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Key Issue: Education and Workforce
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Are you interested in teaming up with the National Association of Manufacturers to build your own skilled workforce and help improve the public perception of the manufacturing industry (all at no cost to your company)? Attend an info session as Dream It Do It Colorado onboards in the state. As the program convener, COBRT and Dream It Do It will hold
Manufacturers Info Sessions on
March 9 in Greeley and
Colorado Springs and on March 10 in
Grand Junction.
Check out the podcast from Monday's Connect and Collaborate radio and register here for the information sessions. Please share this info with manufacturers you know.
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Brave Leaders & Best Practices
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The University of Denver and the Colorado Business Roundtable recognize Colorado's finest leaders who exemplify courage, risk-taking, commitment and taking a stand. These leaders have stepped up and made strong, courageous decisions that kept organizations, workers, and companies alive and vibrant.
Please join us as we honor COBRT's distinguished Brave Leaders with awards, a reception and a p
anel discussion featuring:
Chancellor Rebecca Chopp, PhD, University of Denver;
Mayor Michael Hancock, City of Denver; and
Colorado State Treasurer Walker Stapleton.
Thursday, March 17, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM (MDT)
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Connect and Collaborate Radio
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On Connect and Collaborate, Voice of the Colorado Business Roundtable, our esteemed lineup of guest hosts discuss best leadership and business practices. Today, we had in-studio Paul Archer with Simplify Colorado Sales Tax. Tomorrow, Peter Moore from Vital for Colorado interviews Glendale Mayor Mike Dunafon.
Next week's line-up includes CU Denver Business School Shadow Days Program (Mar 7); Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies/DORA (Mar 8); Larry Nelson, co-founder of w3w3 Media Network (Mar 9); Jon Haubert and guests from Water Sage, an online map-based water rights search and analysis platform (Mar 10); and Mark Alpert and Jamie Trafficanda on STEM legislation and a preview of STEM day at the Capitol (Mar 11).
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Key Issue: Education and Workforce
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Scott Laband, President of Colorado Succeeds, provides his perspective: "
Colorado policymakers and educators have an important decision to make. We can continue to fall victim to a talent gap, or we can embrace the opportunity and begin to equip our students with the 21st century skills they need to succeed in the modern workforce.
The business community urges the latter..
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Key Issue: Education and Workforce
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Last week, Foundation for Excellence in Education reported that HB 1289 was filed. The bipartisan bill would "establish a pilot program of incentives for high schools to provide a variety of career and vocational training courses to students. The bill would establish a $1 million annual appropriation that begins in fiscal year 2017-2018 and continue for two years. Participating school districts or charter schools would receive $1,000 for each student who earns an industry certification in high-demand fields and that articulate into college credit. The foundation's website is packed with info about each state's reform efforts.
Visit their website
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Key Issue: Energy and Environment
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Key Issue: Health and Retirement
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For its Dell Children's Medical Center in Austin, athenahealth partnered with Denver's The Art Connection and New Angle Consulting and built colorful and interactive installations in the hospital's Healing Garden. Stations with names such as Butterfly Migration, Drum Session, and Regatta were created right on hospital grounds for patients and their siblings to enjoy. (Siblings are not allowed in the hospital to protect against infection.) Inside, young patients were given creativity kits and superhero capes lovingly made by athenahealth volunteers. Designed to inspire creative expression and peaceful meditation, these changes are just the latest example of the trend toward using art for health and healing.
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Key Issue: Economic Development
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Key Issue: Economic Development
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Key Issue: Energy and Environment
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Connect and Collaborate
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This week, NSBA registered support of the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2015 and urged Senate leadership to bring the bill to the Senate floor for immediate consideration.
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House Talks Innovation Programs
This week, the House Committee on Small Business held a hearing on the highly-successful SBIR and STTR programs and their pending reauthorization. Read more
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BRT
Encouraged by House Ways and Means Committee's Work on Tax Reform
Business Roundtable credited the House Ways and Means Committee for working to repair the broken U.S. tax system, renewing BRT's call for a lower corporate tax rate and modern international tax system. "The urgency of tax reform cannot be overstated as foreign countries..." Read more
EU's Tax Investigations Targeting U.S.-based Companies, BRT President Writes for CNBC.com
The European Union is using state aid investigations to discriminate against U.S. companies,
BRT President John Engler writes in a new CNBC.com column, "EU has gone too far targeting US
companies." Through these investigations, he argued, the EU is overriding settled international
law and the laws of its own member countries to impose retroactive tax increases on U.S.
companies operating in Europe... Read more
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