Tag: Heartland Challenge

KC team developing tool to get low-income entrepreneurs online (and it just got a $240K boost)

By Tommy Felts / September 17, 2022

A collaborative project to “bridge the gap” in Kansas City’s digital divide secured one of the 2022 Heartland Challenge grants from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. PCs for People Kansas City (formerly Connecting for Good), in partnership with The Usher Garage and No-Where Consultants, will receive $240,000 in funding to be used over two years…

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Dan Smith, The Porter House KC

Heartland Challenge: Meet Kauffman’s 17 grantees (and the projects getting funded)

By Tommy Felts / July 15, 2020

The only way to regain lost momentum in the Heartland’s cities and rural areas: work together to develop, catalyze, and expand inclusive programs and strengthen regional ecosystems, said Melissa Roberts Chapman. A new portfolio of 17 grantee organizations is up to the challenge, she added. “Entrepreneurship represents an opportunity for this region to reverse a…

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