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California Association Turns Farm Workers Into Farm Owners

Associations Now

ALBA owns a 110-acre organic farm, and to help the laborers get started with their own farm businesses, it leases them farmland at subsidized prices. Since 2002, 90 ALBA graduates have begun their own independent farms off-site and are doing well. It also provides supplies like fertilizer and irrigation tools.

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Jeffrey Cufaude, Idea Architects: I Want ASAE to Fail. And You.

Idea Architects

And there simply is no way to be the center without more room in the Price is Right rangefinder for trying new things. We can then talk about the environment in which the association and the profession or industry it serves are operating and what little bets and strategic investments would be the right thing to do. Dec 2002 (6).

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Arrested Development? A Strategic Approach to Technology Reboots Association Growth

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HIMSS began reaching beyond “member” to “audience” in 2002 by offering resources and benefits not exclusive to dues-paying professionals. As early as 1990, HIMSS was already on the path of expanding the sphere of influence for health care IT by engaging in industry partnerships. In this excerpt from our book, Association 4.0—Positioning

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Big Data: Big Headache or Big Opportunity for Associations?

Association Adviser

It seems you can’t go to an industry or association conference these days without seeing Big Data somewhere on the agenda. When I worked for a large financial association, I continually stumbled across troves of valuable research, surveys and reports that contained incredible nuggets of intelligence about our members and our industry.

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