Arlington Names Garcia as Director of Economic Development Department
"The City is booming and opportunity for business attraction is everywhere," Gus Garcia says. "Economic development is a team sport, and I can't wait to meet my new team." Garcia has been...more

Watts Professor Continues Longtime Efforts Toward Sustainable Community Development
"I was a toddler when I wrote the first edition." That's how Arizona State University professor Mark Roseland sums up Toward Sustainable Communities: Solutions for Citizens and Their Governments,...more

A Win for the Environment and the Economy in the Southwest
The effects of climate change are already being felt in the American Southwest, from the desertification of Utah's Great Salt Lake to the record-breaking extreme heat in Arizona and the dwindling...more

25 Years of Local Philanthropy: Community Foundation of Muscatine Celebrates
If you're born between 1981 and 1996, you're in the prime of your lifebut if you're a millennial, you're not in the prime of your life. That's according to Census Bureau data, which shows that...more

Muscatine'S Community Foundation Celebrates 25 Years
Foundation: Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine
The Community Foundation of Greater Muscatine will celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2024and it's getting a hefty gift to mark the occasion, the Quad-City Times reports. The foundation, which was...more

Impact Investing: Financial Altruism and Transformative Change
One of the hottest trends right now is called "impact investing," in which investors try to make a positive social or environmental impact on the world around them by putting their money where their...more

Kresge Foundation to Commemorate Its Centennial in 2024
Foundation: Kresge Foundation
In 1924, Sebastian Kresge founded the Kresge Foundation, "one of the oldest foundations in the United States, and the largest in Detroit," as the Detroit Free Press puts it. Today, the foundation...more

Doing Well by Doing Good
The World Economic Forum's annual list of the world's most ethical businesses is out, and this year's honorees are a bit more international than usual. This year's honorees hail from 10...more

City Council, Westerner Park and Rdp Issue Statements on Passing of Philanthropist and ...
One of Canada's most prominent business leaders has died at the age of 84. Jack Donald, who co-founded a Canadian oil and gas company with his wife in the 1950s, died Thursday in his sleep at his...more

State Grant to Help Pay for Rensselaer Falls Library Renovation Project
A public library in a small New York town is getting a facelift thanks to a $400,000 state grant. Rensselaer Falls Mayor Michael Hammond announced the grant Thursday, which will fund a...more