Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

We appreciate collaboration and work diligently to identify appropriate networks & partners within ecosystems to convene and apply solutions collectively. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. To you, what is an Ecosystem Builder?

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Forward Cities

JUNE 11, 2021

Our President and CEO, Fay Horwitt, collaborated with Assistant Director of the Education Policy Center at NYCLU, Lanessa Owens-Chaplin , and Program Associate at the Surdna Foundation, Trevor Smith , to co-author a timely history of Black Wall Streets in America. It's hard to know.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 9, 2018

I was amazed at your innovation, approach, cleverness, enthusiasm, leadership traits, background, education, team?—?everything. Because you have a unitary focus on financing your company or you die you seem not to miss a beat in thinking about the last meeting and the funder has been whipsawed in 20 directions. everything.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JULY 20, 2020

“The proposals presented this round were enthusiastically received by our Scientific Advisory Committee, in particular the collaborative and team science projects.”. A major funder of research programs at the Oklahoma Health Center, PHF has awarded more than $25 million to support biomedical research in Oklahoma since 2014.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

As the Economic Innovation Group states, “the startup-less recovery revealed one of the glaring failures of the response to the Great Recession.” During the Great Recession, business failures rose faster than business starts and startup rates fell to a record low. In the ensuing years, entrepreneurship in America struggled to recover.

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Impact Hub

JUNE 1, 2021

With 100+ communities of 16,500 social entrepreneurs & innovators in more than 55 countries across five continents, Impact Hub is one of the world’s largest communities and accelerators for positive change.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Policy and collaboration with policy, academic and funding institutions. How to measure the impact of people collaborating. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) I’d like to be a more skilled collaborator. Mara Hardy.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

What holds them back in their work (scarcity, silos, unrealistic expectations and an unwillingness to collaborate). The most challenging aspect in working with different ecosystem partners has been trying to get them to collaborate, or at least stop seeing each other as competitors. The frustrating reality of non-collaboration.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

Someone who could understand the current landscape, help envision where we want to be and collaboratively develop a plan to get there.”. We have extremely talented people in our entrepreneurship support network, but as with all collaborative efforts, partnerships can also bring their own set of challenges. says Alexis.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. DV Hacks , led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The Notley is a catalyst for social innovation unlocking opportunities with today’s impact organizations and changing communities.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship. DV Hacks , led by BCG Digital Ventures: “A 48-hour hackathon to improve how we live, work, collaborate, and learn.”. J.M.Kaplan Innovation Prize. “The We model ourselves after tech incubators like Y Combinator, but train new policy thinkers and focus the impact of their ideas.

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

If one company takes off, all the angels benefit: in order to promote collaboration, we have allocated some carry per investment to an ‘Angel Pool’, from which all the angels share. We bring them onto our platform, provide more capital for them to deploy on our behalf, and share economics with them on investment on which we collaborate.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Funds need funders too, however, and the lack of traditional LPs willing to write checks for this industry can be problematic even though investments are trending upward. There is significant trapped value in cannabis, and until we acknowledge and remove bias from business, we will continue to miss opportunities for justice and innovation.

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