Amy Unruh Amy Unruh is director of strategic communications for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. She leads the Strategic Communications team to develop and execute a communications strategy that advances the Foundation’s priorities, overseeing brand management, marketing, media relations, and storytelling to engage key audiences. She previously held the role of senior communications manager. Prior to joining […]
‘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.
New Employer Business Indicators in the United States: National and State Trends (2021) May 1, 2022 The unprecedented rise of business applications during the COVID-19 pandemic has raised a number of questions as to what will become of these businesses – whether they become employers, how long it takes them to do so, and how new employer businesses are shaping the landscape of employer firms across the nation.
New Business Applications during the COVID-19 Pandemic May 1, 2022 In 2020 and 2021, the number of business applications filed each month experienced a great deal of volatility, deviating sharply from historical values. As business applications are often used as an indicator for the general health of the economy, this paper examines these data more closely.
Skilled KC Skilled KC Program Update Skilled KC has concluded its pilot programming and will not continue operations after March 18. We are entering a period of due diligence and analysis, which will allow the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to fully process the Skilled KC work to date, learn from others, and determine its best ongoing investments […]
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 in the Midst of Digital Transformation Panelists explore what increasing digitalization means for new businesses, how entrepreneurs are adapting to a digital landscape, and what the potential is for digitalization to increase entrepreneurial equity and inclusion – or recreate existing inequities. Watch the full forum below.
State Report on Early-Stage Entrepreneurship in the United States (2021) April 1, 2022 This report presents state trends in early-stage entrepreneurship in all 50 states and the District of Columbia from 1996-2021.
Are We Back? Early-Stage Entrepreneurship Trends Two Years into the COVID Pandemic March 18, 2022 The landscape of entrepreneurship has changed dramatically since the emergence of COVID-19. In this brief, we highlight some of these changes based on findings from the Kauffman Early-Stage Entrepreneurship Indicators – a set of measures that track new business creation in the United States going back more than 25 years. We also examine how trends during COVID-19 compare to trends during the Great Recession.
Black and brown communities are determining their own futures. Gatekeepers need not apply March 16, 2022 The Plug founder, Sherrell Dorsey, writes that no one is waiting around for the powers that be to grant access to the resources needed for progress.