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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

Billhighway describes the chapter self-assessment exercise used by the Associated General Contractors of America to collect data for chapter benchmarking. The labor shortage America is currently experiencing is the largest issue disrupting supply chains, disrupting every industry and causing every member to rethink how they get the work done.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.11.21

Reid All About it

Billhighway talked with Peter Houstle of Mariner Management and Christi Beatty of the Associated General Contractors of America (AGC) who are working together on AGC’s chapter benchmarking project. Christi shared lessons learned so far, including five prerequisites for a chapter benchmarking project. Event budgets.

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Association Brain Food: 9.1.23

Reid All About it

Project management. But these meetings often occur only after things go wrong or big projects end, says Ethan Mollick. He links to research on the best approaches to debriefs, but it’d be easier to read this DelCor post on the project close. More info/register. Host: Black In Events Network Thu 9/7 at 2 p.m. 1 CAE credit.

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Back to School: Associations Help Teachers, Parents Get Ready

Associations Now

According to the latest edition of the National Retail Federation’s Back-to-School report, spending on gear for classes and beyond is on the rise and projected to hit a record $80.7 Here are just a few examples worth checking out and possibly even borrowing from: Retailers’ assessment of the back-to-school landscape.

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EEOC Complaint Says Targeted Facebook Job Listings Are Discriminatory

Associations Now

The complaint—filed on behalf of three named women, the Communications Workers of America, and a class of millions of female job seekers nationwide—claims that Facebook and nine employers discriminated against women in targeted job postings on the social network.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth Kanter

Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. You can find the recording here as well as an extensive list of resources and tools to better understand algorithmic bias and the implications for policy change. ?.

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Music Industry Groups Try to Hit the Right Note With Tax Credits

Associations Now

billion in 2011, according to a study commissioned by the Motion Picture Association of America. Currently, New York has $420 million set aside to “encourage companies to produce film projects in New York and help create and maintain film industry jobs.”