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Starting Early: Super Bowl-Funded Community Projects Get Going Months Before Big Game

Associations Now

The Minneapolis-hosted Super Bowl LII is still nearly eight months away. Super Bowl LII isn’t coming to Minneapolis until February, but the big game’s impact is already being felt in Minnesota—and for reasons that have nothing to do with football. For example, St.

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Creative Fundraising: The Groundhog Day Campaign

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Here’s a great example: A Groundhog Day campaign from House of Charity in Minneapolis. I’m always urging you to give something new a try, and to mix it up a bit. Melissa Musliner, House of Charity’s Marketing & Development Director, is a Nonprofit Marketing Guide All-Access Pass holder.

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Destinations Make Diversity and Inclusion a Strategic Priority

Associations Now

” An example of the CVB’s D&I efforts for the American Council of the Blind’s upcoming summer meeting was mentioned in an article posted on MeetingsNet.com earlier this week. In March, the Meet Minneapolis Board approved the formation of the Diversity and Multicultural Action Committee and adopted a policy statement on D&I.

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Homeland Security Uses Nonprofit Grants to Help Prevent Terrorism

Associations Now

The latest example comes from an announcement by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which is donating $10 million to an array of local nonprofits, governments, and universities as part of an investment in the Countering Violent Extremism (CVE) Grant Program.

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Infographics & Data Visualization: Not Your Grandmother’s Pie Chart – Part 4

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Instead, Ceci Dadisman of the Palm Beach Opera, for example, has a different set of expectations: “We knew we weren’t going to get direct ticket sales from it; it’s more of a mission to further our presence in the community and about opera in general.” Minneapolis, Minnesota. Measuring Efficacy is Tricky Business. New York, NY.

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Embracing rapid change: Trends shaping the nonprofit sector in 2025

Candid

Take, for example, Joy Education Foundation, which has created a tool that acts as an AI-enabled friend. In another example, the American Cancer Society used AI to examine GoFundMe campaigns and found that over one-third of fundraising stories explicitly described financial hardships caused by medical issues.

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What 5G Could Mean for Events

Associations Now

Verizon has launched parts of a new 5G network in sections of Chicago and Minneapolis, while AT&T has implemented 5G networks in 19 cities but has no devices that support it just yet. In one famous example , an iPhone demo at an Apple event went south because there were more than 500 wireless networks running ad hoc in the venue.