accelerator economic development funders 
This is going to be BIG.
JULY 14, 2013
What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term. Stuff like that--buildings and businesses--were easy to describe.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
JUNE 20, 2020
I asked them to treat me like a funder. The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis. They described social improvement and positive outcomes – but nothing that was tangible.
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Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Denisse Rodriguez. Mara Hardy. Hard skills. Dustin Shay.
American Entrepreneurship
OCTOBER 20, 2023
Fearless Fund in collaboration with Amazon awards grants between $10,000 and $20,000 to black women in their B lack Business Accelerator program and the Minority Business Development Agency in the past has awarded g rants to college and universities that assist undergraduate students with entrepreneurship. Accelerators found h ere.
David Teten VC
DECEMBER 2, 2019
Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. They will also be offered the opportunity to join a customized 6-month Google Developers Launchpad Accelerator program, including guidance from our nonprofit partner, DataKind, to jumpstart their work.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. What would that look like?
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Mara Hardy.
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