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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

Source Link

In 2017, we shared 3 ways to empower your entrepreneurial community. Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. Consider how you can partner with trusted organizations in your community to reach underrepresented groups who need customized support.

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Making Northcentral PA the Global Center for Advanced Pressed Materials

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

Economic Development Administration that represents a forward-looking commitment to supercharging innovation across the nation, spurring cutting-edge technological investments, and creating 21st-century job opportunities. This collaboration was the only EDA Technology Hub designation in Pennsylvania.

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Sisterhood of Success: Female Founders Share Insights on Thriving Together

Entrepreneurs' Organization

When women have more money, not only is there gender equality and economic growth, but there’s also stronger and healthier communities for our children and generations to come. What I’ve learned from other women is that they’re community-oriented, values-based and brilliant at supporting each other in the good times and the bad.

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Governor Murphy Cuts the Ribbon at HAX Flagship U.S. HQ in Newark

American Entrepreneurship

HAX, a startup development program for pre-seed hard tech companies, with offices across the world, supports startups and entrepreneurs through investment capital, mentorship, and collaboration. Having a physical location where entrepreneurs can collaborate will help support new, diverse innovators and drive long-term economic growth.

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How To Grow Your Economy. Build It, Don’t Buy It!

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Building Startup Communities is the Way to Economic Growth and Recovery. All across the country, communities need to jump start and rebuild their economies. It’s time for a radical rethink in how we do economic development. There is a simple theory of change for civic, business, and community leaders to adopt.

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

Source Link

We are experiencing unprecedented opportunities for communities to evaluate how best to respond to short-term needs while building resilient solutions for long-term success. Having worked in over 100 communities for over 18 years, SourceLink understands that with ecosystem-building there will never be a check box to mark “done”.

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Rallying for rural entrepreneurship: addressing the challenges that face rural small businesses

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During my tenure with the local University I worked with economic developers all across Iowa, from Sioux City to Davenport and a great many small but mighty communities in-between: Grinnell, Parkersburg, Webster City and Lamoni to name a few. I grew up in a small town in north Iowa—Cedar Falls, to be exact.