...for the Community Capital Fund. Aspiring entrepreneurs and business owners who began their business on or after Jan. 1, 2019, are eligible. Funds are intended for the direct support of... Read more
announcement of the Kansas City Minority Business Resiliency Grant. The fund is expected to award up to $5,000 to at least 20 racial/ethnic minority-owned businesses. The grants are funded by... Read more
fund, having completed a first closing in January that successfully secured more than 90 percent of its $40 million target. The fund comes as the result of a merger between... Read more
...speaks to the quality of young companies that we’re breeding.” Launched in early 2020, NXTSTAGE was made possible by a $250,000 grant from the Talent Ecosystem Fund at the Wichita... Read more
IDEA Funds money helps catalyze that private investment to help companies start and grow,” he said. Investing in the IDEA Funds program has allowed MTC to build and maintain a... Read more
...said. “New networks create funding. Funding creates opportunity. Opportunity creates equity.” Click here for photos and funding results from the 2019 Pure Pitch Rally. The one-of-a-kind Kansas City event prides... Read more
...Meals Project isn’t going anywhere,” he said of what the future holds for the initiative, which is currently seeking funding to fuel restaurants and non-profit kitchens to and enable them... Read more
No health, no hustle, said Vu Radley, detailing MADE MOBB’s recently launched effort to fund free therapy sessions for members of the Black community. “Mental health isn’t something that’s talked... Read more
...action,” she said of the origins of the KC Mutual Aid Fund organized by Merry Outlaw. “For the people who have money to donate, the pandemic is sort of over... Read more
...Just 200. Yes, just 200. Less than one funded per month, in 20 years. Compare that to the 25,000-plus founders that were funded in 2019 alone, to the tune of... Read more
