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5 Ways to Maximize Your Fundraising Event Sponsorships

Achieve

Target the Right Businesses Start by identifying businesses within your networks where your nonprofit has a personal connection, whether it’s through a staff member, board member, planning committee member, or dedicated volunteer. He lives and golfs in Lincoln, Nebraska with his wife and three sons.

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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. 12 Tips for association board/committee work. Labels: AI , association management , best practices , SCD Group. As we say in Humanize, "best practices are evil. Conversations on the Future of Associations.

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Medical Societies Speak Out on Proposed Aid-in-Dying Bills

Associations Now

Last week a Nebraska legislative committee began deliberations on one such bill , prompting protests from the Nebraska Medical Association and Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians. But medical organizations remain hesitant to support so-called aid-in-dying bills.

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How One Advocacy Group Is Making the Case for Open Primaries in New Mexico

Associations Now

In the latter case, New Mexico Open Primaries wants to encourage the creation of a nonpartisan independent committee to help with redistricting in 2021. While the group hopes to push the issue in the state’s legislature, efforts to do that failed in committee earlier this year.

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Boozing, Bribing and Brawling on Election Day

Reid All About it

Since then, several in Congress have attempted to make Election Day a federal holiday or move it to the weekend, but their bills never made it out of committee or died on the House floor. But, when Lincoln won the election of 1860, it took six days for the Pony Express to deliver the news from a fort in Nebraska to a fort in Nevada.