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Association Chapters Help People With Alzheimer’s Connect With Art

Associations Now

Alzheimer’s, a form of dementia that affects memory, thinking, and behavior with symptoms worsening over time, is the sixth leading cause of death in America and currently affects more than 5 million Americans. Art has a way of bringing you back,” Julie Green, senior manager of school programs at Emory University’s Michael C.

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National Park Foundation Campaign Targets Younger Generation of Park Goers

Associations Now

When the National Park System was created in 1916, no one would have imagined that technology could someday enable schoolchildren in New York to explore parks thousands of miles away with the touch of a button,” Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell said in a statement.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.1.20

Reid All About it

Find yours on the Feeding America website. Gabrielle Hamilton, New York Times ). Host: New York Society of Association Executives. Hilliard, PhD, Esq, CMP, Attorney, Professor, Speaker, College of Coastal Georgia. How Do Members (Especially New Members) Want to Be Engaged? Take a train ride from St.

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Report: LGBT-Owned Businesses on the Rise

Associations Now

. “Corporate America is saying, ‘We want to do business with you—not despite the fact that you’re LGBT but because you’re LGBT,’” Nelson told the news outlet. Twenty years ago, it was enough to sponsor a pride parade. It’s not enough anymore.”.

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What Associations Need to Know About Technology

Association Adviser

As Thomas Friedman, bestselling author of The World Is Flat, quipped in a recent New York Times op-ed , “something really big happened in the world’s wiring in the last decade, but it was obscured by the financial crisis and post-9/11.” By Hank Berkowitz. Read our Corner Office interview with Mantella.

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What Smart Associations Do Differently

Association Adviser

New Orleans Saints. New York Giants. “Every member has a story about how they got into the business,” related Kristen Hartman, director of member experience for the Professional Photographers of America (PPA). TiK ToK(Ke$ha). Rolling In The Deep (Adele). Thrift Shop (Macklemore & Ryan Lewis).

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