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3 new ways to empower your entrepreneurial community

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Racial wealth disparity is a major barrier to thriving communities and economic growth. These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development. Living Cities’ Cities and Businesses of Color: A Guide to Economic Growth. Make your ecosystem inclusive.

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A Meeting of Unreasonable Minds

Entrepreneurs' Organization

A successful entrepreneur, businessman and EO Bahrain member, Suhail Algosaibi had long thought about how he could use his position and his company—FALAK Consulting—to make real, radical and sustainable change in his corner of the world. Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to.

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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. Population, though 97% of U.S. land is considered rural. Making the Case for Entrepreneurship!

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Pennsylvania Supports Small Business with Bipartisan State Budget

American Entrepreneurship

“Main streets across our Commonwealth are not only an important part of our small business economy, but they also create community, are gathering places and enhance our quality of life,” said Stephen McKnight, President and CEO, Blair County Alliance for Business and Economic Growth. “We

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Build a Better Tribe, Build a Better World

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Intercon International trading and consulting was a force to be reckoned with—that “young blonde woman” traveling all over the world, on the cover of business magazines and doing deals all day on my five-pound car phone. Plus, with education, she can go on to a career and become a leader in her community. Finding your people.

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WJR Business Beat with Jeff Sloan: Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Program Supports Detroit Businesses (Episode 217)

StartupNation

Goldman Sachs and the Goldman Sachs Foundation launched the 10,000 Small Businesses initiative to help entrepreneurs create jobs and economic growth by providing them with greater access to business education, financial capital and business support services. ” – Jerome Brown, co-owner of Detroit Soul.

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Innovation Policy and the Economy: Some New Research

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The essay reviews various causal factors for this “spatial mismatch,” and addresses potential policy solutions, such as creation of new “entrepreneur friendly zones,” providing more education support to residents in distressed areas, targeting grants and research funds to these regions, and so on. EntreWorks Blog.