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Romantic Restaurant’s New Expanded Dining Room to Include Social Distancing Measures

Marcellino Ristorante

Just in time for Mother’s Day, Marcellino Ristorante is reopening today to offer dinner take-out/curbside service with plans to reopen its newly remodeled dining room on Monday, May 11, after Arizona’s COVID-19 restrictions are lifted. The romantic restaurant’s dining room will be open for dinner service only seven nights per week: Monday through Thursday from 4 p.m. to 10 … [More]

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National Laundry Service App Expands to West Valley

WashClub Phoenix

WashClub Phoenix, a national app-based laundry service that launched in the Valley of the Sun last month, is expanding its mobile laundry service to the West Valley. The online, on-demand mobile laundry service company has started serving the areas of Avondale, Buckeye, El Mirage, Glendale, Goodyear, Litchfield Park, Peoria and Tolleson. "We've had an overwhelming … [More]

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New Pandemic Relief Program to Fuel Business Productivity During Shelter-in-Place

SalesHood

To help businesses survive and thrive during the COVID-19 disruption, San Francisco-based SalesHood today announced a Pandemic Relief Program that provides companies with its award-winning sales and business enablement platform free for 90 days. “COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work almost overnight,” said Elay Cohen, CEO and co-founder of SalesHood. “With business … [More]

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Indoor Waterparks Co. Donates to Nonprofit Helping Homeless Families

Family Promise of Greater Phoenix

Family Promise of Greater Phoenix, a nonprofit organization that rescues primarily first-time homeless families and their pets and helps them return to independence, received a donation of hundreds of linens from Great Wolf Lodge Arizona. This effort is part of Great Wolf Lodge’s company-wide Paw Pledge initiative, which focuses on health and safety of its guests and pack, … [More]

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COVID-19 Is Reshaping Corporate Culture

by Chuck Crumpton

The outbreak of COVID-19 is radically changing how many U.S. companies operate. Public safety measures have closed physical offices and made remote working the norm. Travel restrictions have heightened the importance of efficient technology, communication and collaboration. Executives have had to pivot quickly, reorganizing and rallying their workforce to push forward in an … [More]

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What Does a ‘Coronavirus Plateau’ Look Like?

by Randall Bolten

I just googled “coronavirus plateau” and got more than 13,000,000 hits. With that many hits, it must mean something! It does — this is where a visual presentation of the numbers truly shows what the mind sees when it hears a word. And what happened to “bending the curve” or “flattening the curve”? We’ve all seen images evoking those terms; for example: Words are barely … [More]

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People with Disabilities More Negatively Affected by Economic Impact of COVID-19

Global Disability Inclusion

A Global Disability Inclusion survey of over 500 participants on April 13, 2020 reveals that people with disabilities are being impacted by COVID-19 at a higher rate than those without a disability. 51% of people with a disability have either lost their jobs, been laid off or furloughed, or believe they will lose their job in the next 90 days compared to 28% of those without … [More]

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Emergency Coronavirus Loans Will Cripple Some Small Businesses

by Marc Levin

As America prepares to get back to work, will some people be left behind? The Small Business Administration (SBA) has adopted rules for emergency coronavirus loans that exclude otherwise eligible existing small businesses from relief solely because they are owned in part by individuals who have a criminal record. Given that at least nineteen million Americans have a felony … [More]

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Disaster Relief Related to Employee Benefit Plans

by Paul Yenerall

The Department of Labor and the Internal Revenue Service jointly have provided in a final rule that all group health plans, disability and other employee welfare benefit plans MUST disregard the period from March 1, 2020 until 60 days after the end of the declared National Emergency related to the COVID-19 outbreak or such other date as provided by the agencies in future … [More]

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Amid Crisis Relationship Between Boards and Management is Undergoing a Striking Shift

by Susan Keating

The relationship between boards and management is undergoing a striking shift as many companies take an enormous financial hit from the COVID-19 crisis. Leading the world’s largest organization of women board members, I have spoken with hundreds of corporate directors since the onset of the pandemic. These talks reveal new patterns in board oversight, important lessons … [More]

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