Ben Franklin Technology Partners

APRIL 30, 2024

Their high-light projector stimulates cognitive responses, increasing engagement and retention, thus offering a valuable resource for parents and educators alike. Their project, currently in the engineering phase, holds promise for reducing carbon emissions while promoting economic development in the region.

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Source Link

MARCH 30, 2022

Identifying and filling these cultural competency gaps benefits your entire community, and it is an essential component of continued economic and social progress. These resources can help you get started: IEDC’s Playbook for Equitable Economic Development. If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it’s how to adapt.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

APRIL 29, 2018

Add to that, the dozens of courses I’ve attended and home education programs I’ve listened to. To ensure that the event is well-attended, Suhail and his team made the surprising—some may say, “unreasonable”—decision to make UTS completely free. Explains Suhail, “The UTS promotes ongoing learning by being an educational event.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 13, 2022

ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing. Our regional and national events this year included the 2021 Fall Forum live event in Philadelphia, and the 2021 ACA Summit of Angel Investing hybrid conference in Portland.

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StartupNation

JULY 1, 2021

How does a golf event end up helping the broader community? When you don’t have access, you are excluded from opportunities: opportunities for education, employment and belonging. ” – Laura Grannemann, vice president of strategic investments from the Rocket Community Fund.

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American Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Its mission is to foster vibrant small business communities through free mentoring and education workshops for small business owners. Keep your eye out for local representatives or educational events on how to register and apply for Federal procurement contracts as well as similar programs in your State.

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Angel Capital Association

JANUARY 26, 2023

ACA members and groups enjoy unprecedented education and networking opportunities, brought to them by the trusted authority in angel investing. 2023 promises to be another exciting year, with new educational opportunities, additional networking and community building events.

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Source Link

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Responding to external events and changes that impact your community requires ongoing adjustments to effect lasting and meaningful economic change. There are significant government dollars available for economic recovery right now. Building collaborations can spark, spur, and sustain economic growth.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

APRIL 27, 2023

Passionate about entrepreneurship, innovation, economic development, community engagement, and higher education, Sammy has been able to work at the intersection of his passions through his ecosystem building efforts at the University of Maryland, College Park.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Wilds Sonshine Factory, located in McKean County, is developing unique products manufactured from locally grown sunflower plants. The WSF houses an interpretive agricultural education center and an interactive corridor where visitors learn about local natural resource industries such as timber, water, etc. We Invest in Innovation.

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American Entrepreneurship

DECEMBER 19, 2023

December 19, 2023) – Last week, the N ew Jersey Economic Development Authority (NJEDA) Board approved $3 million in Public Space Activation Grants under the Activation, Revitalization and Transformation (A.R.T.) Additionally, the Absecon Lighthouse provides educational art programs. $10M A.R.T.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

JANUARY 18, 2021

Many thanks to the judges, regional partners, and Senator Dan Laughlin for taking the time to attend and support this entrepreneurial event. Two Sparrows LS/Shape City, located in Erie , is creating an interactive gaming platform for the education technology market.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The final sections focus on leveraging best practices that discuss how to assess where a community is at in its efforts and covers programs, events, and principles that work. I suspect many ecosystem builders will find the final sections of the book the most rewarding. There is no special training required to be a Startup Junkie.

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NZ Entrepreneur

JANUARY 20, 2022

As an entrepreneur and educator first, publisher second, I followed Jake’s story with interest. Our startup culture must never be reduced to a cold, box ticking, economic development or investment exercise in our quest to find and fund New Zealand’s next hot new success story as I have written before.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

JUNE 5, 2019

This conference is actually one of the biggest events for us with regards to finding new partners in commercializing our technologies. … “Most of our intellectual property and technologies are either in therapeutics, diagnostics or biomedically related, life sciences or health care related. That’s basically what we specialize in,” Nair said.

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Angel Capital Association

JUNE 7, 2021

Education & Smart Practices. Pre-pandemic, ACA held a series of regional events throughout North America and one global event each year to build relationships, increase deal flow and syndication, and deliver top-quality educational sessions to angel investors. Data Analytics & Insights. Public Policy.

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Ben Franklin Technology Partners

MARCH 20, 2019

The winners, Mark Albert Barbera and his company Mark Albert Boots, and Timothy Kretchman with Action Driven Education each took home $5,000! Robert Dornich, Director of Ben Franklin’s Tech Celerator Program was the MC for the event as well as the coach for all the teams.

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Source Link

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

In fact, many communities start with just one area of focus and develop their program over time to realize economic impact. In 2018, the state of Nebraska released Blueprint Nebraska, a strategic plan aimed at identifying the state’s core economic development challenges to create pioneering solutions. Worth the wait.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

What is the most successful/impactful program/event/thing you do/have done in your ecosystem? Catalyzed region’s first angel investment group and co-founded an educational technology startup to teach kids to code and train STEM teachers in underserved schools. It all starts with choosing to give people a hand up.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

As an emerging field that is challenging the status quo of entrepreneurship in economic development, ecosystem builders are bound to run into obstacles along the way which – if repeated and consistent – make us want to pull our hair out. and abroad between February and September 2020. Carina Boston Pinales. Rodney Woods.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 21, 2020

What is the most successful/impactful program/event/thing you do/have done in your ecosystem? I operate at the intersection of economic development, community development, and workforce development to craft solutions. I contribute to my ecosystem in different ways.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Indeed, the Italian Ministry of Economic Development and the Italian Trade & Investment Agency in London have even been known to fund Italian entrepreneurs abroad to help them gain more experience. However, seed rounds for startups remain low, even for Europe, ranging from anywhere from €300,000 to €1 million.

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Impact Hub

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Impact Hub ran the Guiné-Bissau Empreende campaign, through which a brilliant team of young skilled visionaries was selected to receive in-depth capacity building, training and support and become community agents for innovation, improving local economic development and strengthening its social cohesion.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. Future Labs Flash Pitch. “For Google AI for Social Good. “The Summit Fellows.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Their foci include addressing environmental sustainability, racial and gender equity, economic development concerns, etc. ” Recurse Center. “The Recurse Center is a self-directed, community-driven educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming.”. Skoll Foundation. Summit Fellows.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 12, 2021

These challenges are still, to an extent, worries to our portfolio companies, as the economic development is still uncertain. It is hard to find glimmers of hope lately, as the situation in the Czech Republic is really not developing well. Given all the events of 2020 we had a solid year as a fund.

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