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Growing Entrepreneurial Communities Summit
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Save the Date! May 4-5, 2016, Kansas City
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The Center is partnering with a number of leading entrepreneurial development organizations to host one of the most important gatherings on entrepreneurial ecosystems in 2016. Our Growing Entrepreneurial Communities Summit will bring together leading practitioners working to create and grow entrepreneurial ecosystems in urban and rural places. This working and learning gathering will afford remarkable networking opportunities. Space is limited and we expect the Summit to fill up quickly. To prime your pump for this event, we are sharing a recent article, co-authored with Dr. Tom Lyons and published in Community Development: "Creating Entrepreneurial Communities: building community capacity for ecosystem development."
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Other Center News
Advancing Rural Communities' Economic Success.
The Center and the Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group are partnering to present a pre-conference workshop at the 2016 Council on Foundations annual conference in Washington, D.C. The one-day workshop will take place on Saturday, April 9th. For more information and to register, click here. To learn more about our partnership with Aspen CSG, go to advancingcdp.org.
If you missed our Annual Holiday Reading List in the end-of-the-year chaos, here's the link! We've started 2016 on the right foot, sprucing up our website, so take a look! You'll find a cleaner format but the same great content. Check back often as we add new video content and tools.
Remember, the Center is available for all types of event and training needs. Visit our speakers bureau page for examples of how we can help!
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Field News
Rethinking Your Economy: Lessons From Maine. Check out Erik Page's New Year's blog post to learn how folks in Maine are trying to have a new conversation about economic renewal across the state.
Glass Half Full on Reshoring. Erik Page's (www.entreworks.net) latest blog shares data on declining reshoring trends in the U.S. The hopeful news is the ability of U.S. firms to "capture and manage global supply chains" and, we would add, the entrepreneurial opportunities for rural places to connect to them.
Kauffman's Main Street Entrepreneurship Index. The Kauffman Foundation is a great source of data and research on entrepreneurship. They have just issued a new addition to their index that focuses on "Main Street" Entrepreneurship - established businesses and small business ownership. Coupled with their Startup Activity Report, this data gives an increasingly comprehensive view of entrepreneurship across the states and 40 major metro areas.
Big Business Gets Economic Development Dollars. This study by Good Jobs First documents that big business and business attraction continue to dominate state and local economic development spending in the United States despite an increasing focus on entrepreneurship.
Entrepreneurship: The Future of Cities. This blog post by Jim Clifton with the Gallup Organization focuses on the increasing importance of entrepreneurs as competitive engines for cities.
Youth Entrepreneurship in Kansas. Network Kansas has released a report on its annual Youth Entrepreneurship event; this is interesting reading and a great model for other communities, regions and states.
Entrepreneurship in North Carolina. This OP-ED piece by James H. Johnson Jr. addresses the "shifting entrepreneurial landscape in North Carolina." The Center is working with the North Carolina Rural Center on a cutting edge initiative to grow entrepreneurial communities in rural North Carolina. For more information, contact Don Macke at don@e2mail.org.
Crowdfunding Update. The November 2015 Startup Owl newsletter provides a good review of the recent and upcoming changes to crowdfunding regulations that might impact entrepreneurs.
Access to Capital for the Self-Employed. A recent Atlanta Fed publication shares research into the financing experiences of this important group of entrepreneurs.
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On the Road
Deb Markley will be in...
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New Orleans, LA January 14-15 for a community design meeting in the Lower Ninth Ward
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Portland, OR February 12-13 to present a workshop on Rooting and Capturing Local Wealth: Tools and Strategies to Make it Stick at the New Partners for Smart Growth Conference
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Charleston, WV April 4-6 to conduct training for the Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation partners and grantees
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Washington, D.C. April 8-10 for Advancing Rural Communities' Economic Success pre-COF conference workshop
Don Macke will be in...
- Madison, WI January 11 for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's leadership training
- Red Cloud, NE January 25 for a Heritage Tourism planning session
- Des Moines, IA January 27 for a strategy session with the Iowa Rural Development Council
- Amarillo, TX February 15-18 for a peer learning event hosted by the Amarillo Area Foundation
- Madison, WI February 22 for the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association's second leadership training
- Des Moines, IA February 24-25 for training with the Iowa Community Affiliate Network
- Bozeman, MT March 7 for a strategic planning session with the Montana Farm Bureau Foundation
- Pickaway County, OH March 17 for the Agricultural Summit
- Don will be on the road regularly between February 29 - March 4 conducting Entrepreneurship Workshops for HomeTown Competitiveness Ohio
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The Appalachian Regional Commission is a regional development agency that represents a federal, state and local government partnership. Its mission is to "innovate, partner, and invest to build community capacity and strengthen economic growth" in the 13-state Appalachian Region. For most of 2015, the Center led a team of partners who worked with ARC to gather input from across the Region and develop ARC's 2011-2016 Strategic Plan - Investing in Appalachia's Future. We are proud to have been part of articulating a new investment plan for this important agency and the region it serves.
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Board Spotlight
Shawn Winkler-Rios is the owner of Soloprenur, an online business training and coaching service that supports solo entrepreneurs in building viable, profitable businesses. As a business coach, Shawn focuses on start-up and early stage entrepreneurs. He's also an avid Tweeter with great content for entrepreneurs - follow Shawn @Soloprenur.
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