Lawrence, Kansas is home to a wealth of programs and organizations that support entrepreneurship and small business owners but sometimes these resources are not well known to those who are seeking assistance. Our mission with the City of Lawrence and NetWork Kansas is to better showcase the Lawrence network and more quickly connect those who are seeking business assistance with the organizations that can best help them.

For your organization to be included in this exciting effort, please complete the following form to highlight the resources and services that your organization provides to entrepreneurs and business owners. This will ensure that entrepreneurs and business owners who are looking for the services that you provide are quickly and efficiently referred to you for assistance.

This project will focus on identifying and recruiting primarily nonprofit, educational, or government resource partners.

At times, resource partners may include some for-profit organizations such as incubators, accelerators, coworking spaces and equity providers. Inclusion in the network will be at the discretion of City of Lawrence and NetWork Kansas.

This network does NOT include for-profit resources such as bankers, accountants, lawyers, insurance agents, management consultants. While these resources are an important part of an overall entrepreneurial ecosystem, especially for high-growth companies, this can be difficult to “vet” and not part of this project at this time.

Becoming a partner is easy:

1. Be an organization that offers programs or resources for entrepreneurs and small businesses
2. Complete the Partner Intake Form below
3. Agree to:

• Allow NetWork Kansas / City of Lawrence to market your organization and services
• Be responsive to entrepreneurs referred from NetWork Kansas
• Promote the NetWork Kansas community and website, with reciprocal website links, if possible
• Help NetWork Kansas identify ways to track small business success so we can measure and publicize the impact of entrepreneurial support in the community

4. NetWork Kansas will work with you to build an accurate profile of your programs for the website.

For questions or more information, please contact Sam Camp ([email protected]) or Jenn Laird ([email protected]) .