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Iowa Builders Group’s New Endowment Targets Industry Skills Gap

Associations Now

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. This week, Master Builders of Iowa announced the launch of MBI Works, a $5 million endowment to fund new resources for career education and workforce recruitment.

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Association Brain Food: 12.15.23

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They describe the seven steps of starting a successful association mentoring program from pre-evaluation and research to planning, design, recruitment, matching, training, support, and evaluation. Uncover the meaningful insights behind your collected data and leverage them to refine your eLearning strategies effectively.

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Association Brain Food: 12.8.23

Reid All About it

Mark Lowry at Association Analytics shares helpful member retention strategies. The Data Bunch will cover must-have insights and strategies from data governance to analytics. Explore practical tips and strategies to initiate your data hygiene journey. Bulletin describes how a member app helps you nurture member engagement.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 6.18.21

Reid All About it

Hear about how associations need to shift their mindset on recruiting, training and education; workforce trends that will shape the future labor market; and why retaining employees is more important than ever?. Effective Strategies for Leveraging Local Media to Advance Advocacy Efforts. Kim, Principal of Butterfly Strategies.

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Opening the Door to Government Members

Associations Now

Some groups are reexamining their membership strategies to bring down that barrier. Professionals who work in government remain critical for many associations, says Cindy Adams, president and CEO of the Iowa Society of CPAs. Complaints about the barrier to entry have been echoing around the Iowa statehouse.

Iowa 40
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Serving Your Professional Community for Impact

Association Adviser

Recruited by one of my customers, I was lured into the publishing industry to work on college textbooks for computer science and management information systems. I worked for a company in Boston for years before transferring to another publishing company in Iowa, which was short-lived because of mismatched expectations.

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Say Cheese: Instagram at Meetings

Associations Now

If you’re just introducing Instagram at your meeting, or if your attendees are unfamiliar with the tool, you’ll want to keep your strategy simple at the start. Take some advice from the Association of Donor Recruitment Professionals. Keep It Simple. The winning prize: complimentary registration to ASLA’s 2014 meeting.

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