GIVING BACK UScellular Delivers Donation to the Community Garden Coalition UScellular has delivered a nearly $600 gift card to Community Garden Coalition, located at 711 Claudell Lane in Columbia. The nonprofit volunteer group provides support, supplies, and garden plots to community gardeners, seeking especially to help lower-income individuals, the elderly, people with disabilities, children, and […]
Regional Economic Development Inc., known to most people as REDI, is a local collaboration that has worked to benefit the Columbia and Boone County community since its founding in 1988. Yet, many people still ask — what does REDI do? It’s a complicated question to answer. REDI works with a long list of partners and
Giving Back Boys and Girls Club of Columbia Receives Local Support To aid in the Boys and Girls Club of Columbia’s efforts to meet the increased needs of the community during the COVID-19 pandemic, Miller, Bales & Company held a matching campaign during the month of September to raise funds and awareness for the organization.
Attract. Expand. Grow. These are the strategic goals of Regional Economic Development Inc. REDI introduced itself to the community when the private–public partnership was incorporated on March 14, 1988. Since then, REDI has continued to develop the local economy by assisting new and existing major employers as well as entrepreneurs and startups. REDI is a
Among the more than 6 million registered domain names on the Internet, some are stinkers. Wouldn’t it be great to take some of the discarded sites and turn them into functioning businesses? The Domain Purge, held over the weekend of April 17, was designed to connect bad websites with good brainstorming: Participants tried to play
Update: See Dave Griggs get roasted at the Alzheimer’s Association annual roast May 29 at the Holiday Inn Executive Center. Name: David R. (Dave) Griggs Title and company/organization: Owner/president, Dave Griggs’ Flooring America Age: 68 Years lived in Columbia/mid-Missouri: Columbia native Original hometown: Columbia Education: Graduate of Hickman High School, attended the University of Missouri
1. You’re a man of many ventures. Tell us what you have on your plate at the moment. My current project is The Innovation REDI Project, a global model of innovation, entrepreneurship and economic development. The developed model binds educational institutions (secondary, higher) to economic development through entrepreneurship. Over the past few months, I’ve been
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Innovation. It’s a broad topic that encapsulates technology, entrepreneurship and bravery. It’s easy to say you exude an innovative mind, but what about execution? For many people, execution of an innovative project is exactly where an idea stops. Technology is used two-fold in innovation. Machines, software and digital advancements are used to create projects, make
