Growing Kansas Businesses

Registration opens July 1 for a statewide virtual entrepreneurship competition for youth in Kansas in grades K-12. The 3rd Annual Kansas Youth Virtual Entrepreneurship Challenge, which was created during COVID-19 shutdowns, as a way for young people to have a platform to publicize their innovative products and services on a statewide platform. More than 140 young people participated in the challenge during its inaugural year.

Congratulations to the 20 businesses that received funding from NetWork Kansas during May.

This e2 in-depth focuses on why rural communities should focus development efforts on increasing area spending capture in our new thought paper, Rural Retailing. We also share stories about communities using innovative rural retail models to grow their economies in our accompanying podcast episode, Rural Retailing and Area Spending Capture.