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Angel Capital Association
JANUARY 13, 2022
We owe a debt of gratitude to our tireless volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise, and dedication to our mission. The Angel Funders Report is based on direct investment data solicited from all ACA member groups. We are also actively pursuing several grants with partners like TechTown in Detroit.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
What we found through our research are three essential areas to foster the professional and personal development of entrepreneurial ecosystem builders: Justifying and valuing their work: Building the business case for inclusive ecosystem building through fieldwide metrics . Training in collaboration, facilitation and leadership techniques. .
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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.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Julie Heath , VP Entrepreneurial Ecosystems at Indiana Economic Development Corporation. Beth Zimmer , Project Manager at Ecosystem Building Leadership Project. What would that look like?
Angel Capital Association
JANUARY 26, 2023
We are deeply grateful to our dedicated volunteers and professional staff for their leadership, expertise and dedication to our mission. Seed the Future contributions have allowed us to develop strategic marketing campaigns and target new stakeholders including the economic development community that has been hungry for our education.
EntreWorks Consulting
OCTOBER 17, 2019
Folks in the business of community building know the story when it comes to outside funders. Starved for funds, grantees can’t invest in retaining talent, training people, developing new skills, and maintaining an experience base about what works in the field. They fund projects, not organizations. EntreWorks Blog.
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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