Colorado Restaurant Response’s model is to re-hire and keep restaurant workers employed, preparing ready-to-eat, nutritious meals. Meals are distributed to food insecure families, unemployed service workers and frontline workers in partnership with the Denver Metro Emergency Food Network and Bondadosa.
While there’s some truth to the old adage that you can’t make money without spending money, there are still plenty of actions you can take that cost little to nothing while building and maintaining a rapport with your business partners.
Separately and combined, legal and market factors are impacting everybody. People that are involved in commercial real estate, in any capacity, need to navigate these factors to survive now and take advantage of opportunities in the future.
The way employees and employers are communicating, behaving, working and measuring results have changed rapidly over the last month. For CEOs, this presents an interesting challenge: What changes are you going to carry with you in the long term? It’s important for them to consider the following.
Whatever situation you find yourself and your organization in, here are few leadership tips for both the short-term and long-term to help navigate social distancing and business in the “new normal.”
Of the many impacts Colorado is experiencing due to coronavirus, the closure of dine-in restaurants (except for their pickup and delivery services) left a lot of local eateries wondering what to do next. While some restaurants already had delivery or pickup services in place, many did not have the infrastructure, money or manpower to implement such offerings. Which is where local software development company, AppIt Ventures, comes in.
In order to help Denver-area food banks move the large quanities of product being donated, John Faulkner, the president of FMH Material Handling Solutions and a forty-seven-year veteran of the material handling industry, is donating electric pallet jacks to these local food banks.
Saturn Five, a Denver-based startup studio, launched face2face, a new initiative to curb the spread of COVID-19 by getting surgical masks into the hands of people who can afford to buy them, as well as those who can’t. The initiative gives one surgical mask to a homeless shelter for every mask consumers purchase.
As any small business owner or entrepreneur knows, running a business has its ups and downs and requires tenacity, perseverance, patience and innovation on the path to continued success. Here is what several long-standing businesses have learned about keeping your business up and running during challenging times.
Currently, investors believe Federal Reserve intervention is working because the stock market has stabilized and is now at the higher end of a recent trading range. However, it is hard to believe the worst is over for the markets, considering the millions of unemployed Americans, no earnings guidance from U.S. companies for the foreseeable future and a massive drop in oil prices.
Marketers have had to completely rethink what they say, to whom, and how they say it. The stakes have never been greater. Here are several tips and tricks to help guide your marketing strategy amid the pandemic.
Colorado has officially moved from phase one (stay at home) of our COVID-19 Response to phase two (safer at home). What does the second phase look like? Which businesses will open? And when will everything return to normal?
Cows run from storms, buffalo's run towards the storm and through it. Are you a buffalo or a cow? The choice is yours and will make all the difference in the outcomes you experience.
The trajectory of COVID-19 remains uncertain around the world. Published spending cuts typically impact employee headcount and whether or not this pandemic results in the layoff of one or hundreds of individuals, how employees are treated during this time can pay long-term dividends to a company’s future brand and recruiting efforts when the market does recover.
When the good times are back, you will still be dealing with the same skills and inventory shortages and competing to win the best talent. Even in hard times, the best people are in demand. Don’t wait for an opening to reach out to them. You need to cultivate good talent over time.
Here are several questions and conversations that you should be having with your banker about your business, the impacts of COVID-19 and what the future holds.
Business contracts and financial agreements may have hidden risks triggered by today's pandemic. Curb those risks with a real-time review of your operating agreements and legal contracts. Here's where to start.
Still, the current coronavirus outbreak marked the first time many managers had to coordinate operations entirely online. Chances are that the transition wasn’t exactly seamless. But while these circumstances are atypical—and temporary—remote work is here to stay in some form or another.
Telehealth may be especially helpful as an initial option for medical advice related to COVID-19 and to help evaluate other possible health issues, as well as to assist the 20% of the U.S. population that lives in rural areas. To help people more effectively take advantage of this technology during the evolving COVID-19 situation, here are three tips to consider.
While the Golden-based Locavore Delivery didn’t have the pivot its business model, coronavirus did emphasize a new avenue for the pasture-raised meat delivery company to help farmers feeling the impact of the pandemic.
To help those encountering economic hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), President Trump and the U.S. Congress passed a $2 trillion stimulus package, known as the CARES Act. While the distribution timing of the direct payments may vary from area to area, the stimulus package takes effect the week of April 13, 2020.
Before making decisions to reduce salaries of exempt employees, ensure you are in compliance by reviewing both federal and state laws along with exempt employee’s minimum wage thresholds.
The Denver-based bank will make significant contributions to the Denver Health Foundation COVID-19 Urgent Response Fund, the Food Bank of the Rockies and the Denver Economic Development & Opportunity’s Small Business Relief Fund.
Here’s how MSU Denver’s maker community is combining its expertise, ingenuity and resources to design and manufacture much-needed personal protective equipment for Colorado’s front-line health care workers.
