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Raising spirits: How a Texas community is engaging residents during COVID-19

Ungrated

Residents have donated money, food, snacks, and water to staff at hospitals and clinics in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, says Page Austin, Harvest’s lifestyle manager. It is the Dallas-Fort Worth area’s first “agrihood”—a growing trend of communities in the U.S. that offer a farm-to-table lifestyle.

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Time for less sitting, more mobile engagement

Virtual

What do Fort Worth, Birmingham, Dubai, Denver and Atlanta have in common? All advertise in the first few pages of the July/August edition of Associations Now magazine as locations for your next association meeting. I’ll confess, Associations Now isn’t typically my top priority.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.21.16

Reid All About it

Central (networking at 8:30 a.m.) – Dallas Fort Worth Association Executives Association Day. You can start doing that by setting aside one hour a week for you. Maybe one of these virtual or in-person events will be a good place to start. Mon 3/12 at 9 a.m. Susan Robertson, CAE from ASAE is the keynote.

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And the survey says…we’re scared

Aaron Wolowiec

It’s not just having people at the registration desk but having a bit of heightened security on site,” said Bob Walker of the MPI Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter. And so, organizations are spending much more cautiously.

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ASAE Joins Tourism, Business Groups to Oppose Texas “Religious Refusal” Bill

Associations Now

ASAE President and CEO John Graham, FASAE, CAE, joined leaders from Texas Welcomes All, Texas Competes, Visit Dallas, Visit Fort Worth, PCMA and others at a press conference in Austin to oppose SB 17 and SB 15, another bill pending in the Texas Legislature.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.14.19

Reid All About it

Host: Dallas-Fort Worth Association Executives (DFWAE). Explore the role of the board in strategic planning, financial oversite, and member engagement as well as ways to leverage board members as people of influence who can drive the mission of the association. Presenters: Julie Hart, President, CFO by Design. Wed 6/19 at 2 p.m.

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Groups Concerned Pending Texas Bill Could Weaken LGBTQ Protections

Associations Now

But six major Texas cities—Austin, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Plano and San Antonio—have their own nondiscrimination protections in place. Unlike 21 other states and the District of Columbia, Texas employment discrimination laws don’t explicitly protect LGBTQ workers.

Texas 70