Delaware’s IT sector is growing continuously as new companies emerge, supported by a commitment to training young people in the field. Initiatives like Zip Code Wilmington, OpenBracket and training programs at Delaware Technical Community College ...
Call Amy Cowperthwait the accidental entrepreneur. Cowperthwait is a School of Nursing faculty member at the University of Delaware, and a few years ago she decided that the simulated patient training being given to medical ...
What if you could take the spare change from your coffee runs and automatically invest it towards your retirement? That’s the concept behind Acorns, an investment application with more than 5 million users. The app ...
Chambers of Commerce Bethany-Fenwick Area Chamber of Commerce www.thequietresorts.com This chamber promotes businesses in what is collectively known as “The Quiet Resorts.” Central Delaware Chamber of Commerce www.cdcc.net The chamber’s purpose is to advance economic development ...
Dora Cheatham has a pretty simple explanation for what Delaware’s chemistry sector was like pre-2000. “It used to be just DuPont,” says Cheatham, the operations manager for the Delaware Sustainable Chemistry Alliance. Not long after ...
In 1991, CB Research and Development was founded in a 2,000-square-foot facility to synthesize specialized chemical compounds for drug-makers. There were three employees. That same year, Incyte was founded in Palo Alto, California, to focus ...
Agriculture has long been Delaware’s single largest land use, so it’s no surprise that the sector is a strong focus for First State innovators. A potent mix of startups, researchers and established agribusiness companies works ...
Manufacturing has always been a driver of Delaware’s economy. But where the industry used to be dominated by a few major players such as DowDuPont and W.L. Gore, today’s manufacturing landscape looks a lot more ...
As Tower Hill School began preparing to celebrate its centennial in 2019, Head of School Bessie Speers offered teachers a chance to translate their passions into special programming that would enhance and complement the experiences ...
Educators have known about summer learning loss for years, but Catherine Lindroth, part of a new generation of Delaware education visionaries, developed a way to do something about it. She founded The Summer Learning Collaborative, ...
Why Innovative Nonprofits are Embracing Inbound Marketing - Over 1 million nonprofits in America are competing for shrinking grant dollars on a national and state level. Sustainability of the fittest is no long
What Is a “Unique Value Proposition” and How Does It Help You? - No matter how brilliant your marketing strategy is, it won’t be nearly as effective without a Unique Value Proposition (UVP) on which to anchor itse
Employee wellness is serious business - Today’s workers spend most of their time sitting behind desks. In the early 1960’s, almost half the jobs in private industry in the U.S. required
