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Preparing Your Association for AI

Association Analytics

For example, if you’re a marketing specialist, you might ask the tool to help compose tweets for podcast promotions or come up with a few subject lines for your emails. One great example of association’s rising to the occasion as thought leaders for their members is the COVID response. The results?

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Franchise Association Promises Lawsuit Over Seattle Minimum Wage Law

Associations Now

The International Franchise Association says a new minimum wage law in Seattle—raising wages to $15 per hour over time—unfairly targets its members by treating franchisees differently from other small businesses. ” I don’t know how I’m going to do it in Seattle. Examples In Action. It’s going to be very difficult.

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Canadian E-Waste Group Crosses Border With New Depots

Associations Now

The group is focusing its rollout on two of the country’s largest tech hotbeds—Seattle and Silicon Valley. In the midst of the refugee crisis of late 2015 and early 2016, for example, the organization played a central role in helping to bring recycled gadgets to those refugees—many of whom found themselves in Canada.

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Nonprofits, School Groups Pick up Fight Against Cyberbullying

Associations Now

In one example cited by the AP, the Seattle Council Parent Teacher Student Association has encouraged its district to increase education efforts focused on “soft skills.”. One example comes from director Paul Feig, who faced a litany of highly targeted criticism for helming the 2016 all-female Ghostbusters reboot.

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A People First Approach To Nonprofit AI Adoption

Beth Kanter

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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How Associations Are Embracing Apprenticeships

Associations Now

Check out a few examples of associations big and small offering such programs for their respective industries. It’s just the beginning,” said Amazon’s Ardine Williams, a vice president of human resources operations, in comments reported by The Seattle Times. Apprenticeships are growing in importance. This is just five.

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Monday Buzz: When It Comes to Salaries, How High Is Too High?

Associations Now

The debate continues after a Seattle company raises its minimum salary sky-high. Last week, Seattle-based credit-card-processing company Gravity Payments suddenly announced that it would raise its minimum salary to $70,000. Plus: John Oliver takes on so-called patent trolls. As you might expect, they were split on the issue.

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