Impact Hub

MARCH 25, 2024

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. The hub’s approach revolves around creating opportunities and benefits for women, young people, and people of colour.

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Surdna Foundation

APRIL 11, 2022

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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Ecosystem Builder Hub

JULY 10, 2020

Today, I have asked some key funders to consider requiring ecosystem asks vs asks from individual organizations. Formal development opportunities around facilitation, communities of practice, and leadership are of interest. If we could have open conversations with these folks, I believe that we could change their mindsets.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

OCTOBER 4, 2022

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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Impact Hub

JUNE 1, 2021

During the 1-2 June workshop, an in-depth review of the Jordan social enterprise ecosystem was conducted; opportunities and gaps were discussed alongside topics such as return on investment, institutional frameworks, access to finance, impact measurement & management and international impact certification practices.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

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.

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Forward Cities

MARCH 27, 2020

Additionally, with crisis comes opportunity. As disruptive as COVID-19 is, new entrepreneurial opportunities will open up because of it. But if cities can deploy a well developed rapid response plan we have an opportunity to take on this challenge head on and hopefully head off a complete economic collapse. .

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Surdna Foundation

DECEMBER 11, 2020

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. Finalizing the language of our mission statement was only the first step in answering the question, “What does it mean to be a social justice funder?”.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

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. 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!) Melanie Lenci.

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Forward Cities

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Evidence gathered through the application of the tools has helped local stakeholders better understand entrepreneurship in their community, including to whom entrepreneurship is inaccessible and what actions need to be taken to enhance equity in entrepreneurial opportunities for underserved communities. . Start date: November 30, 2020.

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Ecosystem Builder Hub

AUGUST 14, 2020

In a nascent field like entrepreneurial ecosystem building, practitioner examples are rare and we were not going to pass up the opportunity to speak to four representatives of this pilot project to learn more about: What gave rise to the need of hiring an ecosystem builder. River and bridges in Danville. Challenges.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

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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Forward Cities

MAY 13, 2024

And since more equitable business ownership holds great potential for addressing the racial wealth gap, we are on a mission to catalyze wealth-building opportunities for Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous entrepreneurs by transforming the way local communities see, support, and sustain those entrepreneurs.

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Founders Coop

APRIL 29, 2024

Back to the Y Combinator / Techstars comparison, over the past 20 years, each of those systems had the same opportunity to screen tens of thousands of teams, select a subset of them to try to help, and then see how those experiments played out over time. But it is also vulnerable and subject to decay at every step.

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TechCrunch

JULY 8, 2021

Existing backers such as Nextview Ventures and Florida Funders also put money in the round, in addition to a number of insurance and logistics groups such as Flexport. The main purpose for raising capital was so we can build out the team necessary to fulfill demand and sustain growth moving forward,” Matthew said.

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TechCrunch

MAY 25, 2022

Yet, now is a very apt time to take another look at the cannabis opportunity in the U.S. Funds need funders too, however, and the lack of traditional LPs willing to write checks for this industry can be problematic even though investments are trending upward. That said, the fundamental business opportunity remains intact.

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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. Notley Ventures.

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Forward Cities

JUNE 21, 2021

Evidence gathered through the application of our research tools helps local stakeholders better understand access to entrepreneurship in their community and identify what actions need to be taken to enhance equity in entrepreneurial opportunities for underserved communities. . Anticipated start date: July 6, 2021. About Forward Cities.

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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. We offer 7.5K

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American Entrepreneurship

MARCH 21, 2024

“We identified an unexplored space in the entertainment industry driven by an increasing demand for audio fiction and crafted a playbook to address this opportunity across every key market,” said Rohan Nayak, CEO and Co-Founder of Pocket FM.

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