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Association Brain Food: 3.17.23

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Join our EDI Committee and panel discuss how to keep inclusion in mind for your events and meetings moving forward. Building an Effective Audit Committee Learn how to build and use the audit committee to protect and strengthen exempt organizations. 1 CMP credit. More info/register. Host: MPI Wed 3/22 at 8 am. 1 CAE credit.

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Antique Groups Feel Pressure of Anti-Ivory Rules

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Several states have already instituted bans or are in the process of cracking down on ivory sales, including Vermont. “People are having trouble connecting their grandmother’s piano with terrorism,” Vermont Rep. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) pledges to uphold.

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Heart Association Encourages More Colorful Eating

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It’s about adding colorful, nutritious, and vitamin-packed fruit and vegetables to meals instead of choosing unhealthier options,” Dr. Rachel Johnson, nutrition professor at University of Vermont and past chair of the AHA Nutrition Committee, said in a statement.

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Maine Principals Adopt Policy for Transgender Athletes

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“Our management committee asked staff to prepare a draft policy. ” Maine joins Colorado, Vermont, and Washington as states with transgender high school student-athlete guidelines, according to the Maine Public Broadcasting Network.

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Essay Contest Harnesses Student Voices to Fight Hazing

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He said he’d like the see the selection committee “take all of the submissions and draft them somehow as a sort of whitepaper/best practices [document] that young people can look at as a resource [showing] what other high school programs are doing across the country to prevent hazing.”.

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Controversial GMO Labeling Bill Stalls in Senate

Associations Now

The chamber’s decision to pass on the measure, for now at least, leaves Vermont’s first-in-the-nation mandatory GMO labeling law untouched months before it’s expected to take effect. He implied that the Vermont bill was an initiative undertaken by organic food companies to stand out. billion each year.

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

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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. Vermont, Oregon, Washington, and Montana, along with California, have passed such bills.). The issue is also contentious north of the border.