTWH) from Chicken, ALaska, to Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. Chicken, Alaska, an isolated (100+ miles from nearest cell signal) "way station" of 37 people is a hard hour drive from Tok, the nearest village.

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Ask These 5 Questions Before Planning Your Next Meeting

Associations Now

The city is also a great jumping-off point to Whistler, Victoria, Alaska cruises, and the Okanagan Valley wine region, making extended stays a real lure. How important is global innovation as a backdrop to our conference? And architecture buffs will want to spend a few extra days in Montréal.

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Have you tried these? 7 Innovative Ideas to Fight this Recession

Experts in Membership Marketing

A few months ago MGI published a white paper I wrote entitled "Seven Innovative Ideas to Fight This Recession." 2 - Personalize the Member Experience.Literally Kimberly Gray of the Associated General Contractors of Alaska told me about how they started a group of assocate members called the Associates Council. .' #1

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Association Brain Food: 4.22.22

Reid All About it

Learn how to expand your personal comfort zone and turn challenges into opportunities, help your team function like a well-oiled machine that can solve its own problems so you can stop fighting other people’s fires, and build a culture of innovation, experimentation, agility and accountability that grows itself. More info/register.

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Here Come the Drones: Industry Groups Talk Up FAA’s Unmanned Device Tests

Associations Now

Among the picks was a trio of schools—University of Alaska, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, and Virginia Tech— as well as the state of Nevada, Griffiss International Airport in New York state, and the North Dakota Department of Commerce.