Kansas City’s West 18th Street Fashion Show is the culmination of two decades of development that puts the inclusive, creative, and entrepreneurial community now known as the Crossroads Arts District on full display.

In cities and towns where city leaders and entrepreneurs work together, they create communities with vibrant local economies where startups and small businesses thrive.

Justice in the Schools helps families avoid housing disruption as hundreds of families live on the brink of homelessness in Kansas City.

With the support of NetWork Kansas, there’s a grocery store in Mildred, Kansas. Networks of rural ecosystem builders help dismantle barriers for rural entrepreneurs – whether it’s supporting the success of the one business in town, or sustaining a vibrant ‘micropolis.’

It didn’t take the double hashtags of August 21 – #seniorcitizensday and #worldentrepreneurday – for the AARP Foundation to recognize where entrepreneurship is booming in the U.S.

Cities that understand the significant economic and cultural contributions of foreign-born entrepreneurs are combating obstacles created by U.S. visa restrictions by participating in a program that breaks down barriers to welcome those who want to contribute to their communities.

The Burgazzi family in Venezuela have watched their nation’s economic and social fabric unravel. They wait for a day of reckoning when their homeland hits bottom. When it does, they will be ready to help rebuild.

Residents, community leaders, the business community, and community organizations are working together in Kansas City to leverage Opportunity Zone investments to establish sustainable, homegrown, community-driven development as the norm.

Independence School District embeds Real World Learning in high school curriculum giving students the opportunity to develop skills for life and learning after graduation.

2019 Inclusion Open grants seek to test new ideas or scale proven programs centered on inclusion and equity to remove barriers to entrepreneurship.