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Association Brain Food: 3.1.24

Reid All About it

Just what you need to pretend you’re elsewhere, a bald eagle cam from Big Bear Valley in California. I know you know that, but Allie Volpe at Vox shares ideas for moving your body throughout the day. Nice view, too!

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Women’s Hockey Association Launches Dream Gap Tour

Associations Now

Starting next month, PWHPA will head to Toronto, Chicago, and New Hampshire where 80 of its players to compete against one another in four-team tournaments, with more potential events planned in other hockey hot spots such as Buffalo, New York, and Southern California. Together, we are on a mission to change that.”.

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Keep Ahead of Higher Ed, the Professional Development Competition for Associations

WBT Systems

A University of California at Berkeley administrator said, “There are a lot of potential paths we can take to replace university degrees with more stackable competencies.” Employers and industry experts are invited to lecture, participate on panels, and sponsor labs and experiential cases.

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8 must read articles for Association Executives

SCD Group

After reading about FastCompany’s Top 50 innovators, Lori captured 4 things that membership organizations could learn from the World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies: Walk the talk (#1 Apple) Play the long game (#4 Amazon) Relentlessly reinvent (#12 Southern New Hampshire University) Make yourself useful(#30 LinkedIn).

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Group Aims to Help School Counselors Face Growing Caseloads

Associations Now

1,061 The average number of students assigned to each school counselor in California for the 2010-11 school year, according to the American School Counselor Association [PDF]. California’s ratio was the highest in the U.S. Only New Hampshire, Vermont, Wyoming, and the U.S.

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Leading a Staff That Works Everywhere

Associations Now

Others are located at other remote points elsewhere in Alaska, as well as in California, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire. But less than half of its 15-person staff works there, and its executive director, Dr. Robert Rich, CAE, is based in Washington, DC. and 500 miles away, so be it.

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Making Waves: Surfing Groups Bank Sport’s Future on Man-Made Parks

Associations Now

New wave-building technologies, such as American Wave Machines’ SurfStream system , are helping to bring surfing to the masses in locales that are not exactly hotbeds of wave-riding, like New Hampshire and Quebec. Potential for growth: The benefits for the industry could be huge.