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COVID-19

May 11, 2020

3 Common job search mistakes in a downturn

As the number of unemployed workers continues to rise in today’s turbulent economy, searching for a job can be difficult. Navigate this new and uncharted job landscape with these tips and tricks from ICC’s Shawna Simcik.

May 8, 2020

Does my insurance cover loss of income from COVID-19?

Most business insurance policies will have at least three kinds of coverages to pay for the loss of business income: property, dependent property and civil authority. Whether there is coverage or not will depend on the language in each policy and the facts of a loss.

May 7, 2020

BOK Financial donates $100,000 to Colorado Restaurant Response

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.

May 7, 2020

The best things in business are free

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.

Apr 30, 2020

The legal and market forces impacting commercial real estate

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.

Apr 29, 2020

A CEOs’ top challenge: Getting your arms around required changes

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.

Apr 29, 2020

Why the world needs leaders right now

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.”

Apr 28, 2020

AppIt Ventures develops free Curbside tool for restaurants

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 manpow[...]

Apr 28, 2020

FMH Material Handling Solutions donates equipment to local food banks

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.

Apr 28, 2020

Denver startup studio launches initiative to donate masks to homeless shelters

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.

Apr 28, 2020

Weathering the COVID-19 Storm: Advice from local businesses

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.

Apr 28, 2020

Do we have too much faith in the Federal Reserve?

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 [...]