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Manufacturing Group Tries to Draw Millennials With New Initiative

Associations Now

“We want manufacturing companies to thrive,” Grealis told Crain’s Cleveland Business. The new initiative is slowly getting moving—PMA says 20 to 25 people attended a June meeting, and it has private mailing lists already active—but it plans to make an even bigger push in 2017, with the help of virtual learning courses.

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Obsessive Innovation: Why Associations Must Constantly Turn to What’s Next

Associations Now

He cites examples like Dollar Shave Club and Cleveland Whiskey for their unorthodox messaging and business approaches and suggests association executives must lead their associations and their industries toward similar reinvention. At which point, of course, it would only be time to find the next innovation.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.8.18

Reid All About it

From the mainstage to breakouts and exclusive speaker interviews, you’ll feel like you’re right there with everyone in Cleveland. From the mainstage to breakouts and exclusive speaker interviews, you’ll feel like you’re right there with everyone in Cleveland. CMP credits. More info/register. Host: PCMA Digital Experience Institute.

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Association Brain Food: 2.10.23

Reid All About it

The Top Opportunities for Lobbying and Advocacy in 2023 All signs point toward economic and political uncertainty: government spending is expected to decrease, and overall growth is slowing—plus a gridlocked Congress, of course. Even with this grim outlook, there are still opportunities for organizations to make strides in 2023.

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Don’t Manage Social Media Like the NFL

Associations Now

The league is starting to reverse course, but it nonetheless remains a great example of how not to manage a social strategy. — Cleveland Browns (@Browns) October 16, 2016. A couple of months ago, the National Football League—which makes billions of dollars on television contracts each year—had a really bad idea. Yes they do.”.

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Using Design Thinking to ReThink Our Nonprofit or Community Foundation Work

Beth Kanter

Last week I was lucky enough to facilitate a mini-innovation lab for 60 community foundation program officers at the first meeting of ProNet during the Council on Foundations conference in Cleveland, Ohio that celebrated 100 years of community philanthropy. Has your organization used design thinking to rethink the way it works?

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Ted Cruz, Republicans & Association Law

SCD Group

Background: Meeting in Cleveland, the Republic Party nominated Donald J. Once the board of directors makes a decision, each director, even those who may have opposed the course of action chosen by the board, must act consistently with that decision. Trump as its nominee to be President of the United States.