culture funders leadership opportunity 
Forward Cities
MAY 13, 2024
And since more equitable business ownership holds great potential for addressing the racial wealth gap, we are on a mission to catalyze wealth-building opportunities for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous entrepreneurs by transforming the way local communities see, support, and sustain those entrepreneurs.
Founders Coop
FEBRUARY 21, 2024
And the culture inevitably shifted, from a passionate commitment to founders and the entrepreneurial journey, to a system focused on generating cash from paying corporate customers, with the promise of “innovation” on their terms. The next important group to spot the weakness in Techstars’ strategy was the investment community.
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Ecosystem Builder Hub
JULY 10, 2020
We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture. We were identified as having a culture that was extremely risk averse and complacent, with very low levels of entrepreneurial activity. I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of our existing leadership ecosystem.
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 25, 2020
Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. An ecosystem of support, funding, education and opportunity is essential for businesses to scale but it is hard to articulate and quantify this to make the case compelling. Melanie Lenci.
Surdna Foundation
DECEMBER 11, 2020
Until the late 1980s, Surdna’s grantmaking centered on education (scholarships), culture (arts organizations, libraries, etc.), Finalizing the language of our mission statement was only the first step in answering the question, “What does it mean to be a social justice funder?”. and basic community infrastructure (fire engines!).
Ecosystem Builder Hub
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge.
TechCrunch
MARCH 15, 2022
They believed in the team, vision, mission and the opportunity of building streamlined cross-border commerce solutions for African consumers. The market opportunity was there; e-commerce is less than 10 years old in Africa, with a 3% penetration rate and a 27% personal consumption rate in Africa, the second-highest after Asia.
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