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Pipeline receives four-year Challenge Grant from Kauffman Foundation
Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship announced this morning that it has received a challenge grant of up to $2.087 million over four years from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to support and enhance programming. Pipeline is a fellowship organization supporting the region’s fastest growing entrepreneurs. Each year up to 13 entrepreneurs are selected for the Fellowship and,…
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Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship returns to KC
The Midwest Symposium on Social Entrepreneurship returns to Kansas City on May 15-16. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC), in collaboration with the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE), are hosting the fifth annual Symposium aimed towards offering a forum to continue the advancement of social…
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FitBark announced as one of 5 U.S. Get in the Ring finalists
KANSAS CITY— FitBark, a KC startup creating an activity monitor for dogs, is one of five finalists for the annual Get in the Ring competition, the Kauffman Foundation announced Tuesday.
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Pipeline announces its expansion into St. Louis
KANSAS CITY—In August, the Kauffman Foundation announced that it will provide another three-year challenge grant of up to $1.435 million to Pipeline to help extend and improve its programming. Now the regional program is expanding its services to St. Louis.
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Share your “big idea” and you could win a ticket to Big Kansas City
Our friends at the Kauffman Foundation want to give one person the opportunity to start their something big by rewarding them a ticket to Big Kansas City 2014. How? It’s easy. Simply tell us what you want to start.
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Applications for this year’s Get in the Ring competition are now open
As of this morning, applications to compete in this year’s “Get in the Ring: The American Startup Clash” pitch competition are open. In order to apply, startups must be under five years old, have a founder who is a U.S. citizen and exhibit a “scalable and innovative business idea or model.”
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Kauffman Foundation announces second Pipeline challenge grant
Since its inception in 2006, Pipeline president and CEO Joni Cobb says the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation has been a supporter and “intellectual partner” of the entrepreneurial leadership organization.
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Wendy Guillies says Kauffman’s focus will be on KC, growing other metros
On Wednesday the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced president and CEO Tom McDonnell will step down effective June 30. While McDonnell will advise the Foundation through the end of the year, vice president of communications Wendy Guillies will serve as Kauffman’s acting president and CEO. A press release stated that a new multi-year strategic plan…
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Watch Kauffman’s State of Entrepreneurship live on Feb. 12
It’s that time of year again: The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation‘s fifth-annual State of Entrepreneurship Address is set for 11 a.m. CST on Feb. 12. The address will be streamed live from the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., and will begin with the Foundation’s president and CEO Tom McDonnell presenting the state of entrepreneurship in America.…
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Kauffman’s Founders School helps entrepreneurs “cut through the noise”
Startup founders have a lot of advice and information to digest daily. When hearing from friends, investors and mentors, watching videos and presentations and reading articles and books, all about the different challenges in building a successful company, it can be hard to know what’s what. The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation wants to help by…