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Monday Buzz: Why Boston Doesn’t Have Cheap Rooms

Associations Now

An array of economic and geographic pressures have boosted Boston’s hotel rooms to extremely high rates. Case in point: the current situation in the Boston metro area. Those are the going rates now in Boston,” Paul Sacco, executive director at the Massachusetts Lodging Association, told the newspaper.

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Massachusetts Convention Center Authority to Produce Its Own Events

Associations Now

Rather than be a loss leader, relying on economic stimulus that meetings and events bring to Boston, the convention authority is looking to create revenue by coproducing events. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority is breaking into the events business in a new way. The Ernest N.

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The Happy Healthy Nonprofit Book Tour: You Are Invited To Join Us

Beth Kanter

Aliza Sherman and I never dreamed that our book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout , would be such a needed resource in the nonprofit field when we started writing it last year. Mon Feb 6 – BOSTON 6-8pm. REGISTER HERE for Boston Event with host Women Online. ➳ 3pm-4pm – ONLINE Foundation Center.

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The Commish: Scandal-Plagued Fantasy Sports Group Brings in New Leadership

Associations Now

Struggling with the biggest crisis in the industry’s short history, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association (FSTA) is trying a strategy straight out of the major leagues. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey is skeptical of the approach. On Wednesday, the trade group brought in a former Obama administration official, Seth D.

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Associations Keep Eye on Budding No-Homework Trend

Associations Now

But this change in strategy goes against the traditional thinking on the issue. In comments to the Boston Globe , Thomas Scott, executive director of the Massachusetts Association of School Superintendents, characterized the recent change in mindset as the latest salvo in an ongoing debate over the role of homework. The reason?

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How Nonprofits Can Use Measurement To Adapt to the Facebook Algorithm Change

Beth Kanter

Make sure you’ve got a healthy mix of images Below, an image from United Way of Massachusetts Bay & Merrimack Valley (an organization I support) shows the value of volunteering. Our research and our day-to-day experience shows that images and videos tend to have much higher engagement than text-only posts or links.

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Thursday Buzz: Boston’s Events Venue Gets a Major Upgrade

Associations Now

The skinny on a just-passed $1 billion plan to revamp the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center. The ink is still fresh from Massachusetts Gov. Courtesy of that pen , “An Act Relative to the Expansion of the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center,” or H. percent tax on hotel rooms, according to the Boston Herald.

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