Kansas City’s entrepreneurship community leverages funding innovation, technical support, and the drive to succeed November 8, 2022 A panel discussion offered insights from local entrepreneurs as well as promising developments in equitable access to financing and technical support needed for entrepreneurs to start and grow businesses in the Kansas City.
Leveraging State Policy to Fund Entrepreneurs and Build Sustainable Entrepreneurial Ecosystems ECOSYSTEMS IN ACTION: PRACTICES FROM THE FIELD Key Practice This brief outlines an example of how one organization leveraged state policy to address the perennial problem of access to capital for entrepreneurs. By financing a revolving loan fund, the program became a robust platform for entrepreneurial ecosystem development. This story explores three practices that when […]
State fact sheets provide snapshots of early-stage entrepreneurial activity November 16, 2021 The Kauffman Indicators of Entrepreneurship offer in-depth measures, reports, and interactive data visualizations that present entrepreneurial trends in the U.S. – state fact sheets break down the research to a quick-hit of accessible, user-friendly key data.
Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation CEO Wendy Guillies announces retirement after 22 years of leadership and impact July 7, 2022 Guillies’ leadership set a path aimed at generational impact on entrepreneurs, educators, and students.
Research that rejects status quo is worth investment April 25, 2022 Chhaya Kolavalli writes that Kauffman’s Inclusive Ecosystems grant is focused on research that values community voice and pushes back against the accepted norm to collect data, and frame problems and solutions on communities, rather than with them.
Entrepreneurship and COVID-19: Reflections on the Past Year Panelists discuss how the landscape is changing for entrepreneurship in the United States and what this means for policymakers and entrepreneurship support organizations in the months and years ahead. Watch the full forum below.
State Report on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in the United States (2020) March 1, 2021 This report presents state trends in early-stage entrepreneurship in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1996-2020.
‘Rebuilding Black Wall Street for Us All’: Panel examines actions and policy changes needed to level the playing field for entrepreneurs May 6, 2022 The Kauffman Foundation-hosted panel discussed how increased access to opportunity, funding, knowledge, and support can help rebuild Black Wall Street and create a more inclusive future for us all.
2019 State of Entrepreneurship Address December 17, 2019 Too many communities concentrate on attracting businesses from afar instead of growing them at home. In a thriving ecosystem, entrepreneurship empowers individuals, improves standards of living, and creates jobs, wealth, and innovation in the economy. But the success of an entrepreneurial ecosystem can’t be bought; it has to be built. In the 2019 State of […]
Incentives for Entrepreneurial Firms August 2, 2021 The purpose of this report is to provide practitioners and policymakers with insights regarding the use of business incentives and guidance for offering incentives to entrepreneurial firms.