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Strategies to sustain your entrepreneurial ecosystem

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We are experiencing unprecedented opportunities for communities to evaluate how best to respond to short-term needs while building resilient solutions for long-term success. While it might be tempting to jump right in, it’s important to take the time to evaluate successful outcomes and develop a strategy to achieve your goals.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. Today you have funders focused exclusively on “Day 0” startups or ones that aren’t even created yet. We have to have strong conviction in the quality of the team and the opportunity and commit more quickly. Ten years on much has changed.

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Solution Stories: Expanding Opportunity in Franklin County, Ohio

Forward Cities

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. Franklin County, Forward Cities. For me, this hits even closer to home.

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Impact Hub Bradford: journey in inclusive innovation

Impact Hub

Participants leave their programmes equipped with the tools and networks necessary for sustainable growth and success, demonstrating Impact Hub Bradford’s dedication to making a lasting impact in their community. With its commitment to diversity and social impact, they have become a key player in the city’s economic strategy.

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Expanding Opportunity In Franklin County, Ohio

Forward Cities

For many cities, a history of red-lining , unequal development, and decisions to build highways through thriving minority communities contributed in significant ways to disparities in wealth and access to opportunities in our neighborhoods. FRANKLIN COUNTY, FORWARD CITIES. For me, this hits even closer to home.

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Grantee Perception Report: What We Heard and How We Plan to do Better

Surdna Foundation

As a racial justice funder, we also know that shifting power and building equity, mutual accountability, and authentic, trusting relationships are vital to our grantmaking. We are also proactively sharing our data with Candid and signing on to data-sharing initiatives, such as the Climate Funders Justice Pledge.

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Frustrations and Challenges of Ecosystem Builders

Ecosystem Builder Hub

Having worked in entrepreneurial ecosystem building ourselves, we were not surprised that the main challenges in our field arise around a typical old-school mindset and a severe lack of equal opportunities for entrepreneurs of ALL ethnicities, backgrounds and gender. Dealing with resistive funders, however, is our biggest challenge.