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Bottled Water Group Backs Curbside Recycling Partnership
The Recycling Partnership, which already has the backing of a number of corporations and trade groups in setting…
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Parks Build Community: Campaign Gives Parks a Makeover
The National Recreation and Park Association’s Parks Build Community campaign is giving communities a chance to win their…
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Counseling Groups Partner to Fight Anti-LGBT Bill
The American Counseling Association has partnered with other organizations to oppose a Tennessee bill they say would permit…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
ACLU: FBI’s Smartphone Push Goes Beyond San Bernardino
The American Civil Liberties Union says that there are at least 63 cases—many involving Google—that share similarities with…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Internet Association Takes Time on Trans-Pacific Partnership
The Internet Association's support of the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership came slowly and conditionally—but not necessarily with the support…
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Global Spotlight: Audiology Group’s Sound Partnership
An international collaboration helps advance the speech-language pathology and audiology professions.
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Good Counsel: Play by the Rules
In conducting political activities in an election year, nonprofits must step carefully.
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Association Agenda: Tax-Deal Treasures
It was easy to miss, but buried in the massive $1.1 trillion end-of-year spending and tax deal that…
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Associations Score Wins in Budget Deal
It was easy to miss, but buried in the massive $1.1 trillion end-of-year spending and tax deal that…
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Small Business-Focused Online Lenders Launch Coalition
The rise of online lending brought forth by the Dodd-Frank Act is leading to new industry needs, and…
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Chinese Cybersecurity Group Taps “Great Firewall” Creator
A new cybersecurity group in China, to be led by a key creator of the country's censorship infrastructure,…
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Minority Newspaper Groups Raise Advertising Concerns
Two industry groups representing publishers that produce newspapers for minority groups say that federal agencies have largely ignored…
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Higher-Ed HR Group Rallies to Fight Overtime Rule
New regulations that would expand overtime pay would have serious unintended consequences for higher education, according to the…
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North Carolina LGBT Law Widely Rebuked
A quickly passed state law in North Carolina that effectively ends local anti-discrimination ordinances affecting the LGBT community…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
RIAA Sees “Market Distortions” in Streaming Success
The Recording Industry Association of America says that streaming music now represents the largest part of the music…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Retailers Raise Concerns Over Slow Chip Card Shift
Slowly but surely, retailers are beginning to accept EMV-enabled credit cards, which include built-in computer chips. But some…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Medical Groups Push Back on CDC Painkiller Guidelines
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is working to address an epidemic of opioid abuse, but the…
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Healthcare Group Tries ‘We the People’ Petition Approach
The American Health Information Management Association this week launched a new campaign designed to get people talking about…
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Psychiatric Association: Homosexuality Should Be Accepted
The World Psychiatric Association announced this week that it would discourage the use of gay conversion therapy and…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
E-Prescription Law Keeps Medical Associations Wary
I-STOP, a 2012 law taking effect later this month in New York, will penalize doctors who fail to…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
China Still Mulling Draft NGO Law
This month, Chinese authorities confirmed they are still reviewing comments on proposed legislation that would restrict activity of…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
As SeaWorld Drops Orcas, a Former Foe Becomes a Friend
When SeaWorld this week announced that it would retire its orca shows and stop breeding killer whales, the…
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AdvocacyArticleOver 5 years old
Medical Foundation Starts Campaign to Improve Diabetes Care
To assist patients with managing chronic diseases, the American Medical Group Association Foundation launched Together 2 Goal earlier…
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Controversial GMO Labeling Bill Stalls in Senate
A bill that would have put into a place a voluntary national labeling scheme for genetically-modified food failed…
