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Conference Circuit: Picture Perfect

Associations Now

Professionals in the biological communications field are headed to New Mexico next week to learn new skills from fellow life sciences and medical photographers, explore creative ideas, and develop new visual communications strategies. Conference: BIOCOMM 2015. Location: Santa Fe, New Mexico.

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Firearms Group, Suicide Prevention Group Join Forces to Save Lives

Associations Now

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , firearms were the most commonly used way to commit suicide among males in 2015, at 56.9 The effort—announced this week at NSSF’s Shooting, Hunting, and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show—touches upon a serious issue: According to the U.S.

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Is Minimum-Wage Opposition Beginning to Soften?

Associations Now

And at the start of 2015, 20 states increased their minimum wages , giving 3.1 The New Mexico Restaurant Association, which has generally opposed hikes in the minimum wage, might be willing to support a statewide increase to $8.30 The minimum wage is currently having a moment, both in Washington and at the state level.

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Spotlight on Diversity Part 1: How One Association’s Women Are Leaning In

Associations Now

Great Ideas Headed to ASAE’s 2015 Great Ideas Conference in Orlando, Florida? Just ask Ceela McElveny, chief communications and membership officer at the American Society of Radiologic Technologists (ASRT) in Albuquerque, New Mexico, who started a “Lean In Circle” for executive-level women colleagues a year and a half ago.

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Associations Assist Dairy Farmers in Storm’s Aftermath

Associations Now

storm of 2015, killed dozens of people, but it also killed tens of thousands of cows throughout New Mexico and Texas. A winter storm named Goliath has milk producers throughout Texas and New Mexico picking up the pieces, and the associations that represent them are looking to help out. Goliath, the deadliest U.S.

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Strategic Communications Power Membership Value at the American Public Power Association

Association Adviser

We finalized a three-year strategic plan at the end of 2015 that defines key goals across the organization. For example, one of our member utilities serves the Navajo Nation — spread across Arizona, Utah and New Mexico — where there are still about 15,000 families that have never been connected to electricity.