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New Hampshire Looks to Kick-start Craft Beers With Marketing Nonprofit

Associations Now

Brew New Hampshire, a nonprofit with both industry and state support, hopes to draw more attention to its fast-growing craft beer industry—and perhaps sell a few more bottles in the process. That’s what a few major breweries and some beer industry trade groups hope to pull off with a new marketing-focused nonprofit.

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The Lesson of Llandudno

Virtual

That’s nothing new for me—I surf year-round in New Hampshire, sometimes trudging through snow to get to the beach. I went to the beach last week. This beach was a bit farther away from my usual surf spot.

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Helpfulness, Openness, and Generosity Are Spreadable

Smooth The Path

In rural New Hampshire, I have to imagine that there were not a lot of homes that fit these criteria. When I was six years old, my parents were trying to find a good house to rent, at a reasonable price, in a good school district. As my mom tells it, they finally found a house they very much wanted to live in.

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Association’s Name Change Focuses on Sight, Not Blindness

Associations Now

With an expanding mission and signs of public distrust around its longtime name, the New Hampshire Association for the Blind made the move this week to rename itself Future in Sight. The New Hampshire Association for the Blind doesn’t want to limit its mission because of its name.

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Reduce Member Anxiety with Clear Instructions

Smooth The Path

We spend some time each summer in a busy resort town in the white mountains of New Hampshire. On-season traffic clogs the narrow streets and overwhelms the traffic lights. Every day a few official traffic directors turn off the lights and take over. They get the lines of overheated cars and tourists moving again.

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How the Events Industry Is Coming Together Amid COVID-19

Associations Now

Similar efforts are also underway in New Hampshire and Rhode Island. The Greater Philadelphia Hotel Association’s COVID-19 Hospitality Workers Relief Fund provides gift cards for local grocery stores and pharmacies to hotel employees who have been furloughed or laid off.

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Keep Ahead of Higher Ed, the Professional Development Competition for Associations

WBT Systems

Associations have an advantage over higher education: because the leaders of your industry or profession are members of your association, you’re already positioned to lead collaborative efforts to develop new educational initiatives, such as stackable credentials.