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Iowa Builders Group’s New Endowment Targets Industry Skills Gap

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A new endowment launched by Master Builders of Iowa will fund innovative solutions to close the industry’s skills gap and bring younger workers into the construction field. We are seeing more people retiring, and we just are not filling those positions as quickly as we necessarily need,” he said, according to Radio Iowa.

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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

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Results Direct and.orgCommunity released the first and most comprehensive report on mobile apps in the association community , which includes data on how associations and their members are using mobile apps. The Data Bunch This groundbreaking virtual event brings together exceptional minds in data management, analytics, and innovation.

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CompTIA Study Finds Tech Hubs Where You Wouldn’t Expect Them

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The Tech Town Index, a new report from the association, finds a surprising geographic diversity among tech hot spots, helped along by both booming college towns and maturing local tech economies. But even cities that couldn’t simply be excused as college towns, like Des Moines, Iowa, or Colorado Springs, Colorado, also did well on the list.

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Drug Store Group Launches Immunization Initiative

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This work will help fulfill the goals of an $800,000 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention grant that NACDS was awarded to examine innovative healthcare collaborations designed to demonstrate increased rates of pharmacy-based immunizations including influenza, pneumococcal, pertussis, and herpes zoster.

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Mo Rocca on Creativity, Comedy, and Obit Con vs Comic Con

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He’s the host and creator of My Grandmother’s Ravioli on the cooking channel host of the Henry Ford’s Innovation Nation on CBS and also published a book called Mobituaries: Great Lives Worth Reliving. Mike’s uncle is a salesman for Willowbrook in rural Iowa. I’m not a political reporter. Mo is a journalist. No Oh my god.

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Association Brain Food: 12.15.23

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This Guild report on online community trends put together by Michelle Goodall focuses on brands, but many of the trends pertain to associations and their communities too. PYMNTS reports that Tinder is promoting short-term subscriptions for Gen Z. Host: Volunteer Managers of Central Iowa Fri 12/15 at 4 p.m. Online communities.

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