Knowledge, Training and Networks

Initiatives

• Bizdom U 

  Bizdom U provides comprehensive, real world training for aspiring entrepreneurs that have a burning passion and determination to build their own business.
  

• Entrepreneur Postdoctoral Fellows Program 

  With the aim of cultivating entrepreneurs from among the postdoctoral community, the Kauffman Foundation’s Entrepreneur Postdoctoral Fellows program educates and trains scientist-founders who will create the high-growth technology companies of tomorrow.

• Kauffman FastTrac 

  

  Kauffman FastTrac™ is a practical, hands-on business development program designed to help entrepreneurs hone the skills needed to create, manage and grow a successful business.
  

• Kauffman Fellows 

  The Kauffman Fellows Program provides firsthand experience in the venture capital process for exceptional men and women.
  

• Kauffman Global Scholars Program 

  

  The Kauffman Global Scholars Program fosters international entrepreneurship by immersing top young entrepreneurs from around the world in America's entrepreneurial culture.
  

   

• Kauffman Laboratories for Enterprise Creation 

  Kauffman Laboratories for Enterprise Creation draws on the best of the Kauffman Foundation programs that supported a wave of entrepreneurial activity and promises a new set of major innovations designed to develop the next generation of entrepreneurs.

• KCSourceLink 

  KCSourceLink connects a network of over one hundred business resource providers to help entrepreneurs in the Kansas City region grow and succeed.

• Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award 

  Postdoctoral scholars who take the entrepreneurial steps to get their research to market bring enormous potential benefits to society and the economy. To recognize and encourage postdoc entrepreneurial excellence, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the National Postdoctoral Association (NPA) have launched the Kauffman Foundation Outstanding Postdoctoral Entrepreneur Award.
  

• Science Commons 

  Science Commons, an organization that designs strategies and tools for faster, more efficient Web-enabled scientific research, identifies unnecessary barriers to research, crafts policy guidelines and legal agreements to lower those barriers, and develops technology to make research data and materials easier to find and use.
  

• The Ice House Entrepreneurship Program 

  The Ice House Entrepreneurship Program consists of a book and an online companion course.  The book shares timeless lessons from the life experiences of Clifton Taulbert (successful entrepreneur and acclaimed author) while growing up in the Mississippi Delta.

• The MIT Venture Mentor Service Outreach Program 

  Founded in 2002, the MIT Venture Mentor program supports innovation and entrepreneurial activity throughout the MIT community by utilizing mentors to educate early-stage innovators.

• Urban Entrepreneur Partnership 

  This initiative provides for the development of one-stop economic empowerment centers to provide business training, counseling, financing, and procurement opportunities to minority and urban business owners.
  

• Women Scientists in Innovation 

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  The Kauffman Foundation is working to unleash the latent scientific wealth of female scientists, ensuring that they have the support networks and financial means to start businesses and advance their innovations.