Liz Reyer: How To Overcome The Tendency To Back Away From Challenges

Here's the top things our readers told us the region should focus on to live up to its potential.

The Bellevue-based company is bolstering its senior leadership ranks after naming a new CEO last year.

Rowen, Georgia’s largest knowledge community, was established by visionary leaders to tackle global challenges in medicine, agriculture and the environment through collaboration and partnerships at a strategic location. Its developer, the Rowen Foundation, is crafting a unique environment on 2,000 acres in Gwinnett County to be home for the next generation of innovators.

Every June, the Columbus Arts Festival takes over the downtown riverfront with three days of visual art, live music, theater and dance, local food and drink and hands-on activities for everyone young and old. The welcome-to-summer festival enlivens downtown Columbus and offers a great excuse for everyone at the office to take a long lunch break, especially on opening day — Friday, June 7, 2024.

In the world we live in, it is rare to open a news media website or paper that does not have an article regarding workforce shortages. At SOCHE, we are working hard to connect employers with potential employees who have a variety of work experiences and education levels, including high school students and graduates, college students and graduates, veterans, mid-career professionals, reentered citizens, new Americans and people with disabilities.

When looking to take their charitable giving to the next level and aid future generations well into the next century, the wealthy of the region often turn to The Pittsburgh Foundation, one of the oldest community foundations in the U. S. When estate planning, the Foundation creates permanent endowments and invests them to grow in perpetuity while ensuring that the resulting funds will be spent in alignment with the donor’s wishes but with enough flexibility to meet needs and address problems as…