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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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Amid Rural Broadband Weak Spots, Nonprofits Offer Last-Mile Help

Associations Now

NeighborWorks America, a congressionally chartered nonprofit, noted in May that a lack of broadband access threatened the education and employment pictures for those living in rural areas. The Federal Communications Commission reported earlier this year that 41 percent of Americans on tribal lands don’t have access to broadband.

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Compare Association Management Software Platforms

GrowthZone

The platform includes fundraising initiatives, membership, member portals, communities, microsites, meetings, events, eBusiness, revenue accounting, reports, dashboards, training, and continuing education management with multiple upgrades a year. has been building web applications since 2001 and launched Wild Apricot in 2006.

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The Transformative Power Of Peerology

Velvet Chainsaw

In the world of conference education, the future is not necessarily about the next technology gadget or innovative session format. SME — Subject Matter Experts — has long been an important component of education session development. Your Conference Education Needs A New Narrative. Three Things Peerology Leverages.

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Why Is Your Association Still Sharing PDFs Online?

Associations Now

During ASAE’s Membership, Marketing & Communications Conference (MMCC) last week, this point came up during “ 5 Website Improvements to Make in 5 Minutes (or Less) ,” a session hosted by McFadyen Solutions’ Ray van Hilst and the American Association of Diabetes Educators’ John Tyler.

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Presenter Tips For Audience Discussions

Velvet Chainsaw

If there is not instruction and learning happening on both sides of the presenter-learner situation, then what we call education is insignificant at best. Most importantly, a discussion is two-way spoken communication between conference participants. It also includes two-way communication between participants and the speaker.

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Association Subculture: Information? Give it Away Now.

Association Subculture

A better use of our collective time would be re-examining the book " Exploring the Future - Seven Strategic Conversations That Could Transform Your Association ," by Robert Olson and Autl Dighe published by the ASAE Foundation in 2001. Their first foray was at MIT in 2001, when the school agreed to put coursework online for free.