Three Iowa Small Businesses and a Non-Profit Recognized Nationally

By Lea Hensel, UNI Business and Community Services Happy National Small Business Week! Each year, the Small Business Administration takes the first week of May to celebrate the 26 million small businesses that strengthen our communities throughout America. And since it started in 1963, one of the highlights is awarding small...

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Creative Placemaking

By Amy Kuhlers, IASourceLink, with Zachary Mannheimer, Principal Community Planner with McClure Engineering Co. Creative placemaking isn’t a new concept, but it is still a notion that is unfamiliar to many community developers.  Per the National Endowment for the Arts, “In creative placemaking, partners from public, private, nonprofit and community sectors...

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Business Leadership Network Community Grant

In 2015, the UI College of Public Health through the Iowa Institute of Public Health Research and Policy inaugurated the Business Leadership Network (BLN) Community Grant Project to support projects, programs, and activities that build collaborations and support community well-being. The purpose of the BLN Community Grant is to foster collaboration...

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