Betsy Hodges, former Mayor of Minneapolis and expert in local anti-racism policies, with mayors and experts explored policies that explicitly address racial justice in systemic ways. The conversation ranged from specific policies to understanding how systems can affect people in unseen and insidious ways. Join us for a deeper understanding of how local policy, systems, and racial bias prevent economic inclusion and how some leaders are talking the problem head on.

How is diversity and inclusion relevant to knowledge creation and research? Various studies indicate that researchers’ positionality – the various identities they hold – has a substantial impact on not only research topics, but also the theories and methods that scholars develop and use.

Economic development incentives aimed at attracting companies to a region have been a defining feature of many regional economic growth strategies. Are they worth it?

Fellows bring their experience, expand their familiarity with the local education system, and answer the call for effective advocacy.

This report presents national trends in early-stage entrepreneurship for the years 1996-2020 in the United States, as well as trends for specific demographic groups when possible.

This report takes up the relationship among motherhood, caregiving, the persistent wage penalty it carries for women, employment, and entrepreneurship.

The Kauffman Foundation will continue to work alongside others to push for changes needed to dismantle the broken systems of inequity that hold too many back and that prevent America from fulfilling its promise.

This brief takes a closer look at how business age matters in the way entrepreneurs feel the effects of COVID-19. It discusses challenges facing entrepreneurs before and during the pandemic, based on surveys with business owners during COVID-19 in spring 2020 and before COVID-19 in fall 2019.

As 2020 comes to a close, we asked some of the fascinating people we’ve had the privilege to work with recently to share their thoughts around systems change, new “normals,” how the events 2020 have impacted them, and what it will take to keep our communities moving forward, together.

Education is necessary for individual economic achievement. Failings in the education system directly result in economic exclusion, particularly for already vulnerable populations. The former Mayor of Kansas City, Sly James, made education a focus of his administration often argued for early childhood education would have positive impact on economic outcomes for the community as a whole. James gathered local leaders to discuss how other communities implemented early childhood education and connected it to economic growth.