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$10K Grants and Skills Training: Free Events for June

StartupNation

Gain practical tips for tracking expenses, staying compliant, and building strong relationships with funders. Enroll for free Grant reporting and compliance June 2 | 2:30 – 4:00PM ET Grant funding can boost your business—if you manage it right.

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Empowering Nonprofits with AI: Ron Rivers on Innovation and Impact

Jason Malki

Connecting meaningfully with prospective partners, and conveying the transformative yet safe potential of AI, has required patience and creativity. Theres considerable apprehension around AI adoption within the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors.

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RFQ | Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Project Management

Forward Cities

To inform the Alliance strategy, E3 Durham conducted a rigorous 360-degree assessment of Durham’s small business ecosystem, engaging over 200 entrepreneurs, 40 ESOs, and a wide range of funders, policymakers, and economic development leaders. This process surfaced key strengths and gaps, which were prioritized by the Alliance.

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The Glue that Makes a Community Stick

This is going to be BIG.

Cheaper rents could make it a great place for the creative community and there''s no reason why it shouldn''t become as popular a destination for out of town events the same way that Austin has. These folks could become clients, funders, or good places to connect and work over the long term.

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How VCs, Accelerators, and Coworking Spaces Put Communities in Buildings vs. Buildings in Communities

This is going to be BIG.

I'll bet you don't know where the Center of NY's Tech Community and Center of Creativity is. Ideas get poorly vetted because the funders aren't current on tech trends. It's in the Financial District--right at 55 Broad Street. It says so right on their website. I'll bet you didn't know that--mostly because it never was.

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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

Source Link

These large-scale collaborations may involve non-profit resource partners, corporations, higher education, and local funders, and can help drive significant federal dollars into a community. With persistence and creativity, you can look for other funding opportunities to execute your well-developed plan. Don’t give up.

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Vista Equity Partners AI Hackathon Winners Announced

American Entrepreneurship

The winners in six categories are: Bonterra , Best Overall, used Large Language Models (LLMs) to streamline the grant review process for funders, a major challenge in the grant-making space. Smith, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Vista Equity Partners.