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Membership Hack: Virtual Chapters

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How to hack it? That’s why NIGP, the Institute for Public Procurement, set up a virtual chapter to connect members far away from each other in Alaska and Hawaii. I talked with a couple of people from Alaska and found out they had many of the same issues we experienced in Hawaii. For Hawaii, it’s island to island.

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Library Group Launches Accessibility Grant Program 

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studying how to support autistic patrons; a library in Winfield, Kan., To that end, a key metric for the success of the program is not raw numbers of patrons served, but how well the program serves the subset of the community that’s targeted. “We Among the recipients are a library in Bessemer, Penn.,

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Storytelling for Grant Writers: 10 Tactical & Stylistic Tips

Achieve

Identify who owns that information and how to access it—generating a report in your CRM , collecting constituent testimonials, etc. Her book, How to Write a Grant: Become a Grant Writing Unicorn, is a bestseller for nonprofit fundraising and grants.

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Associations Assist With Investigation After Seattle Hijacking

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And associations are offering their assistance as officials at the airport—along with the FBI and Alaska Airlines, which owned the Horizon Air 76-seater—try to make sense of the incident. The hijacking of a passenger plane at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport by an airline employee on Friday was, by all accounts, almost unprecedented.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.29.20

Reid All About it

Check out the midnight sun and aurora borealis, paddling down the Chena River, or dog mushing in these 360-view videos from Fairbanks, Alaska. Fri 5/29 at 12 p.m.* – 3 Ways To Lower Anxiety & Boost Productivity: How To Gain Momentum In Uncertain Times. How to Go Virtual (While Still Creating an Engaging Experience).

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West Coast Credit Union Groups See Strength in Numbers

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“I think that we in the Northwest have a lot of great content, we have a lot to offer,” said Heider, whose organization represents about 150 credit unions in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. After the networking event, the president of ICUL and the CEO of NWCUA began exploring how to forge more significant ties.

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West Coast Credit Union Groups See Strength in Numbers

Associations Now

“I think that we in the Northwest have a lot of great content, we have a lot to offer,” said Heider, whose organization represents about 150 credit unions in Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington. After the networking event, the president of ICUL and the CEO of NWCUA began exploring how to forge more significant ties.

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