Creative Planning
Mallouk family’s $5.1M investment will welcome children of all abilities to KC’s signature downtown park
A $5.1 million contribution from Kansas City’s most-recent Entrepreneur of the Year broadens the spectrum of play for many young people who too often find themselves without a space to belong.
Moving humanity forward isn’t always pleasant, Block founder says, urging innovators to keep crossing the line
What’s so cool about getting up every day to do something that you don’t know is going to work? Jim McKelvey asked a crowd gathered for the Rockhurst University Leadership Series about the realities of forging ahead as an entrepreneur.
Entrepreneur of the Year honorees stepped through a wormhole of fate: Here’s what they found in KC
The ultra successful all share one common influence, said Peter Mallouk: luck. And for the president and CEO of Creative Planning, good fortune has revolved around Kansas City. It all started when his parents left Egypt and ended up in Brookside, he told a crowd Wednesday evening during the 39th University of Missouri-Kansas City Entrepreneur…
Trailblazer on Troost among honored innovators for UMKC’s Entrepreneur of the Year Awards
This year’s signature Bloch School celebration — set for Dec. 3 — heralds the efforts and successes of experts in grassroots community-building, financial planning, DNA science Earning the top social entrepreneurship award from UMKC is more than just the greatest recognition Father Justin Mathews has ever received, the faith leader-turned-community innovator said; it’s validation that…
Hope starts at home: Economic mobility, inclusion hinge on realities of identity, panel says
Editor’s note: The Junior League of Kansas City — through its C3KC conference — is an advertiser with Startland News. An important step in bridging the wealth gap and building equity is meeting people at their level of readiness, Terrell Jolly shared. “Because if you do not, they will inconvenience you in some kind of way and that’s the sad…
