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  The Girl Scouts Women of Distinction are committed to increasing the impact of the Girl Scouts by volunteering and financial giving.  Leaders are chosen by their dedication of service and leadership.  This year’s Girl Scouts Women of Distinction is Faye Wilson Tate. Fay Wilson Tate is the vice president and director for Global Diversity Read More »...

  Daniel Ogden is chair of both the National District Export Council (DEC), and the National DEC Trade Policy Committee. He is a former vice-chair of the North Texas DEC and has been involved in DEC since 2005.  He is an attorney specializing in international exporting which includes intellectual property and export compliance. The National Read More »...

Lew Cramer, president and chief executive officer of the World Trade Center Utahknows that if you are not internationally minded, you will go out of business.  Lew Cramer knows this from his extensive background in exporting which includes; Director general of the U.S. Commercial Service; directing the activities of 1,400 commercial officers at over 150 embassies Read More »...

  Rotary International’s motto is, “Rotary, Humanity in Motion.”  They are a collective of service minded individuals helping up their communities and reaching out to those in need across the globe.  The Rotarians differentiate themselves from other organizations by methodically using their business acumen to accomplish their goals. One such Rotarian is Ron Burton.  Burton Read More »...

The Export University program in Hawaii gets small businesses up and going out of their comfort zone and home bias.  Home bias is only doing business with people in your market area or next door.  Export University takes a business into new markets by diversifying customers and making businesses more competitive.  Export University is open Read More »...

Technology solutions company iGivefirst facilitates donations to charitable organizations.  Sharif Youssef is the founder and CEO, of Giving Tools, Inc.  iGivefirst is a tool of Giving Tools and a for-profit professional fundraising company focused on philanthropy.  They are based in Denver, Colorado and have a national reach. Using technology solutions reduces fundraising costs for nonprofits.  Read More »...

        Architect Eve Blossom’s design thinking in the business world creates job stability. For a couple years after graduation she worked but felt something was missing, which led to traveling and working abroad. The Long Journey of Starting Lulan Artisans Eve Blossom moved to Hanoi, Vietnam in 1995, to renovate French villas, Read More »...

If you’ve ever started a business, been involved with a Startup, or know somebody who has; a business plan in a static state is good for a matter of days. It is not that the process of planning is bad. It is that fact that things in the business world change at warp speed. I Read More »...

Following the announcement on Monday of the Colorado Innovation Network, Mayor Hancock and Gov. Hickenlooper will be traveling to Silicon Valley to connect and collaborate.  They will be engaging business and academic leaders on the topics of job creation, innovation, and economic development, and will be expanding connections with institutions such as Stanford University and Plug Read More »...

Bruce DeBoskey is a Colorado-based Philanthropic Advisor, helping businesses to develop philanthropic strategies. He gave up a career as a successful trial lawyer for 25 years to focus on giving. As Bruce describes, he was going to battle each day for things that only mattered to the people involved, until he decided he wanted to Read More »...