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Firearms Group, Suicide Prevention Group Join Forces to Save Lives

Associations Now

The National Shooting Sports Foundation, one of country’s largest gun industry groups, is teaming with the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) in efforts to prevent suicides nationwide. It comes months after a successful pilot program between the groups.

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Report: The Story Machine Learning Tells About Nonprofits

Associations Now

Recently, the data analytics firm Civis teamed with the magazine Fast Company to dive into data about nonprofits in 15 different topic areas. The firm used topic modeling, a type of machine learning, to analyze 2017 tax filings from 353,000 nonprofits secured from the IRS and managed using Amazon Web Services.

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Strategic Communications Power Membership Value at the American Public Power Association

Association Adviser

We are a team of 10 people managing external and internal communications, branding and media relations for public power. Our news team may identify and write a story about a cool member program that we then use to pitch mainstream media. It’s shocking to think of something like that in 2017, but it’s true!