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A Closer Look: Hannah Inman

Hannah Inman has been fundraising for years, and she polished her environmental ethic with one of this area’s most respected land stewards, the Iowa Natural Heritage Foundation, where she was communications director. 

If you are …

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New coworking space opening in Des Moines area

Kirsten Anderson wanted a place to work that was conducive to planning workshops and completing requests for proposals but that also provided support and ideas to help her anti-harassment consulting business grow.

For the past …

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NOTEBOOK: Activist Dolores Huerta: Leave a legacy of justice

It’s not surprising that activist Dolores Huerta – who coined the term “sí, se puede,” or, loosely, “yes, we can” – had a lot of inspiring words to share with those gathered at the Chrysalis …

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NOTEBOOK: But … where are the salads?

I recently attended an event at one of the metro’s newest coworking coffee shops, Blue Bean in Ankeny, and met its owner, Carlos Rojas. The ultra-cool space, which opened in February, completely reimagined what had …

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NOTEBOOK: What’s the border between public relations and news?

A couple of weeks ago I had a chance to visit the Iowa AgriTech Accelerator for a media and public relations Q&A session with the accelerator’s startups. 

Tina Mowry Hadden, president of Mowry Strategies, and …

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NOTEBOOK: Workers leaving big cities for smaller ones, taking jobs with them

I was talking with Jackie Johansen, principal of Shattered Glass Development, about coworking space. She mentioned that it’s not just startups or one-person shops using the space but that there were corporate users as well. …

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Business Record 9-27-19

2019 Best of Des Moines

Focus: Best of Des Moines

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read:Can WeWork survive?

WeWork CEO Adam Neumann is out and Fast Company asks, “Can WeWork Survive?” Neumann, who remains non-executive chairman and We’s largest individual shareholder, told employees in an all-staff memo Tuesday that “our business has never been stronger, …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read:The shift in travel styles that did Thomas Cook in

The collapse of travel company Thomas Cook might have taken us all by surprise — along with the 600,000 people thought to be stranded when air operations ceased — but the changes to the travel …

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NOTEBOOK – One Good Read: Teen climate activist to world leaders: ‘How dare you!’

Teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg blistered heads of state at a United Nations summit for, in effect, robbing her generation of its future by failing to address climate change, Bloomberg reported. “You have stolen my dreams and …