- Technicians For Sustainability: The Tucson business was recognized for being among companies creating the most positive environmental impact based on an independent, comprehensive assessment administered by the nonprofit B Lab. Technicians For Sustainability was honored in the Best for the Environment list, which includes businesses that earned an Environment score in the top 10 percent of more than 2,100 Certified B Corporations on the B Impact Assessment. The full assessment measures a companyâs impact on its workers, community, customers and the environment. Technicians For Sustainability provides businesses, public institutions and residential homeowners with solar energy systems, helping to power their community with solar.
- Flinn-Brown Fellows: Four Southern Arizonans have been named 2017 Flinn-Brown Fellows. Zachary Brooks, special projects for the University of Arizonaâs Office of Global Initiatives; Mike Holmes, operations program manager for Pima County Attractions and Tourism; JP Martin, executive director of Global Chamber-Tucson; and Anita Simons, administrative law judge for the Arizona Department of Transportation Executive Hearing Office will take part in the Flinn-Brown Civic Leadership Academy. The Fellows share a commitment to state-level public service and leadership. The Flinn-Brown network functions as an ongoing personal and professional support system for the Fellows as they pursue roles as state-level elected officials, state-agency executives, policy advisors or members of state boards or commissions.
- Social Venture Partners Tucson: SVP Tucson has selected 17 nonprofits to participate in a two-month long communication skills building program, dubbed Fast Pitch. The organizations and their leaders will learn to more powerfully and succinctly communicate their stories, while connecting them to the leaders of the business and funding communities who can help grow their organizations. They are the Abbie School; Coyote TaskForce; Earn to Learn; GAP Ministries, Culinary Training Program; Higher Ground a Resource Center; Homicide Survivors, Inc.; Jewish Family and Childrenâs Services of Southern Arizona, Project Safe Place; Junior Achievement of Arizona; Linkages; Literacy Connects, Stories that Soar!; Old Pueblo Community Services; St. Lukeâs Home; Sunnyside Unified School District, Teenage Parent Program; The Florence Project; The Symphony Womenâs Association, Tucson Youth Music Center; Watershed Management Group, River Run Network; and Youth On Their Own. Fast Pitch finalists will compete for more than $40,000 in grants and prizes at the Fast Pitch Showcase in November.
Business awards earned in Southern Arizona
Business awards earned in Southern Arizona
Sean Anderson, left, and Frank Secret, of Technicians for Sustainability, install solar modules on the roof of a Tucson home.
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