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Association-Backed Coalition Promotes Alternatives to Opioids for Pain

Associations Now

For example, Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America, a group that supports community coalitions in the fight against drug use, recently gave a grant to a local nonprofit , New York’s Rockville Centre Coalition for Youth Works, to make the public aware of the dangers of opioid use. “We

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.20.19

Reid All About it

Tis the season to support your local food bank—you can find yours on this map from Feeding America (where you can also search by zip code). Do you know about the horrific impact some of the new gig worker laws will have on freelance writers, journalists and other professions? If this law ever comes to North Carolina, I am screwed.

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Be Productive Anywhere: Tips for Getting Work Done During a Flight Delay

Associations Now

CBS Chicago recently noted a delay so lengthy that it forced a plane that was supposed to head to New York’s La Guardia Airport to instead be diverted to Newark, New Jersey—an airport 30 miles away—because of a travel curfew involving the NYC airport.

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Video Marketing Strategy: How To Bring Your Brand To Life

CMA Solutions

Let’s look at IM Supply, which provides electrical and lighting maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) solutions for multi-site industrial customers across North America. When Jersey HVAC Pros asked us to make them stand out in the marketplace, we created several marketing deliverables, including an animated video.

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How Associations are Attracting Students to the Profession or Industry

Smooth The Path

We are finding that there are not enough new graduates to take the place of those who are retiring, particularly in highly technical fields. In an effort to get more students interested in the aerospace industry the Aerospace Industries Association created the Team America Rocketry Challenge. A Contest that Inspires Interest.

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British Groups Join Voices Calling for Preservation at Princeton

Associations Now

In 2012, the National Trust for Historic Preservation even put the site on its list of the most endangered historic places in America. The American Association for State and Local Historyand the New Jersey Chapter of the Sierra Club are among a handful of other history and conservation groups supporting the cause.

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Nonprofits Join Outcry Over Ebola Quarantines

Associations Now

The opposition led New York to soften its stance on quarantines, while New Jersey allowed Hickox to return to her home in Maine. But by Monday, Hickox, a nurse with Doctors Without Borders, had been released from mandatory quarantine in New Jersey after returning from treating Ebola patients in Sierra Leone.