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

Associations Now

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. That’s because of a legacy fund set up by the NFL and a host of Minnesota businesses, community groups, and foundations.

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Association Brain Food: 10.6.23

Reid All About it

. – Chapter Roundtable (Reston VA) Designed exclusively for professionals from component-based organizations in your area, our roundtables are not lectures but jam sessions where you can share, learn from your peers, and gain valuable feedback on your ongoing projects and goals. 1 CAE credit. More info/register.

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Angela Kisskeys Named Associations North President

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Kisskeys will be supported by Associations North Project Coordinator Steffanie Berg, who just celebrated her one-year anniversary at the organization. Our mission is to advance and serve associations in Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota. About Associations North.

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Innovating for Inclusion: How We Engaged a More Diverse Community

Association Success

Being innovative floats around as an ephemeral goal of all projects, and a mark of a successful enterprise. This project, crafted ‘by chapters for chapters,’ is about innovating in order to make connections, build community, and inspire a new generation along their professional journey. But what are we innovating for?

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Testing and Clear Objectives are Critical

Effective Database

In a nutshell, the state of Minnesota spent nearly $100 million for a new vehicle licensing and registration database, and may have to spend another $50 million to actually get it completed. And the project started over 10 years ago! I’m always fascinated by stories like this. The state audited the program to see what went wrong.

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See a Chapter Bright Spot? Propagate It!

Mariner Management

The Community Associations Institute (CAI) Minnesota chapter is one such group and the result was high fives from sponsors (they retained nearly all!) If your chapter bright spot requires a drastic change in behavior or departure from tradition, ask a few chapters to do a pilot project for you.

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

Associations Now

“It’s the big incidents like this that get people’s attention, but birds are hitting buildings and other structures in ones and twos and fives and tens pretty much every day,” Audubon Minnesota Conservation Program Manager Joanna Eckles said. “So For example, the U.S.