Child Care Task Force Releases Recommendations Addressing Affordable Child Care in Larimer County
Engagement from business, community and early childhood leaders is key The Talent 2.0 Child Care Task Force is recommending seven ways to address the lack of affordable child care, which has been deemed a challenge employers face when attracting and retaining workers. These recommendations and more are in the report “Recommendations to Address the Need […]
Transportation Commission Approves Additional $310M for North I-25!
The Colorado Transportation Commission voted Thursday morning to preliminarily commit up to $310M in available funding to deliver the full and necessary funding to build the I-25 North Express Lanes between Fort Collins and Loveland. The express lanes between SH 14 in Fort Collins to SH 402 south of Loveland are a part of the […]
2019 NCP Annual Summit Recap and Resources
The Fort Collins Area Chamber of Commerce hosted the second annual Northern Colorado Prospers (NCP) Summit during the morning of April 10 at the Lory Student Center on the Colorado State University Campus. More than 60 NCP investors attended the event to receive updates on the NCP four initiatives, which included the reveal of the new talent portal WorkInNorthernColorado.com. This […]
Fortune: These Are the Top Skills Businesses and Job Recruiters Are Looking for Most in 2019
LinkedIn just published its annual “Top Skills” list, which analyzes data across the professional social network in order to rank which skills are both in high-demand and low-supply. The Microsoft-owned brand happens to be releasing the news at the turn of the new year as employees often start the year with resolutions to learn new […]
Business News Daily: 4 Ways to Be a Better Boss to Working Parents
Working parents can get it done. They can get things done at work with kids to take care of on top of it. Packing lunches, school drop-offs and pickups, and sports practices to a non-parent seems nearly impossible to accomplish on their own, let alone with a full-time job to worry about. One place where […]
Advanced Energy Partnering with FRCC to Create New Center for Integrated Manufacturing
Lab Development Funding Provided to Support the Much-Needed Addition of Industry Professionals to the Local Workforce FORT COLLINS, Colo., Dec. 12, 2018— Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS), a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement, and control solutions and Front Range Community College (FRCC), Colorado’s largest community college, today announced a partnership to help fund the […]
Bringing Business Home Campaign Launched
Under the ‘Bold Voice of Business’ goal of Northern Colorado Prospers is a strategy to ‘maintain communications with the public that emphasizes the important of business to a strong quality of life.’ To that end, the Chamber has launched Bringing Business Home . The focus of this public campaign is to create a greater awareness and understanding of the […]
Fort Collins Named One of the 2018 10 Best Places to Raise a Family in the U.S.
Fort Collins has been named one of the 2018 10 Best Places to Raise a Family by Livability.com. To determine the 10 Best Places to Raise a Family, Livability’s data scientists first analyzed all U.S. cities with a population between 20,000 and 300,000 and weeded out places with high childcare costs and low Great Schools […]
October 2018 NCP Quarterly Update – Recap & Resources
The Chamber hosted the Northern Colorado Prospers (NCP) Quarterly Update during the morning of October 10 at the Ranch Bar & Grill at the Budweiser Events Center. More than 50 investors were in attendance to receive an update on progress being made on the region’s key challenges: transportation, labor force, business environment and retaining key employees. The morning included […]
Transportation Leaders Help Break Ground on I-25 North Express Lanes
Transportation leaders, elected officials and the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) broke ground Monday morning on the I-25 North Express Lanes: Johnstown to Fort Collins project. The project, estimated to conclude in early 2022, will: Increase highway capacity by adding an Express Lane in both directions Replace aging bridges and widen others Improve bus service […]
