Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

  • Kauffman Foundation pledges $5M to UMKC campaign for entrepreneurship

    Last week the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced a $5 million pledge to The Campaign for UMKC, an initiative to build a new Free Enterprise Center on the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Volker campus. The funds will be used to help boost entrepreneurship and economic development efforts…

  • 1 Million Cups presenters now have chance to reach 3.5 million listeners

    Soon, you’ll be able to drink your 1 Million Cups over the radio. Starting July 9, presenters will be selected from the member cities’ weekly events across the country to compete on a new show, Dream Big America, during Doug Stephan’s nationally syndicated Good Day program. Three entrepreneurs …

  • Can you find your company in Swiss researcher’s Kansas City tech galaxy?

    A short time ago in a galaxy very, very close to home, a Swiss professor began charting the development of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community over the past 50-plus years. Funded by the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the University of Bern’s Heike Mayer has drawn a “Kansas City Tech Galaxy” map, announced today, which visualizes data…

  • Hack of the Sexes to test hypothesis April 26-27

    Organizers of the inaugural Hack of the Sexes competition are using the 24-hour hackathon model as a testing ground for its hypothesis that mixed-gender teams produce better results on the way to a better city. From April 26-27 at Kauffman Labs, anyone with a passion for their community—designers, artists, developers, engineers and others—can decide whether…

  • VC film “Something Ventured” to air throughout region starting Sunday

    “Something Ventured,” a documentary tracing the creation of the venture capital industry, is scheduled to air on public television stations in Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri and Kansas starting Sunday. Featuring interviews with notable venture capitalists, the film showcases the stories behind the fundings of tech industry legends, such as Apple, Intel, Cisco and Atari. The film…

  • Paper explores assets, obstacles for KC entrepreneurial community

    The Kansas City area in the last half-decade has seen increases in entrepreneurial exits, funding for young companies and collective energy behind entrepreneurship, a paper released earlier this month asserts, but obstacles still stand in the way of Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community moving from “fragmented to collaborative.” The paper, “Entrepreneurial Community in Kansas City: From…

  • New CEO McDonnell on Kauffman’s role in KC, helping Midwest startups

    As Tom McDonnell takes the helm of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation as its new president and CEO, he is determined to help the $1.8 billion foundation increase its visibility and build on existing strengths without veering from its focus on entrepreneurship and education. The Kansas City, Mo.-based Kauffman Foundation announced on Dec. 4 that…

  • New Kauffman CEO McDonnell on DST’s roots, lunches with Mr. K

    Tom McDonnell is making a move from one Kansas City institution to another. In September, McDonnell revealed plans to retire at year’s end from his role as chief executive of DST Systems, and on Dec. 4 the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced that McDonnell would become its new president and CEO, effective Jan. 1. McDonnell…

  • Welcome to the Kauffman Foundation, one of SPN’s Kansas City Launch Partners

    Today we’re excited to introduce our final sponsor among an amazing group of businesses and organizations …

  • Kauffman tabs DST’s McDonnell as CEO, names Kreamer board chair

    Tom McDonnell, a man who for months has been at the center of considerable speculation about the next president and CEO of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, has been tabbed to take the reins of the Kansas City, Mo.-based organization, which has an asset base of close to $2 billion and focuses on entrepreneurship and…