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- Staying Relevant - tips for keeping your Funeral Consumers Alliance vibrant and up to date with contemporary consumers interests
- FTC Funeral Rule enforcement "sweeps" find more than 25 percent of mortuaries with major consumer protection rule violations
- They're our Members, not our Customers - how to stop hand-holding members and help them empower themselves
- Deathstyles of the Everyday and Middle Class - an editorial on how families can plan a meaningful funeral even in economic hard times
- Spread the Work Around: Building an Active Board
- You make me feel like a natural burial - interview with Mark Harris, author of Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial
- Minding your meeting - how to avoid a boring FCA annual meeting and bring in new attendees
- Legislative watch
- FCA and the Institute for Justice convince the state of Missouri to preserve the right to sell retail caskets, care for one's own dead
- FCA and consumers defeat Montana bill to put low-cost crematories out of business, strip citizens of the right to care for their own dead
- Review of Lasting Images, a DVD on alternative and creative funerals
- Recap of FCA national Biennial Conference
- Newly elected FCA Board of Directors
- Legislative watch
- Preneed fraud
- The Undertaker's Burden - humorous industry self-promotion
- Funerals go co-op - Peoples Memorial Association opens largest nonprofit, member-owned funeral business in the nation
- FCA affiliates (and all small nonprofits) need to complete IRS e-postcard yearly
- Accountability 101 - basic standards for cooperating funeral homes that serve FCA affiliates and members
- The Funeral Director's Guide to Consumer-Friendly Price Lists - an FCA manual for funeral homes
- Defending your last rights - FCA and Muslim advocacy group defend Nevadans' rights to private burials by religious congregations
- Public viewing without embalming - separating fact from fiction, and how to assert your right to decline embalming
- Federal Trade Commission issues four advisory opinions affecting funeral consumer rights
- Recap of 2008 FCA national biennial conference - highest attendance ever
- Welcome to the newest member of the federation, FCA of the Piedmont (North Carolina)
- Time's up - quirky hour-glass urns
- Legislative watch
- Report from the leading edge - FCA of Maryland attends workshop on family-directed, mortuary-free funerals
- How to build a better board - a manual for recruiting and retaining energetic volunteers with new ideas and commitment
- FCA announces Web 2.0 - an introduction to our new website and how to use it
- 5 Hospice Myths - Vanity Fair writer and blogger Judy Bachrach dispenses salty, funny, and useful advice on hospice care
- Billion-dollar preneed meltdown - National Prearranged Services goes belly-up; taken over by court receiver, leaving prepaid funeral consumers with questions
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