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Iowa Builders Group’s New Endowment Targets Industry Skills Gap

Associations Now

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. This week, Master Builders of Iowa announced the launch of MBI Works, a $5 million endowment to fund new resources for career education and workforce recruitment.

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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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For Member Onboarding, Think Outside the Inbox

Associations Now

She says it’s possible to reach new members in a variety of ways and argues a multi-pronged strategy works best for new-member onboarding. A lot of associations are developing new welcome strategies that make members feel part of something more special.”. “So, The Iowa Lean Consortium took that approach last year.

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Airport Group Highlights Members with Fresh Deck of Trading Cards

Associations Now

Taking advantage of the lasting popularity of airport memorabilia, Airports Council International—North America is working on a set of trading cards with some of its members. Which makes cards a perfect promotional tool for the Airports Council International—North America (ACI-NA), a trade group that represents airport facilities.

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

SCD Group

You CAN clone a cow (apparently), and the cow operates pretty much the same in Iowa as it does in Nebraska. Strategy | Content | Discovery. Chicken, Bus, Holland America & Associations: How. Labels: AI , association management , best practices , SCD Group. As we say in Humanize, "best practices are evil. Newer Post.