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5 EO Australia Women Share How To Make Entrepreneurship More Inclusive

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Over the past three years, there has been a marked increase in the number of women pursuing entrepreneurship, with an estimated 40 percent of new businesses in the United States started by women. Widespread layoffs during the pandemic contributed to an initial rise in female entrepreneurship in 2020, along with the need for flexibility.

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SourceLink + National League of Cities – Impacting Entrepreneurship in Rural Communities

Source Link

The initiative asks city leaders to commit to an inclusive economic development policy, program or practice over the course of one year. We are delighted to participate for the third year as a CIE program expert, helping guide committed communities toward identifying and connecting valuable entrepreneurship resources.

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SBA Announces Community Navigator Model and Funding Opportunity

Source Link

We’re thrilled the SBA goes on to recommend that effective network building must also adopt a data-driven approach , something we’ve been championing with communities via our SourceLink Pro entrepreneurship CRM and decision support system and Resource Navigator technologies. Want more information?

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A National Project to Advance Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Leaders Across Thirty Plus National Entrepreneurship Support Organizations Come Together to Advance the Field of Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building. The project will also be led by co-chairs: Dell Gines, Inclusive Urban and Rural Economic Development Consultant and Kristin Leutz, Founder of Petra Impact Partners.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

Ecosystem Builder Hub

The Ecosystem Building Leadership Project (EBLP) is an initiative to advance the entrepreneurship ecosystem building field of practice. After a several months of collaborative online exploration and development, over 70 volunteers convened in Indianapolis in early September to move the project forward. What would that look like?

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SourceLink Affiliate Quarterly Conversation - March 17, 2022

Source Link

The public is invited to attend Building Rural Communities Through Entrepreneurship Webinar on April 21 at 10:00am CT, a SourceLink? webinar on strategies for growing rural communities through entrepreneurship-led economic development. More to come!

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Innovation is key to economic development

Innovation 2 Enterprise

Innovation stimulates entrepreneurship. Successful entrepreneurship creates net new jobs. He emphasized leadership, measurable goals and metrics, and a sense of individual responsibility. OCAST is Oklahoma’s only agency with the sole focus of technology-based economic development. By Scott Meacham.