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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

Instead, IFT developed a public awareness campaign around an important and challenging issue in its industry. So, we looked at the key challenges out there, and a big challenge is that we have to feed 9 billion people by 2050. Part of our role as a nonprofit is education,” Bowman said. “So,

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Vinyl Groups Join Forces for Industrywide Sustainability Council

Associations Now

In light of a growing global population and the depletion of natural resources, the Vinyl Institute (VI) has spearheaded the creation of the Vinyl Business and Sustainability Council (VBSC) to bring the industry together in promoting and implementing best sustainability practices.

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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. Hear about the latest industry issues and trends that impact planner/hotelier negotiations, as the seller’s market shifts in some regions to a buyer’s market, including specific methods to validate and report contract risk mitigation.

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Conference Circuit: The NAACP’s Annual Convention

Associations Now

A commerce and industry show will feature corporate, government, and minority exhibitors, and attendees will be able to browse a retail expo to boot. Topics of discussion range from “The Role of the Poultry Industry in Feeding the World in 2050″ to “10th Anniversary of the Chicken Genome Sequence.”

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Conference Circuit: The NAACP’s Annual Convention

Associations Now

A commerce and industry show will feature corporate, government, and minority exhibitors, and attendees will be able to browse a retail expo to boot. Topics of discussion range from “The Role of the Poultry Industry in Feeding the World in 2050″ to “10th Anniversary of the Chicken Genome Sequence.”

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Reaching Out To Global Markets Through Meetings & Events.

GlowGlobally

and North American corporations and industries have significant presence in these markets and have started to leverage the benefits of working in a diversified global marketplace. India has the potential to nearly catch up with the United States by 2050. A number of U.S. Matured Market- Europe.