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Association Brain Food Weekly: 3.27.20

Reid All About it

The weekly list of free educational events and resources for the association community… The Virtual Conferences Survey from Tagoras comes at an opportune time since virtual events are on everyone’s mind. Here are the educational events scheduled for next week. Think of it as your good deed for the day.

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Groups Release Local Government Broadband Resource Guide

Associations Now

And we hope that generally the issue of broadband access will get greater awareness across the country and really globally as we see that both the economy and education are increasingly moving into web-based platforms and programs.

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Out of Bloom: Lessons from a Nonprofit’s Demise

Associations Now

A nonprofit startup called inBloom, backed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, was supposed to change the education landscape by embracing big data. But the organization, founded as the Shared Learning Collaborative in 2011 , ended up announcing its shutdown this week, after parents and educators raised privacy concerns.