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Win Up To $10,000 in Ben Franklin’s No-Cost Startup Boot Camp!

Ben Franklin Technology Partners

You’ll come away from this experience with a working business model, networking contacts, and experience pitching to potential funders. Business mentoring from Ben Franklin’s Transformation Business Services Network and Penn State’s Small Business Development Center staff will also be provided at no cost. Apply now at [link].

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Impact Hub Bradford: journey in inclusive innovation

Impact Hub

The programme aims to strengthen organisations, facilitate community engagement, and increase visibility, offering tailored support and funding opportunities. The goal by 2030 is to establish an inclusive investment ecosystem, a support network for social enterprises, and position Bradford as a hub for social innovation and enterprise.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

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. Data today, 3-5 years later will not support that notion though.

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

In the midst of supporting founders in their communities during a global pandemic, what do they wish they were more versed in? Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. Lauren Mehler Pradhan. Melanie Lenci. Adam Arredondo.

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Standing up for Justice

Surdna Foundation

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!).

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Developing Rapid-Response Plans for Cities to Help Entrepreneurs and Small Businesses in This Time of Economic Crisis

Forward Cities

Set up or leverage a digital communications platform that helps small businesses connect with resources, a community of support, and a storytelling platform that can personalize and amplify the work, products, and needs of small businesses; . Cities need to be ready to harness this creative energy as part of their response plans.