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A Spotlight on 10 Top Impact Investors Driving Social Change

NXUnite

Unlike traditional investments that focus primarily on financial gains, impact investing strongly emphasizes achieving measurable outcomes in social good areas like environmental sustainability, education, poverty, social justice, and healthcare. One example of their work is their recent partnership with Meteor Education.

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Anniversary Special: Society Takes a Different Approach to Celebrating Its Birthday

Associations Now

So, we looked at the key challenges out there, and a big challenge is that we have to feed 9 billion people by 2050. IFT came up with the FutureFood 2050 initiative, a year-long public awareness campaign that will culminate this summer at the 75th IFT annual meeting. Part of our role as a nonprofit is education,” Bowman said. “So,

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Start with One Change to Create a Sustainable Meeting

Associations Now

Recycling is the last resort of the three, says Spangler, who was honored this year with the Young Professional Achievement RISE Award from Meeting Professionals International (MPI) for her work on MPI’s World Education Congress in Indianapolis last year. Indy has committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Vinyl Groups Join Forces for Industrywide Sustainability Council

Associations Now

Specifically, VBSC will create branded performance-improvement initiatives for the industry, educate companies working with the vinyl industry on those initiatives, and then review the results of the initiatives to ensure their success and continued relevance.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.24.17

Reid All About it

Learn how to develop your education strategy to optimize mobile learning in your organization. Presenters: John Santaferraro, chief analytics officer, Educational Measures. – Meetings 2050: How to Stay Ahead of Change in Events and Tradeshows. More info/register. Host: WebCourseworks. More info/register. Host: BizBash.

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Reaching Out To Global Markets Through Meetings & Events.

GlowGlobally

India has the potential to nearly catch up with the United States by 2050. The projected list of fastest growing economies to 2050 is headed by Vietnam, and the top 10 include Nigeria, Philippines, Egypt, and Bangladesh. Education (5). China is expected to overtake the United States as the largest economy around 2025.

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Conference Circuit: The NAACP’s Annual Convention

Associations Now

The Association on Higher Education and Disability will hold a conference in Sacramento, California, in conjunction with pepnet 2 , a group dedicated to improving postsecondary education for students who have hearing problems. July 14-19: It’s not just experts on student health who will convene in the upcoming week.