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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

Source Link

How can your programming be sustainable and live beyond this grant cycle? This approach has resulted in sustainable success for IASourceLink. Building collaborations can spark, spur, and sustain economic growth. SourceLink has demonstrated success helping communities build and grow sustainable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Black Innovation Alliance, Village Capital team up to support founders of color

TechCrunch

Resource’s “ESO Accelerator” will train startup ecosystem leaders on how to build a more financially sustainable organization, as well as help connect them to potential funders. Resource is supported by a national coalition of funders committed to supporting entrepreneurs of color.

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Unsung Hero Spotlight: Beth Zimmer

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Through an effective PR/Educational campaign, we’ve affected the shift to much more of a focus on encouraging more startups and risk taking. Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. We have been really successful in changing our community’s culture.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

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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Standing up for Justice

Surdna Foundation

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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Professional development for tomorrow’s ecosystem builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Not everybody can do ecosystem building; it’s a talent that is developed through experience and education, connections and networking. An ecosystem of support, funding, education and opportunity is essential for businesses to scale but it is hard to articulate and quantify this to make the case compelling. Melanie Lenci. Hard skills.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

Both Sides of the Table

Online education. It is built on what is called “ aquaponics ” in which food is grown in water (not soil) and connected to a self-sustaining symbiotic ecosystem through the use of a fish tank with acquatic animals that become part of a biosystem to grow organic and fresh veg 7/365 and year round. Startup Lessons'

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