Thai Chili 2 Go, the quick-casual, pick-up and delivery-driven restaurant concept featuring authentic and scratch-made Thai cuisine, recently opened its newest location in Maricopa — and already the store is No. 1 among the brand’s multiple locations valley wide. Meeting a need for quality, quick-casual dining has proven successful for Thai Chili 2 Go. With currently 15 … [More]
City, Chamber Partnership Helps Tempe High Schoolers Boost Professional Development
More than 30 local students spent their summer break gaining work experiencing and building professional skills thanks to the Career Ready Tempe program, which matches students with Tempe businesses for a six-week paid summer internship. This year, 18 businesses participated as internship host sites, which doubled last year’s number. This allowed for 31 student internships, … [More]
Greater Phoenix Chamber Announces 11 Finalists for Athena Awards
The Greater Phoenix Chamber announced the 11 women chosen as finalists for its prestigious 36th Annual ATHENA Awards, continuing its strong tradition of recognizing outstanding Valley businesswomen. The ATHENA Businesswoman of the Year Award recognizes a woman in the public and private sectors and highlights an upcoming leader in the Valley as an ATHENA Young Professional. … [More]
First-Time Homeownership Surges: Half of All Home Buyers Are Making Their First Purchase
Half of all home buyers are purchasing their first home, the highest share that Zillow has ever recorded. Zillow's 2023 Consumer Housing Trends Report finds that first-time buyers now make up 50% of all home buyers, up from 45% last year and a meaningful jump from 37% in 2021. The share of first-time buyers likely hasn't been this high since around 2010, when there was a … [More]
Valley Bank Rolls Out New Banking Services Specifically Designed for Nonprofits
Stearns Bank N.A. recently launched its Nonprofit Banking Solutions, a suite of customized banking services and financing options designed specifically to meet the unique needs of nonprofits. Stearns Bank's Nonprofit Banking Solutions was developed to benefit its fast-growing, diverse nonprofit customer base across the nation, inspired in collaboration with its third-party … [More]
Partnership Offers Training to 350,000 Healthcare Professionals amid Ongoing Staffing Shortages
Dignity Health Global Education, a premier workforce development solutions provider that enables healthcare organizations to upskill and retain top talent, announces its partnership with ShiftMed, the industry leading platform that allows healthcare professionals to work when and where they want, to help combat healthcare staffing shortages amid critically high industry … [More]
