ECoNA Blog
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, […]
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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 […]
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Quality Connections is a unique non-profit in Flagstaff that uses a commercial office supply business (QCoffice) to provide its clients with work experience to finance its programs that help individuals with disabilities become independent, productive members of our community. We talked recently with co-founder Armando Bernasconi about the roots of the organization, competing in the […]
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Last month, Flo Spyrow was named the President & CEO of Northern Arizona Healthcare after serving as the interim leader NAH for the past six months. We caught up with her recently and learned more about her background, what brought her to Flagstaff and how she transformed a nursing career into a law degree and […]
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Our friends at the Sustainable Economic Development Initiative (SEDI) have a great program to assist small businesses. For more than four years, SEDI’s Dollars for Dreams business micro-loan program has been helping entrepreneurs make their dreams come true and created new jobs in our community. They have money available to lend to northern Arizona start-ups, […]
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