Challenges Along the Entrepreneurial Journey: Considerations for Entrepreneurship Supporters May 28, 2020 We asked more than 500 entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs across the United States about the challenges they face to better understand how entrepreneurship supporters can help.
We must collectively commit to rebuilding the small business sector October 29, 2020 Bruce Katz outlines five steps to leverage entrepreneurship for economic recovery from a new report: “Big Ideas for Small Business.”
After generations of disinvestment, rural America might be the most innovative place in the U.S. December 14, 2020 Rural leaders, governments, and philanthropic funders who aren’t afraid to break with long-standing assumptions about the inevitability of rural decline can leverage the potential, talent, and innovative spirit of rural America to build the new Heartland.
While the national economy grapples with recovery, mayors offer a blueprint for growth October 30, 2020 Mayors who focused on entrepreneurship before 2020 share three reasons why Austin, Dayton, Birmingham, and Oklahoma City, are in a better position to weather COVID-19 and the current economic crisis.
Leveraging entrepreneurship to close racial wealth gaps October 20, 2020 Living Cities and the Kauffman Foundation collaborate on an impact investing fund dedicated to closing the racial income and wealth gaps.
The doors will not be closed on Black entrepreneurs November 17, 2020 While the share of new Black entrepreneurs has steadily increased, the pandemic has dealt Black business owners, specifically, a blow that only magnifies the inequities built into the American economy. Black business owners in Kansas City, like entrepreneurs across the country, are managing the reality of now – and the history that got us here.
How Quickly do New Employer Businesses Hire? March 20, 2020 Entrepreneurship is often heralded as important to the economy because of its job creation effects. These jobs come from new employer businesses, a small but important subset of entrepreneurial activity in the United States.
Rebuild better, block by block June 4, 2020 In conversation for the Social Innovation Summit, Minneapolis-based founder and CEO Tawanna Black and Kauffman’s Philip Gaskin discuss how to build a just economy where everyone is able to write their own story through entrepreneurship and business ownership to create a true American Dream.
Student Loans and Entrepreneurship: An Overview July 22, 2020 The relationship between student loan debt and entrepreneurship sits at the intersection of many questions related to labor markets, higher education, business dynamism, innovation, and capital markets. This brief considers these intersections.