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Material Matters - September 2025

Material Matters - September 2025

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September 2025

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Registration Now Open for December Conferences

Join us this winter for two one-day events designed to bring BLD Retail and Associate Members together for learning, connection, and shared success.

 New! Mid-America Connection Conference
Tuesday, December 9
Embassy Suites Olathe, KS

Nebraska Connection Conference
Thursday, December 11
Embassy Suites La Vista, NE

Both events include targeted education, tabletop displays, meals, and time to connect with peers and partners. Registration is open for both attendees and sponsors.


Wisconsin Connection Conference registration opens mid-fall.

 

Your Membership Powers Learning and Community

Every conversation at a conference, every idea shared in a roundtable, and every insight from a class starts with your membership. Want to see how your support keeps our industry learning and growing together?

Risk Management Academy for BLD Members

Federated Insurance® invites current BLD members to attend a complimentary 2½-day Risk Management Academy, held November 4–6, 2025, at Federated’s Home Office in Owatonna, MN. This session is designed to help business owners across all industries build safer workplaces, reduce losses, and connect with risk management professionals.

 

What “One Big Beautiful Bill” Means for LBM Dealers

The recording of NLBMDA’s July 23 tax policy webinar is now available. In the session, leaders from NLBMDA and guest experts discussed key federal policy updates impacting LBM dealers, including swipe fee reform, new housing provisions, and H.R. 1, also known as “One Big Beautiful Bill.”

Articles & Publications

Women of LBM – Built to Lead

A kickoff to the 2025–2026 BLD Women of LBM Leadership Series 

Dena Cordova-Jack, Cordova-Jack Consulting

So… do you all just get together and talk about your husbands?


That’s an actual question I was asked, by more than one well-meaning gent, when we first launched the Women of LBM initiative a few years ago.


It was meant as a joke, of course. But like most jokes, there was a little truth (and a little discomfort) hiding in the punchline.

HR Question of the Month

Deductions for Company Equipment

From Federated Insurance

Question

We have an employee who recently lost some expensive company equipment. Can we deduct the cost of the equipment from the employee’s paycheck? The employee is nonexempt, and we are located in California.

 

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