Tag - E-Community

NetWork Kansas Sponsors the 2021-2022 Youth Entrepreneurship (YEC) Series

Contact: Bailee Henry, Product Manager of E-Community Programs, NetWork Kansas Phone: 785-844-1706 Email: [email protected] NetWork Kansas Sponsors the 2021-2022 Youth Entrepreneurship (YEC) Series Wichita, KS – NetWork Kansas’ Entrepreneurship (E-) Community Partnership announces the 2021-2022 Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (YEC) Series. The YEC Series consists of local-level youth entrepreneurship competitions hosted by volunteers. The goal...

November 22, 2021By Archive, E-Communities, Partners, , 0 CommentsRead more...

e2 In-Depth: New Resident Attraction – Development Opportunities for Rural America

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers

People attraction, development, and retention is an essential element in growing more prosperous rural communities. It is also one of e2’s top 10 likely entrepreneurial development opportunities. When we attract new residents, support resident development, and create communities that are...

November 22, 2021By Blog Categories, E-Communities, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, In the News, News, , 0 CommentsRead more...

e2 In-Depth: Tourism-Led Development, Opportunities for Rural America

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers

This month’s feature paper, Tourism-Led Development, Opportunities for Rural America, provides strategies for growing a more competitive, higher value, diverse, and resilient economy around tourism and people attraction. Read more and listen to the

October 25, 2021By Blog Categories, E-Communities, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, In the News, News, , 0 CommentsRead more...

Partner Feature: Topeka Community Foundation

By NetWork Kansas    

Connecting the Dots between Community Development and Economic Development The Topeka Community Foundation spotlights its impact in new video

In 2016, the Topeka Community Foundation recognized an opportunity to leverage its role of providing donor services, performing grant making and convening the community to lead on issues of...

October 19, 2021By Archive, E-Communities, Entrepreneurship, Funding/Accounting, Partners, 0 CommentsRead more...

e2 In-Depth: Marginalized Rural Americans

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with  Kimberlee Spillers

These days, America seems so divided and too much of rural America’s landscape is challenged by increasingly marginalized populations. In the September feature piece, Marginalized Rural Americans, Economic Development Implications, we discuss some causes and effects of marginalization...

October 11, 2021By Blog Categories, E-Communities, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, In the News, News, , 0 CommentsRead more...

NetWork Kansas, Rural LISC partner to roll-out Verizon Small Business Digital Ready Platform

By NetWork Kansas  

New platform available to support small businesses

NetWork Kansas and Rural LISC are helping to spread the word about a new platform for small business owners: The Verizon Small Business Digital Ready platform. Beginning today, small business owners are able to access the platform through a

October 1, 2021By Archive, E-Communities, Entrepreneurship, Funding/Accounting, Partners, 0 CommentsRead more...

Partner Feature: Sometimes we’re that somebody- A new place for Kansas City, Kansas entrepreneurs to call home

By NetWork Kansas  

“Sometimes we’re that ‘somebody’” A new place for Kansas City, Kansas entrepreneurs to call home

Dr. Donnetta Watson is no stranger to helping entrepreneurs solve challenges. She’s a SCORE mentor, point person of the Kansas City, Kansas Urban Entrepreneurship (E-) Community and is the founder of the National...

September 22, 2021By Archive, E-Communities, Entrepreneurship, Funding/Accounting, Partners, 0 CommentsRead more...

Partner Feature: E-COMMUNITY PROGRAM CROSSES $1.25 MILLION IN SMALL BUSINESS LENDING

By , Interim City Manager, City of Atchison Reprinted with permission View Video

E-Community Program Crosses $1.25 Million in Small Business Lending

In just over four years of operation the Atchison E-Community Program has now closed 27 loans totaling just over $1,250,000 for local small...

August 25, 2021By Archive, E-Communities, Entrepreneurship, Funding/Accounting, Partners, 0 CommentsRead more...

e2 In-Depth: Energizing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building in Keene, New Hampshire

By: Don Macke, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, with Mary Ann Kristiansen

Energizing Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building in Keene, New Hampshire

This month’s downloadable story and podcast episode focuses on Mary Ann and the highly successful efforts by the Center to foster and support entrepreneurs in Southwestern New Hampshire. This...

August 23, 2021By Blog Categories, E-Communities, e2 Entrepreneurial Ecosystems, In the News, News, , 0 CommentsRead more...

NetWork Kansas Welcomes Bailee Henry to Entrepreneurship (E-) Community Partnership Team

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NetWork Kansas Welcomes Bailee Henry to Entrepreneurship (E-) Community Partnership Team

Today, NetWork Kansas announced the hiring of Bailee Henry, who joins the staff as Product Manager, E-Community Programs. In her role, Henry will oversee and manage the work of the Youth Entrepreneurship Challenge (YEC) Series among other responsibilities. “I...

August 18, 2021By Blog Categories, E-Communities, In the News, News, 0 CommentsRead more...