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Starting Early: Super Bowl-Funded Community Projects Get Going Months Before Big Game

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In Minnesota, the Super Bowl Host Committee’s legacy fund, backed by money from the NFL and other donors, is helping to pay for community projects throughout the state. The Minneapolis-hosted Super Bowl LII is still nearly eight months away.

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Angela Kisskeys Named Associations North President

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MINNEAPOLIS ā€“ Associations North, the leading trade association for non-profit associations in the upper Midwest, announced today that Angela Kisskeys has been promoted to President of the organization. ā€œIā€™m June 15, 2022. ANGELA KISSKEYS NAMED ASSOCIATIONS NORTH PRESIDENT. About Associations North.

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Funding Initiative to Support Black-Owned Businesses Hits the Local Level

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The Association for Enterprise Opportunity, continuing its three-year Tapestry Project, has launched “action labs” in five cities to support black-owned businesses. This week, AEO officially launched the Tapestry Project Action Lab, which takes the larger project and applies it to businesses at the local level.

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After Mass Collision, Bird Conservation Group Discusses Bird-Friendly Building

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The state Audubon societies and local chapters of the National Audubon Society encourage this collaboration on community-building projects. You have to be open to all of those ways that you can make a difference on it, either voluntarily through the education or through the regulation,ā€ Eckles said.

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Accessibility for All: Toolkit Ensures Better Meetings For Every Attendee

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With that same idea in mind of providing people with lots of information and ensuring all attendees have the best onsite experience possible, earlier this week the Event Service Professionals Association (ESPA) introduced a new resource called ā€œProject Access: Accessible Meetings FAQs.ā€.

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Conference Circuit: 2014?s Events in Review

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At its conference, The Learning Resources Network emphasized the importance of ā€œmerging of old-school print-based marketing techniques with new-school media,ā€ and the American Academy of Religion ā€™s meeting workshops gave attendees lessons in academic blogging, social media in the classroom, and web-based class projects.

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Why 30 Nonprofits Chose to Be Hacked

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The three 24-hour hackathons were held in Chicago; Kansas City, Missouri; and Minneapolis-St. Next, the same panel of judges that selected the nonprofits will critique the projects and honor teams for best design, greatest functionality, and best in show during an awards ceremony later in the month.