Meetings & EventsVisit Spokane will host The Big Meeting: Annual Meeting and Marketing Outlook Forum 2012 on Thursday, Sept. 6, from 7 to 9:30 a.m., at the Spokane Convention Center, 334 W. Spokane Falls Blvd. Berkeley Young, nationally travel

David H. Koch, executive vice president and part-owner of Koch Industries Inc., which claims to be one of America's largest privately held companies, earlier this year committed $10 million to the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute at The Mount Sinai in

At its annual meeting of more than 10,000 financial representatives and staff members last month, Milwaukee-based Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co. announced a new multiyear philanthropic program to fight childhood cancer. The effort, the a

The Corporation for National & Community Service (CNCS) has selected four experienced grant makers to receive $8 million intended to help organizations improve the lives of people in low-income communities.The Corporation for National and is a 5

Businesses can do well by doing good through product philanthropy, research from Indiana University concludes.The study, released in January by the Bloomington, Ind.-based university's School of Public and Environmental Affairs, examines the on

Good news for engineers on the salary front: On average, base salaries have risen 3 percent from last year.According to a new salary survey by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the American Society of Civil Engineers, the average

Construction employment declined by 1,000 in July even though the industry's unemployment rate fell to 12.3 percent, the lowest level since 2008, says an analysis of new federal data released earlier this month by the Associated General of America.

Following a rare tie base bid on a construction project planned on the Lewis-Clark State College campus in Lewiston, Idaho, Waynco Construction Inc., of Spokane Valley, apparently has lost the job to competing bidder Kenaston Corp., the college of