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At the close of 2021, Idaho Business Review (IBR) connected with the Idaho Women’s Business Center (IWBC) executive director, Diane Bevan, to hear her take on the issues women and women-owned businesses in Idaho are facing today, what opportunities are available to them in 2022 and how IWBC and its programs can ...

Affordable health care and insurance have long been talked about in Idaho, and Your Health Idaho has been a part of that conversation for years but has regained recent attention due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Your Health Idaho was established ...

As I mentioned in my previous article recapping some of the construction and development projects started or completed in 2021, the construction industry experienced some serious challenges last year. Through some major adversity — insane increases in commodity prices, dwindling inventory in supply chains and new COVID-19 requirements and precautions — projects managed to ...

Idaho Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers (INCAC) is a National Children’s Alliance (NCA) accredited 501 (c) (3) nonprofit funded primarily by NCA grants. Pending budget approval, Sonja Howerton, chapter director, and Amy McCormack, program director, have been meeting recently to ...

Director Brian Ness joined the Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) in 2009, traveling over 2,000 miles across the country from Michigan where he worked for 30 years at the Michigan Department of Transportation. He was familiar with Idaho, but did not ...

Following his previous work in United Way of Southern Idaho nonprofit, Kevin Bailey assumed the role of CEO for the Idaho Nonprofit Center this year. The organization is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, and Bailey shared some annual highlights, ...

As the leader of Ethos, a design and build and luxury remodeling and real estate business, Sarah Cunningham understands the challenges with Boise’s housing inventory that impact community development potential homebuyers. She is the founder of the Boise Bench Dwellers ...

In the following Q&A, Fernando Veloz offers his perspective as someone who works on the payer side of insurance claims and benefits and as a Hispanic individual. For Veloz, the stakeholders he works with are all saying the same thing, but the ...

How long did Boise Centre have to completely shut down due to the pandemic, and what did the process of reopening look like for you?  We were closed from mid-March 2020 through mid-July 2020. During this difficult time for our ...

As First Interstate’s southern Idaho market president, Jeff Huhn provides guidance to local business owners on many financial matters, including how to find funding for future business plans. In this Q&A, Huhn shares how Idaho’s small businesses can secure the necessary funds to take advantage of economic growth in the wake ...