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Iowa Builders Group’s New Endowment Targets Industry Skills Gap

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A new endowment launched by Master Builders of Iowa will fund innovative solutions to close the industry’s skills gap and bring younger workers into the construction field. We are seeing more people retiring, and we just are not filling those positions as quickly as we necessarily need,” he said, according to Radio Iowa.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

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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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SCD Group: Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation?

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Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation? You CAN clone a cow (apparently), and the cow operates pretty much the same in Iowa as it does in Nebraska. Under Armour’s race to discover innovative fitness. Do "Best Practices" prevent association innovation. Causeaholic. AMR Management Services.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

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He’s the host and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the cooking channel host of the Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation on CBS and also published a book called Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving. And, you know, because their pop culture is really important in America. Mike’s uncle is a salesman for Willowbrook in rural Iowa.