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Internet Association Opens Texas Office And Hires State Government Affairs Southern Region Director

InternetAssociation

Hines will also cover Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia, which include an additional 1,366,000 American internet sector jobs. The internet sector represents 10.1 percent of the U.S.

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Design Group Pushes Back on North Carolina’s HB2

Associations Now

More recently, Georgia and Mississippi passed similar measures. In Georgia, the governor vetoed the legislation; in Mississippi, the governor signed the bill earlier this week. The post Design Group Pushes Back on North Carolina’s HB2 appeared first on Associations Now.

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The Big Picture: If It Ain't Broke, Don't Fix It

The Big Picture

A big-picture view of issues and trends affecting associations - in Mississippi and nationally. Georgia’s new economic development and tourist promotion logo was unveiled at a tourism conference in Valdosta. And Georgia is now a classic marketing example for the "If it aint broke, dont fix it" textbook. I thought so.).

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Report: Goodwill Locations Hit By Credit-Card Breach

Associations Now

The duration of the attack is unclear, but there’s evidence that it may have begun about a year ago, Krebs reported.

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Lessons from Arizona: Meetings and Controversial Legislation

Associations Now

A number of other states—Georgia, Idaho, Missouri, Mississippi, and Ohio, to name a few— are considering similar legislation. Martin Luther King Jr. said more than 50 years ago, writing from a Birmingham, Alabama, jail cell, ‘Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.’”. Unfortunately, the issue goes beyond Arizona.

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Ahead of Give Local America, 7 trends in Giving Days

Beth Kanter

It revealed several interesting trends in both donor activity and sustainability: Nonprofits are bringing in new donors : All six of the Giving Days continue to attract new donors for their participating nonprofits.

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