By John Busbee
Photo by TheatreMidwest
One truth always seems to emerge from cultural chaos: creativity will find a way to adapt, overcome and continue to engage the public. Central Iowa is showing its mettle during these challenging times, and some wonderful offerings are arising, phoenix-like, from the pandemic fires.
The end of COVID-19 is not known, but the promise of vaccines helps. The economy is fighting back, including the creative economy. Many theatre companies remain publicly dormant, yet behind the scenes, each continues to pencil in plans for their future. When the time is right, they will emerge to again share their special brands of performances. Until then, each encourages their patrons and the public to stay in touch to be updated about progress toward that day when the curtains rise again.
Forty small business owners from across Iowa today joined 2,000 of their peers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia in calling on Congress to pass ad
Top 25 Most Influential Nonprofits in 2021 announced
BY BUSINESS RECORD STAFF
The United Way of Central Iowa has been voted by Business Record readers as the most influential nonprofit organization in Greater Des Moines.
The United Way of Central Iowa topped the first-ever list of Top 25 Most Influential Nonprofits, which appears in the 2021 Book of Lists.
The online survey of Business Record readers, which was conducted in the summer of 2020, asked participants which nonprofit they believe is the most influential and asked them to pick nine other nonprofits that they also perceived to be influential.
The votes were tallied and IP addresses were analyzed, much as we do for Best of Des Moines, to remove suspicious voting and obvious attempts to fraudulently influence rankings.
Business Record forms Racial Equity Advisory Board
Inaugural members named
Top row left to right: Almardi Abdalla, Josefina Lopez Valdivia, Tar Macias, Claudia Schabel
Bottom row left to right: Dwana Bradley, Renee Hardman, Bridget Cravens-Neely, Tej Dhawan
In response to long-overdue national conversations about racism, we asserted the following promise of our Business Record news team in a letter in June:
We will do everything we can to report on racial inequity in our community and state. We will not simplify what is complex. And we will empower underrepresented voices that often are silenced intentionally or unintentionally by people with privilege and power.