FROM THE KC CHAMBER'S PRESIDENT AND CEO
Pat yourselves on the back, Kansas City, for the most-excellent NFL Draft this past weekend!
Sincere congratulations to Sports Commission CEO Kathy Nelson, who juggled all the logistics and demands and set our town up for the national spotlight that shone on our town. She is, without a doubt, a regional treasure (and a member of the Chamber Board). Kudos to her staff as well. It was a nearly perfect weekend and the preparation involved was unimaginable.
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Overland Park, KAN. – Foulston Siefkin LLP partner Tara Eberline will become partner-in-charge for the firm’s Kansas City office effective June 1, 2023. Eberline has chaired the firm’s Kansas-City-area employment and labor/litigation practice since 2021. She succeeds Foulston trial lawyer Tony Rupp, who served as the office’s partner-in-charge since 2017. Both Eberline and Rupp will continue serving clients in their active practices.
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April may only have had 30 days, but it was still a “Great” month, especially for PNC Bank. This April PNC celebrated 19 years of its PNC Grow Up Great program. Launched in 2004, PNC Grow Up Great is built on the idea that education is a powerful means for economic and social mobility. PNC supports programs that help to prepare children from birth to age 5 for success in school and life.
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FROM THE KC CHAMBER'S PRESIDENT AND CEO
The community is invited to the first of several quarterly “Listening Sessions” with Kansas City, Missouri Chief of Police Stacey Graves on Thursday, May 11 from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at United Believers Community Church, 5600 East 112th Terrace, KCMO 64137.
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Small Business Celebration · Awards & Recognition · Business Awards
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce is excited to announce the 2023 Top 10 Small Businesses in the Small Business Celebration. These businesses are competing to be named Small Business of the Year and take home the prestigious Mr. K Award.
They are, in alphabetical order:
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Parkville, Mo.—April 20, 2023 — Park University students, faculty and staff were recognized for their exceptional scholarly efforts from the 2022-23 academic year as part of the University’s annual Honors Convocation held on April 19 on the flagship Parkville Campus. The University acknowledged outstanding students, faculty and staff with a variety of special awards, in addition to a number of departmental academic honors.
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Olathe, KAN (April 10, 2023): Cenetric Network Services is proud to announce that Brittany Fugate, our founder and president, has been notified that she is a national 2023 Enterprising Women of the Year Award honoree from Enterprising Women magazine. She will be honored at a gala on May 23, 2023, in Clearwater Beach Florida.
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