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Associations Now: Daily News
January 29, 2018

 

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GR Departments Shift Amid Shutdown Threats

In the wake of last week’s brief federal shutdown—and anticipating future ones—association government relations departments are planning ahead, and advocating for bills that don’t make support for their industries and employees contingent on the next continuing resolution. Read More

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The Organization Behind the Doomsday Clock

For more than 70 years, the iconic-but-dark Doomsday Clock has been the work of a nonprofit magazine with ties to the original Manhattan Project. Here’s how the clock came to light, and what it represents today. Read More

 

Free Refills

The industry group Water UK is putting its official support behind the Refill campaign, which launched to much success in the city of Bristol. The effort is meant to discourage the use of bottled water. Read More

Social Experiments

Refresh your social strategy by experimenting with new features from social platforms. Also: Seemingly harmless leadership habits may send the wrong message to employees. Read More

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Leadership Monday

 

The Challenge of Engaging the New Workforce

Problem One: How to define “workforce”? As a new study shows, employees want to be engaged, but workers are also increasingly untraditional. Read More

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Voluntary Standards

The National Association of Cannabis Businesses says its proposed packaging standards are a response to recent federal actions that threaten to criminalize an industry that has only recently been legalized at the state level. Read More

Committee Challenge

The National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators created a 50-member national committee to spend the year solving some of higher education’s most pressing problems. Read More

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“Training can be rescheduled, but it requires some complex choreography. Training sites must be scheduled months in advance. Commanders have other plans for the months ahead. So do our families.”

Maj. Gen. James Hoyer and retired Brig. Gen. Roy Robinson, the chairman and president of the National Guard Association of the United States, discussing the headaches last week’s government shutdown created for National Guard members. See Quote

 

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