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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

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In guiding organizations through the process of deploying Community Navigators (we often refer to them as Network Navigators), it’s been our experience this model can be successful in communities of all sizes—whether that’s impacting small towns like Klamath Falls or scaling to statewide initiatives in Kansas , Missouri , Wisconsin and Iowa.

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This YLAI Fellow is influencing sustainable behavior in his Dominican Republic community

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Green Depot , based in the Dominican Republic, aims to make the planet, and his community members, more eco-conscious. To celebrate Porfirio’s efforts in creating job opportunities in his community, and in leading them toward a culture of sustainability, the YLAI Network asked him a few questions about Green Depot’s successes.

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Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Building sustainable marketing skills with a Colombian YLAI Fellow. Katherine learned to overcome challenges, as the only woman in the company, through her determination to build sustainable marketing skills. By Shannon Courtney. Make sure that your brand has a personality. Develop a strategic and flexible team with diverse ideas.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

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The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. Improving the Field: Imagine a learning infrastructure supporting the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field widely seen as both efficient and innovative. What would that look like?

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Ohio Small Business Program Launches, Partnership of JobsOhio and Aileron

American Entrepreneurship

The program will develop the leadership skills of small business owners and executives to help their small businesses achieve business growth. Ohio’s small business community received a big boost this week with the announcement that JobsOhio and nonprofit Aileron are partnering.

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A National Project to Advance Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Leaders Across Thirty Plus National Entrepreneurship Support Organizations Come Together to Advance the Field of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building. Over thirty leaders and entrepreneurship ecosystem builders from a diverse collective of National Resource Providers are engaged as advisors to the co-chairs and the project team.

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From Solo Entrepreneur to Franchisor: 20 Years of Business Growth With EO

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Over the past 20 years, Aldea Home & Baby has blossomed into a cornerstone for stylish, sustainable furnishings in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and online. Here’s how, with the support of the EO community, I found new ways to work and began to truly gain traction in my business’s success.