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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

Impact Hub

Impact Hub: Our policy approach At Impact Hub, we are committed to accelerating global impact through collaboration, innovation, and inclusivity. These complementary pillars leverage Impact Hub’s extensive network of over 100 communities across the globe to accelerate learning across diverse realities.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

What was harder to figure out how to do--and something no one ever really thinks about on the economic development side, is community. I''ve always believed that investors make great community glue because they have a huge incentive for their local communities to thrive as places of innovation. What kind of support do they need?

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The goal of EBLP is to collaboratively design, build, test, and validate a field-wide infrastructure that will accelerate adoption of ecosystem building as a practice in economic, community, workforce, and entrepreneurship development in the United States. What would that look like? What would that look like?

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I don’t feel uncomfortable with the conversations anymore (which might be a bad thing) but good, long-term solutions to creating more equity still seems like it is a long way off, that we try to fix the same problems with the same solutions rather than realizing that radical, innovative interventions are necessary. Metrics & Data.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Google for Startups Accelerator. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google AI for Social Good. “Our

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge. Eric Parker.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. Google for Startups Accelerator. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Applicants must be primarily based in NYC. Kairos Fellows. “The

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