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Weave a Safety Net—Find the Right Strategic Partners

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Kristine’s Story The goal of the Kitchen Cabinet was to talk about the great things restaurants do in Milwaukee. Pre-COVID, we had a program called the Milwaukee Kitchen Cabinet. There was no working partnership with industry and public health. Seeing a 10% increase in revenue and a 15% increase in member engagement.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 11.13.20

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If you’re seeing lots of movement in your industry—members losing jobs, employers hiring for new positions—consider hosting a virtual job fair. Quickly, organizations froze salaries and eliminated bonuses and benefits as they hedged against rapidly changing revenue forecasts. Now that the future is here, what’s next? Virtual job fairs.

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When It’s Time to Ask Members to Start Paying

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Should the priority be building support for the industry or raising revenue? Food-and-beverage trade group FaB Milwaukee tried a free-to-fee approach. One Milwaukee food-and-beverage group chose to do the former, but it recognized when the moment came to ask members to start paying their way.

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This Grassroots Campaign Is Hoppin’: Milwaukee’s Plan to Win PBR Back

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which makes Pabst Blue Ribbon, a beer with deep ties to Milwaukee—hasn’t had its headquarters in the city for years. But the brand has had its highs and lows, and despite its long-standing ties to Brew Town, Pabst hasn’t actually been located in Milwaukee since 1996. “Milwaukee made this beer what it is.

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Tax-Refund Theft: Associations on Alert for Falsified Returns

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After Intuit disabled part of its popular TurboTax software to prevent tax-return fraud, industry groups are keeping an eye out for fraud cases. The people who are in the business of perpetrating this kind of fraud collect Social Security numbers all over the place,” Hockenberry told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.