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Five Start-Up Companies Competed for $35,000 — One Winner has been named the 2025 Ben Franklin Big Idea Contest Grand Prize Winner! 

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The May 15th finale was hosted virtually by Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Central and Northern Pennsylvania (Ben Franklin CNP), an initiative of the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development (DCED). Jim Fetzner concluded, Great ideas dont create themselves it takes vision and real work.

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Raising Awareness about Entrepreneurship as an Economic Development Strategy

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Communities seeking to grow their economy need to understand the impact entrepreneurship and small business play in economic growth.” — Grow Your Own: Entrepreneurship-based Economic Development for Local Communities, Dell Gines, Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. Identify Potential Allies.

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SOSV is building a New Jersey HAX facility for industrial, healthcare and climate startups

TechCrunch

The five-year development plan utilizes $25 million from the New Jersey Economic Development Authority. Since 2015, HAX started investing in more industrial & health startups and today make up 90% of our new investments,” HAX partner Garrett Winther told TechCrunch. companies working toward their seed round.

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Practical Metrics and Methods: ESHIP Goal 5 – Part 1

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Recently, I worked with a community that was struggling to explain what they thought success looked like in ten years to their funding organizations. The traditional economic development approach uses static and reactive metrics – the number of jobs created, capital investment dollars, and companies recruited – on an annual basis.

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Brazil’s Black Silicon Valley could be an epicenter of innovation in Latin America

TechCrunch

Tara Sabre Collier is an early-stage impact investor with more than 15 years of experience at the intersection of economic development, social entrepreneurship and impact investment. Tara Sabre Collier. Contributor. She is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University where she teaches and writes about impact investing, diversity and equity.

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STARTUPS RECEIVE INVESTMENT FROM BEN FRANKLIN TECHNOLOGY PARTNERS

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

For more information: www.dmi-llc.com. Dub Diversified LLC (DBA OhanaLink), located in Mercer PA, received funding to help with scaling sales traction and enhancing go-to-market and customer support activities for a platform that provides a private connection network to a diverse client base. www.cnp.benfranklin.org.

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Creating Jobs and Helping Grow the PA Economy: Ben Franklin Technology Partners Invests in 17 Tech Startups!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

The Ben Franklin program, which has been investing in tech startups and small manufacturers for nearly 40 years, recently received additional funding support from the Department of Community and Economic Development to invest in its portfolio clients that have been adversely affected by COVID-19. www.boostpoint.com.