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North Carolina LGBT Law Widely Rebuked

Associations Now

A quickly passed state law in North Carolina that effectively ends local antidiscrimination ordinances affecting the LGBT community has proved hugely controversial with advocacy groups, sports organizations, corporations, and trade groups. The bill— announced, passed, and signed by North Carolina’s legislative body and Gov.

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HB2 Costing North Carolina Billions in Lost Business, Says AP Report

Associations Now

The Associated Press this week reported that the controversial law, which prevents local governments from passing LGBT protections, will cost North Carolina at least $3.76 billion in revenue over a dozen years—including nearly $200 million in lost concert, sports, and conference revenue. Several attempts to repeal HB2 since Gov.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 12.20.19

Reid All About it

If you’re in North Carolina, please consider supporting the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. If this law ever comes to North Carolina, I am screwed. Presenters: Agnes Amos-Coleman, MBA, CMP, education, conference, event, certification consultant, Amos-Coleman. Now, on to the show….

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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

As a first prompt, you might ask it to provide three cities based on where your association held its conference over the last five years. The results? San Diego, California Orlando, Florida Seattle, Washington Let’s say these all sound appealing, but you want to get a bit more granular.

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Association Management Group (AMG) CEO Paul Mengert Named Educator of the Year by Community Associations Institute (CAI)

AMG

Each year at its annual conference, CAI honors individuals who have made significant contributions to CAI and the community association way of life. His undergraduate studies were at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. The combined asset value of these communities is more than $5 Billion.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.6.16

Reid All About it

– Metrics Mania for Conference Improvement: Vanity or Actionable Metrics. Are you guilty of touting feel-good conference vanity metrics? We repeatedly confuse our conference activity for healthy vital signs. Join us as we discover how to shatterproof our conferences and measure what matters. Tue 6/7 at 2 p.m.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.9.16

Reid All About it

This one’s for my North Carolina association community. Facilitator: Tom Purdy, IT Director, North Carolina Board of Nursing. How Conference Networking Improves Participants’ Brain Health. Host: KiKi L’Italien, Amplified Growth. Wed 5/11 at 9 a.m. AENC Technology Roundtable on Security. hours CAE credit.