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55,000 people are going hungry in Polk County. 55,000! And it’s not just people in the areas you might expect. Kids in Ankeny and West Des Moines are waking up and going to school without …
Courtney Long is a Design Fellow at Iowa State University and works at the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. Her topic of creating urban agriculture was particularly interesting, in that, during a time of such …
Eric Burmeister has been with the Polk County Housing Trust Fund since 2010 and is currently the organization’s Executive Director. He has long been a proponent of affordable housing and through his work with the …
Ying Sa recently shared that Iowa is the 2nd fastest growing state for immigrant-owned businesses. Let that sink in for a second. Ying has been helping those immigrant owned businesses for years both through her …
Mike Beranek was a Disney American Teacher Award winner – in 2001 – and has also been a third grade teacher in West Des Moines for more than 20 years. Mike is also helping shape …
Dianne Bystrom is the director of the Carrie Chapman Catt Center for Women and Politics. Dianne tackled a topic that is very important to the Business Record – growing female leadership. In her talk, Bystrom …
Zachary Mannheimer founded and currently serves as the executive director for the Des Moines Social Club. We asked Zack to kick off our Ignite Des Moines Power Breakfast because quite frankly Zack has been helping …
Geoff Wood, founder of Gravitate, makes the case that despite the common perception, perhaps brain drain can in fact be good for Iowa.
Want more? The Business Record’s next Power Breakfast is titled “Ignite Des …
Rick Kozin, director for Polk County Health Department gave this speech to the Tomorrow Plan board in April. The speech argues that all policy is health policy, be it transportation, employment, housing or …
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