Arizona Foundation for Women (AFW), a not-for-profit agency that advocates for women’s causes in Arizona, graduated 29 Arizona women from SHE Leads!™, a women’s-centric leadership program dedicated to advancing women in the workplace. Throughout the past six months, SHE Leads!™ participants raised over $68,000 for non-profits focused on helping Arizona women. The cohort is … [More]
Carvana Catapults onto the Fortune 500 List in Only Eight Years, One of the Fastest Rises to Date
Carvana, the leading e-commerce platform for buying and selling used cars, today debuted on the Fortune 500® at no. 483; one of the fastest growing tech companies added to the prestigious list. Based on organic growth alone, only Amazon and Google made it to the Fortune 500 faster. Carvana is one of the youngest companies to make the 2021 Fortune 500 List, and its trajectory … [More]
12 News KPNX in Phoenix Wins 2021 Walter Cronkite Award for Exceptional Reporting on Systemic Racism
12 News, TEGNA Inc.’s NBC affiliate in Phoenix, Arizona, was honored today with a Walter Cronkite Award for reporting on systemic racism for “The Work is Hard and Not Done: Being Black in the Valley," which explores the Black experience and historical events in Arizona and includes interviews with mothers, faith leaders, neighbors, and 12 News anchors Caribe Devine, Rachel … [More]
Delta Dental of Arizona Earns Healthy Arizona Worksites Gold Award for Fifth Consecutive Year
For the fifth year in a row, Delta Dental of Arizona has earned the Healthy Arizona Worksites Program (HAWP) Gold Award for its implementation of evidence-based health initiatives to improve the well-being of their employees, employees’ families and communities. HAWP, a public health initiative developed through a partnership between the Arizona Department of Health Services … [More]
Glendale Chamber Leader Selected for Leadership Diversity Program
Robert W. Heidt Jr., Glendale Chamber of Commerce, President & CEO, has been selected by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives (ACCE) to participate in a unique leadership development opportunity with nine other chamber of commerce professionals from communities throughout the United States. The Chamber Leadership Diversity Program is an immersive executive … [More]
Laura Slawny of 10 to 1 Public Relations Named to Inaugural Class of Global Leadership Academy for Emerging PR and Marketing Leaders
10 to 1 Public Relations, a strategic communications firm serving clients in varied industries such as healthcare, technology, transportation, finance, and more, has announced that Laura Slawny has been accepted into a leadership development program for emerging PR and marketing professionals in IPREX, a premier global communications network of independent, partner agencies … [More]
Akos and Apricus Health Co-Founder Dr. Kishlay Anand Honored as Gold Stevie® Award Winner in 2021 American Business Awards®
Akos MD and Apricus Health, two innovative healthcare companies created by a group of prominent physicians, today announced their co-founder Dr. Kishlay Anand has been named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Entrepreneur of the Year, Health Products & Services category in The 19th Annual American Business Awards®. More than 3,800 nominations – a record number - from … [More]
Nikola Exec to Lead Global Standardization Project for Hydrogen Fueling Technologies
Nikola’s Director of Fuel Cell Vehicle Code and Standards Antonio Ruiz has been appointed to lead a three-year hydrogen fueling global standardization project for the International Standardization Organization’s Technical Committee 197 (ISO/TC 197). Ruiz was unanimously approved as Convener to work with an international core group of experts to implement the fueling protocol … [More]
Arizona Community Foundation and Donors Distribute Record $183M in 2020 Grants, Scholarships and Loans
The Arizona Community Foundation and its donors are pleased to announce grant, scholarship, and loan distributions for the calendar year. Between January 1 and December 31, 2020, a record total of $183,125,928 was awarded from funds of the Arizona Community Foundation and its six statewide Affiliates in Cochise, Flagstaff, the Gila Valley, Sedona, Yavapai County, and … [More]
Locally Owned Pizzeria Named to National 40/40 List
QSR Magazine has announced its annual 40/40 list of America’s hottest startup fast casuals in 2021 and locally-owned and operated fast-casual pizza concept, Fired Pie, is included as the only Arizona-based restaurant on the list. The magazine reports that the list includes “a look at the 40 fast-casual concepts with fewer than 40 locations that survived COVID-19 and are primed … [More]
Valley Tech Giant Earns Perfect Score on Corporate Equality Index for Third Consecutive Year
GoDaddy Inc., the company that empowers everyday entrepreneurs, received a 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's 2021 Corporate Equality Index (CEI), the nation's foremost benchmarking survey and report measuring corporate policies and practices related to LGBTQ workplace equality. "GoDaddy is proud to be recognized for the third year in a row in the Human Rights … [More]
Pro Builders Honors Camelot Homes with Coveted 2021 National Housing Quality Award
Judges for The 2021 National Housing Quality Award® (NHQA), sponsored by Pro Builder magazine, have named Camelot Homes the winner of a Bronze Award for the company’s commitment to the highest level of operational excellence and quality in the housing industry. Camelot was one of only four honorees this year and is the only Arizona-based company to be named to the list. “We … [More]
CO+HOOTS/HUUB and Startup Tucson Win National Innovation Competition
The U.S. Small Business Administration partnered with the National Science and Technology Council’s Lab-to-Market subcommittee to award $330,000 in prizes to the winners of the new Lab-to-Market (L2M) Inclusive Innovation Ecosystem Prize Competition. The L2M prize competition recognizes the most impactful organizations, programs and ideas that support the research and … [More]
35th Annual AZ MLK Virtual Celebration Honors Those Making Phoenix a Better Place
The 35th Annual AZ MLK Awards & Scholarship Celebration will honor Valley residents for their lifelong commitment to creating a compassionate and socially just community. The Arizona Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee and the Phoenix Human Relations Commission will recognize the Calvin C. Goode Lifetime Achievement honoree and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. … [More]
Banner Health CEO Named Among ‘100 Most Influential People in Healthcare’
For an eighth year, Banner Health President and CEO Peter Fine has been named among the ‘100 Most Influential People in Healthcare,’ just published by Modern Healthcare. Now in its nineteenth year, the program acknowledges and honors individuals who are deemed by their peers and the senior editors of Modern Healthcare to be the most influential individuals in the industry, … [More]
Phoenix Named a Top 10 Digital Cities Winner for Seventh Consecutive Year
The city of Phoenix has once again received national recognition as a Top 10 Digital Cities Survey winner among cities with populations of 500,000 or more. The 20th Annual survey organized by The Center for Digital Government (CDG) recognizes cities for using technology to tackle social challenges, enhance services, strengthen cybersecurity and more. This year’s Digital … [More]
City of Phoenix Wins PR Award for COVID-19 Response Efforts
The city of Phoenix recently was named the 2020 Gold Winner in the category of Best Government Response-Helping People and Businesses During COVID-19 by Public Relations World Awards (PRWA). This annual award recognizes outstanding work in agency and in-house public relations, corporate communications, and marketing and investor relations from around the world. Because of … [More]
Innovative Healthcare Co. Gets Recognition for Leading-Edge Health Information Technology
Equality Health, a whole-health delivery system, has been chosen as the recipient of Health Current’s 2020 Health IT Innovation Award for its leading-edge health information technology (IT) that improves care coordination and paves the way for value-based care transformation. This annual award presented by Health Current, the health information exchange (HIE) of Arizona, … [More]
