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Monday Buzz: When It Comes to Salaries, How High Is Too High?

Associations Now

The debate continues after a Seattle company raises its minimum salary sky-high. Last week, Seattle-based credit-card-processing company Gravity Payments suddenly announced that it would raise its minimum salary to $70,000. Can a town run on social media? Plus: John Oliver takes on so-called patent trolls.

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City-Based Manufacturing Groups Promote Their Economic Might

Associations Now

A recent campaign by the trade group Made in NYC is seen as a model for other organizations looking to attract businesses—and favorable zoning rules. The very existence of UMA, a group of city-based manufacturing organizations, points to the growth of the trend. That’s an important element to this whole movement,” she says. “It

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Friday Buzz: New Media Lessons Associations Should Heed

Associations Now

Media is constantly changing—and that is definitely reflected in today’s new media space. At the 2014 Independent Sector Conference earlier this week in Seattle, media pros offered up a few ideas about how nonprofits can support new media initiatives to help get their message out. Cool as a Cucumber.

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3 Ways to Bring Your Work to Your Donors (Instead of Asking Them to Come to You)

Achieve

Nearly every nonprofit organization I deal with is careful to include an “experiential” touch point somewhere along the donor journey. If your organization does something similar, how often is it successful? (Be What’s an organization to do? The following blog first appeared on. Philanthropy News Digest. Sound familiar?

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Law Enforcement Group Addresses Current Events at Training Conference

Associations Now

In light of recent events between police and the community, the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives modified the focus of its 40th Anniversary Training Conference, taking place this week in Washington, DC. High-profile shootings in Dallas; Baton Rouge, La.; and Falcon Heights, Minn. and Falcon Heights, Minn.

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FCC to Accept Applications for Nonprofit FM Radio Stations (Eventually)

Associations Now

For OneAmerica, an immigrant advocacy organization based in Seattle, connecting with the people they are trying to serve can be a difficult task. Most of the folks that we reach out to that are refugee immigrants that are illiterate not only in English, but in their own languages,” said Rahwa Habte, an organizer for OneAmerica.

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To What End?

Beth Kanter

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. What is your organization aiming to accomplish? What are your organization’s capabilities for doing this? Flickr Photo By PetroleumJelliffe. To What End?

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