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The Perfect Storm

Spark Consulting

I’d like to share some sobering statistics about higher education and employment: In the United States, students graduate from college with an average debt load of nearly $29,000. In the United States in 2015, 32% of employers reported. By 2020, 65% of all jobs in the United States will require some.

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Health Partnership Comes Up With Safer Opioid Prescription Strategies

Associations Now

“Both organizations agreed that the goal was not to create or act as a safety event reporting system but rather to bring together relevant data from multiple sources to inform strategies to address a high-priority safety issue,” the organizations said in the white paper [PDF].

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Going Global in Trust-Challenged Times

Associations Now

Global trust in institutions is at a low ebb, which presents a challenge for associations reaching beyond the United States. Expansion is still worth it, but be careful about your strategy. ” That erosion isn’t exclusively a function of partisan politics in the United States and Europe, though no doubt that has an impact.

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Caribbean Tourism Group Tries Leveraging Cuba’s Growth

Associations Now

The Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA), which represents most of the tourism hotspots around the Caribbean, is speaking up about the return to normalcy between the United States and Cuba. The goal would be to leverage Cuba’s current growth—the country saw a 36 percent increase in U.S.

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Leading Members in a (More) Global Economy

Associations Now

Two recent association-specific studies shed some light on the urgency of the issue, and suggest a few paths toward a focused global strategy. But members are also challenged by economic instability in other countries (18 percent), managing a global workforce (17 percent) and competition from outside the United States (14 percent).

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Membership Marketing Blog: Is There a Membership Gene?

Membership Marketing

in the United States associations are established to promote public order, commerce, industry, morality, and religion; for there is no end which the human will, seconded by the collective exertions of individuals, despairs of attaining.” Cost of Wrong Strategy. (8). growth strategies. (4). Growth Strategy. (43).

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NASBP’s Legislative Efforts ‘Bond’ Education With Action to Influence Policy

Association Adviser

NASBP member firms assist businesses of all sizes to qualify for surety bonds that guarantee the performance of construction and other contracts in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and elsewhere. We write brochures, pamphlets and white papers, and even offer an online course for small contractors.