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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

Associations Now

The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, continuing its three-year Tapestry Project, has launched “action labs” in five cities to support black-owned businesses. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level.

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The American Geophysical Union is Using Data to Dig Up Industry Experts

Associations Now

To prepare for such events, the American Geophysical Union is turning to data to more swiftly identify experts within its database of roughly 300,000 earth and space scientists who could readily talk with reporters should a disaster strike. at the 2015 ASAE Annual Meeting & Exposition in Detroit. Please share in the comments.

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Three Tips for a Global Start That Sticks

Associations Now

For the better part of the past year I’ve been working on that question with the ASAE Foundation, which is in the midst of a multiphase project to better understand what’s made associations successful outside of North America. The result of my portion of the effort is Global Growth Strategies , a report written in conjunction with MCI Group.

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Water Works Association Eyes Broader Lessons in Flint’s Water Crisis

Associations Now

The association notes that the level of water donations is likely to be much larger than reported. In an effort to save money, the cash-strapped city had decided to stop acquiring water from Detroit, instead planning to join a new project that would source water from a pipeline into Lake Huron.

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14 Tips from a PR Hall of Famer

SCD Group

After college graduation, I became a news reporter for The Associated Press (AP). As luck would have it, I was only looking for a six month position (so I could go to grad school in the fall) and he had a six month opening (because one of the reporters had been called to six months active National Guard duty.) Yes,” I said.

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