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CO+HOOTS Foundation receives $75,000 grant
CO+HOOTS Foundation, the nonprofit arm of CO+HOOTS downtown Phoenix coworking community, was awarded a $75,000 grant from the Phoenix Industrial Development Authority Community Development Fund. The IDA board of directors met Thursday, Feb. 12 for a public meeting in...
Ode to The Wapanada, the next great food craze
The Wapanada and why you should be eating it RIGHT NOW If it was legal, we would marry The Wapanada. The incredibly delicious waffle empanada concoction, which can only be found at Greater Than Coffee Shop at CO+HOOTS, was recently featured in the Downtown Phoenix...
Phoenix Startup Week happens Feb. 23-27
Register now to attend Phoenix Startup Week talks & workshops An entire week of startup and entrepreneurial love is almost here! Phoenix Startup Week powered by Chase will feature more than 130 free events -- talks, workshops, mastermind groups, mentoring sessions...
CO+HOOTS in the News!
From being named the 8th best coworking space in the nation to the CO+HOOTS Foundation's CO+EXCHANGES program to our Halloween extravaganza#Hootoween to our mastermind group Success Lab (among others), CO+HOOTS has received unprecedented amount of press -- print,...
CO+HOOTS hosts 75+ kids in 24-hour Code Camp
As part of codeday.org's CODE DAY, CO+HOOTS hosted our second 24-hour code event for kids. We had nearly 80 students participate representing 13 schools around the Valley: Faith North Montessori Brophy College Prep Basis Phoenix Carl Hayden Camelback HS Central HS...
Video: Matthew Manos, CO+HOOTS Foundation’s First CO+EXCHANGER
Matthew Manos gives half of his work for free, a pro bono-centered business model unlike any other and one that has earned him the recognition of one of "Seven Millennials Who Are Changing the World." So the Los Angeles-based designer was a perfect fit as our first...
CO+HOOTS announces world’s first global entrepreneur exchange program
Phoenix entrepreneurs have teamed with Phoenix City Councilman Daniel Valenzuela to announce the world’s first coworking and entrepreneur cultural exchange program rooted in pro bono service called CO+EXCHANGES. The CO+EXCHANGES program, which will operate via the...
CO+HOOTS Music Video: Members Coming “Home”
CO+HOOTS has always been about the community and not the physical space. It's what has made us successful as a coworking space these last four years; why people become members here and, more recently, why people have returned to become members after a short hiatus...
CO+HOOTS celebrates 4-year anniversary with takeover coworking event
CO+HOOTS recently celebrated its 4-year anniversary with a takeover coworking event at downtown Phoenix's hippest hotel, The Clarendon Hotel and Spa. More than 100 people from the community, members and non-members alike including Phoenix Mayor Greg Stanton and...
Meet new CO+HOOTS ninterns Claire Thomas and Josh Menigoz
CO+HOOTS ninterns (ninja interns, duh) make the world go 'round. It's in their job description. CO+HOOTS and eeko studio's summer ninterns, Claire Thomas and Josh Menigoz, poured their heart out just for you: CLAIRE THOMAS Age: 21 Hometown: Louisville Nickname:...
Meet CO+HOOTS Foundation Executive Director Kristin Romaine
What do you get when you combine a typhoon, a tornado and a genius? You get Albert Einstein. What if you add a bad case of work ethic and a little bit of crazy? You get Kristin Romaine. She is the brain and muscle behind the CO+HOOTS Foundation, CO+HOOTS' new...
CO+HOOTS member Mike Wolfson selected for Google Developer Experts Program
CO+HOOTS member Mike Wolfson, principle of Able Android, was recently selected to participate in the Google Developer Experts Program as an Android development expert. Wolfson joins just one other Android GDE in North America; and 11 others worldwide. "I am honored...