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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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Before you apply for money to fund your entrepreneurship-led economic development work – whether you’re just starting out, or are expanding your programming – dedicate time to strategically consider your long-term goals and craft your vision. How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle?

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Impact Hub: Our policy approach

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Our 110 communities are diverse yet they all need an enabling environment of supportive regulatory frameworks, inclusive economic development initiatives, stronger social and environmental sustainability standards, and a brave impact funding environment.

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Project to Professionalize Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Building Progresses

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Over the two days of the workshop, nine projects were identified to move the EBLP forward from the following prompts: Regarding the Field: Imagine the field of entrepreneurship ecosystem building takes center stage; it is consistently adopted among practitioners, funders, policy makers, and others – locally, regionally, and nationally.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

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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. The success of small/local business is incredibly vital for a sustainable economy.

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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

I would like to know how to best measure and track entrepreneurship and economic development in a non-traditional way. I’d like to understand how to build effective multi-year plans that inspire and engage both funders of my own organization (and/or myself!) Denisse Rodriguez. Mara Hardy. Hard skills. Dustin Shay. Beth Zimmer.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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Free money for your impact tech startup

David Teten VC

“Since 2011, the Bluhm/Helfand Social Innovation (BHSI) Fellowship has supported the work of 36 innovators—representing the United States as well as 18 other countries on five continents—who address pressing global issues, from healthcare delivery to college persistence and sustainable construction in developing nations.

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