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Taxi Associations Struggle With Dropping Medallion Prices

Associations Now

In New York City, an industry group is raising alarms, accusing the city’s taxi commission of making the problem worse by covering it up. At one point, a New York City taxi medallion cost more than $1 million, and they have regularly sold for six figures elsewhere.

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Association Brain Food Weekly: 5.12.17

Reid All About it

50% of technology projects fail—the technology moves forward, but the organization does not. Most technology projects have non-technological goals: raise more money, serve more program participants, or become more efficient. Learn a process for deciding how to identify what font is right for any given design project.

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Page One: 9 Ways CMA’s SEO Strategy Builds Brands

CMA Solutions

At CFO Consulting Partners, a financial accounting-advocacy firm with offices in Princeton, New Jersey and New York City, we delivered the Thought Leadership service with great success. The project involved fixing broken internal links. Within months, we produced several links to trade publications in their field.

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Cross-Border Collaboration: Sell Successfully Overseas by Learning the Local Needs

Plexus Consulting

The association, a professional society in the field of healthcare, was under a great deal of pressure from its board of directors to find additional sources of revenue, and the overseas marketplace seemed ripe with possibilities. The annual conference would rotate among North America, Asia and Europe.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth Kanter

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Several nonprofits have successfully interacted with, and more importantly, seen impact from, these engaged new audiences. In 2013 alone, the organization ran over 100 hours of programming in New York City.

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Membership Wakeup Call for Associations

Association Adviser

“This will require hiring staff that have stronger communication and project management skills,” she said. “The good news is that more association leaders understand that serving member/supplier needs, communicating effectively with members and running an efficient operation is key to achieving relevance and surviving.

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Coronavirus Updates for Association and Events Professionals – What You Need to Know

AssociationChat

Right now, take New York City. RESOURCE] COVID19 Tracker (source: The Atlantic) March 13, 2020 – The COVID Tracking Project collects information from 50 US states and the District of Columbia to provide the most comprehensive testing data we can collect for the novel coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2. So people say arbitrarily.