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Registration is underway for the Greater Des Moines Partnership’s Small Business Success Summit. This year’s summit is scheduled virtually for Nov. 5-6. It will feature three keynote speakers and 12 breakout sessions focused on a …
The U.S. Small Business Administration announced recently that Iowa is among 48 state international trade agencies that successfully competed for $19 million in grants to support export growth among small businesses through SBA’s competitive State Trade …
Jennifer Chittenden, executive director of the Des Moines Downtown Chamber of Commerce, will be leaving that role next month after accepting another opportunity, the chamber’s board announced. In a letter to its members, the board leadership …
Projects in 21 communities have been awarded grants totaling $8.8 million through the Community Development Block Grant Program, officials with the Iowa Economic Development Authority announced today. The projects range from water and sewer improvements …
The Iowa Economic Development Authority Board today approved tax benefits for an Ankney company that makes food products, including mayonnaise, salad dressing and barbecue sauces. Mrs. Clark’s Foods was awarded $165,000 in investment tax credits …
Iowa’s businesses added 5,300 jobs in August, helping to push the state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate down to 6%, Iowa Workforce Development reported today. In August 2019, Iowa’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 2.8%; in …
Iowa’s rural economy dipped slightly in September behind a slumping farmland price index, according to the Creighton University Rural Main Street Index released Thursday. The September index for Iowa fell to 46.5, down from 46.8 in August, …
The Iowa Center is launching two new financial literacy programs to address a problem presented by the pandemic: Many small business owners, especially people of color, were denied financial assistance because they lacked the necessary …
Mineck: Disruption brings a magnifying glass to the deep problems at work in communities
Mineck’s comments reminded me of the idea of wicked problems. A “wicked problem,” for those unfamiliar, is defined by the Stanford …
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