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How Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Can Help Associations Adapt to a Tight Events Market

Associations Now

For the past decade, Travel Portland has been focusing on intentional change with its EDI efforts, said Angela Nelson, vice president of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Travel Portland recently reviewed its process for evaluating vendors when it issues requests for proposals and requests for qualifications. “We

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Making Connections: 5 Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Strategies

Achieve

This fundraising strategy has gained momentum in recent years. We’ve provided five effective strategies to help you get started: Start Planning Early Combine Fundraising Events Recruit Mindfully Offer Incentives Equip Your Participants Let’s explore these strategies in more detail! Develop a recruiting strategy.

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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

Ideally, you’ll want to keep track of the output you’re getting so that you can continue to improve your prompt engineering strategy and future prompts. The difference is in the details and playing around with what you enter, much like an Internet search. The more detailed data you give the AI, the better answers you’re going to get back.

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[Webinar] Mission Critical: How One Association Transformed its Live Event to Virtual in Record Time

Velvet Chainsaw

When their reimagined conference couldn’t take place in Portland, Ore., Join VCC’s free webinar and take away lessons you can apply immediately to your event strategy. This is not a typical story. The American Association of Suicidology’s annual meeting had been growing steadily in recent years.

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Conference Circuit: Western Arts Alliance

Associations Now

WAA 2019 begins on Monday morning with an opening plenary featuring Lisa Bates, director of the Center for Urban Studies at Portland State University. Bates, along with other academics and artists, will discuss how the arts can play a larger role in advancing creative strategies toward a pluralistic community and country.

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Mixed Support for New York City’s New Sodium Warning

Associations Now

Consumers should have the same access to nutrition information from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon.”. Research shows Americans already eat within the safe range of sodium consumption and population-wide sodium reduction strategies are unnecessary and could be harmful,” she said.

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Oregon Electric-Car Group Eyes “Living Lab” Storefront

Associations Now

Drive Oregon is working to build a permanent storefront in Portland to help draw attention to the benefits of electric cars in real-world use. Car and Driver notes that the strategy could help win over a skeptical public that has largely ignored the electric vehicle segment. An electric mobility group certainly thinks so.

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