Young Mason Partak, with help from his Mom, Kathy, are using technology in the form of GoFundMe to outfit the kitchen of his elementary school so that kids can learn to cook and students can have hot meals to fuel their brains and bodies. What a great example of STEM education in action. Continue reading
Innovators: Thank a Teacher Today
As innovators, we make progress every day to develop new technologies and services that will support and sustain life, feed the world, and fuel it. We develop new apps to connect, to inform and to diagnose. We’ve build a world beyond what our grandparents or parents ever imagined. What we do matters. More importantly, this next generation will give life to new innovations, some we can only yet imagine.Continue reading
Picking Winners and Losers
This week, I received an opinion piece via email from a nonprofit institute that claims to “stand on principle, not politics”. Continue reading
Looking for the Leaders Who Will Shape our Future
Over the last week, meeting after meeting focused on innovation, technology, and future directions for growth. Times of change call for connected and coordinated leadership. Where will we find ours?Continue reading
A framework for future growth
What will it take to take the Arizona biotech industry to the next level in the coming decade?Continue reading
Supporting Entrepreneurship at AZEC12
For the 7th consecutive year, CorePurpose supports the Opportunity Through Entrepreneurship Foundation in presenting AZEC12.Continue reading
A Few Key Maxims
Marie G. Carmichael was a pretty wise lady. She lived to see 100 Christmases and 17 Presidents. She loved politics too. I wonder what she would say if she heard the news today?Continue reading
Why this? Why now? About the CorePurpose Blog
Now more than ever, America needs the creativity, innovation, and leadership that small businesses provide. That’s why I write the CorePurpose Blog… Joan Koerber-WalkerContinue reading
Highlights from #BeOriginal
In June of 2009, I had an idea that it would be fun to share original ideas with friends in a place where we could all find them. I blogged it as Why #BeOriginal to let my friends know.Continue reading
Honor Our Innovators and Nominate Them for Our Nation’s Highest Honor
Innovation is a key characteristic of our nation and critical to our current and future global leadership. These days it is rare to attend a speech or symposium where innovation does not figure prominently in the conversation. It’s so easy to talk about innovation. It’s not so easy to actually develop a new product or service, commercialize it and gain the acceptance that defines the transition from invention to innovation.
Recognizing these leaders and honoring their efforts and achievements is the National Medal of Technology and Innovation.Continue reading