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Kauffman President and CEO, Wendy Guillies, discusses the current state of entrepreneurship, policy that supports new and small business, and the Foundation’s priorities for 2021.

This report presents state trends in early-stage entrepreneurship in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1996-2021.

Emmah Muema is a program manager – 1 Million Cups (1MC) in Operating Programs for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, where she will lead overall 1MC program operations, providing leadership support to regional representatives and volunteer community organizers working in more than 100 cities across the country. In addition, she will lead process improvement projects, […]

Economist Rob Fairlie says the most recent update of the Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship’s Early-Stage Entrepreneurship data illustrates a highly resilient entrepreneurial community in the face of COVID-19 as well as extended growth in self-starters among emerging majorities, specifically among Latino founders.

Appointed across the Impact and Research, Learning, and Evaluation teams, new directors will drive progress toward the Foundation’s 2035 vision.

Historically, research on entrepreneurship and innovation has rarely been conducted using community-engaged methodologies – even in work that seeks to address barriers to entrepreneurship in systemically marginalized communities. We believe that including the voices of entrepreneurs in the research process may produce more nuanced and robust findings that, ultimately, can serve as the basis for programs and policies that could truly change the landscape of entrepreneurship in the United States.

The Kauffman Foundation operates 1 Million Cups, Kauffman FastTrac®, and Real World Learning, which drive impact for our strategic priorities: college access and completion, workforce and career development, and entrepreneurship.

Meet the researchers who are working with communities to help close the gap between those proposing solutions to socioeconomic problems and those closest to the problems.

Are you interested in the landscape of entrepreneurship in your local community? Watch this Data Dive into a new survey conducted by NORC at the University of Chicago and funded by the Kauffman Foundation. NORC scholars discuss their first-year findings as part of a 5-year, cross-sectional, nationally representative survey designed to capture an accurate measure of entrepreneurship status among the U.S population.

Dr. DeAngela Burns-Wallace begins role in August 2023.