Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Through an effective PR/Educational campaign, we’ve affected the shift to much more of a focus on encouraging more startups and risk taking. I believe it is that this vision is too visionary for the majority of our existing leadership ecosystem. We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

It can be frustrating to know that there are a plethora of great opportunities out there to help and educate our entrepreneurial community, but if our entrepreneurs have to spend their precious time trying to understand or simply find the info they’re looking for, they’re not making money and their frustration grows as well. . Mara Hardy.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. Hard skills training: Facilitation & leadership, more and better business support for entrepreneurs, organizational skills, work-life balance. and abroad between February and September 2020.

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development entrepreneurial ecosystem funders economic development 75

Surdna Foundation

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Until the late 1980s, Surdna’s grantmaking centered on education (scholarships), culture (arts organizations, libraries, etc.), It took the board and staff a year to settle on language that captured our ethos and aspirations: fostering sustainable communities in the United States guided by principles of social justice.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

We are fortunate to have leadership that have masterminded strategies utilizing public and private funding, along with a stellar regional foundation (Danville Regional Foundation, or DRF) to slowly work this puzzle out. Leadership role – somebody has to take up the challenge to lead the efforts. Challenges.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“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. Skoll Foundation.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 2, 2019

“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.

startup 40

startup mentorship sustainability accelerator 40