It’s been almost two years since Goodwill Industries of Northern Arizona (GINA) merged with its sister to the south, the Phoenix-based Goodwill of Central Arizona. We wanted to check in to see how the nonprofit is continuing its unique mission of turning thrift store shopping into workforce development for thousands in our region. In the […]

The bioscience sector, a continually growing part of the economy in northern Arizona, often brings our region national and even international acclaim. It is likely to happen again. One of our local bioscience powerhouses recently released a study that may begin to unravel the mystery around a condition causing paralysis in children. The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) […]

At last week’s ECoNA Advisory Council, dozens of our partners in economic growth heard from NAU Innovations, which is on a quest to increase community partnerships to accelerate commercialization of research being done at the university now and in the future. In fact, said William W. Aylor II, assistant vice president of research and innovation at NAU, […]

A recent report on the state of telecommuting shows that it’s continuing to have an outsized impact on the American workforce. According to the 2017 State of Telecommuting Report, regular telecommuting grew 115 percent in the past decade, nearly 10 times faster than the rest of the workforce, as technology made it easier for people to […]