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Proof is in the spending: CEO-to-CEO Challenge yields results in diversifying supply chains

Editor’s note: The following story was sponsored by KC Rising, a regional initiative to help Kansas City grow faster and more intentionally, as part of a campaign to promote its CEO-to-CEO Challenge on supplier diversity.  When she started researching the institutional knowledge at MMC Corp. about working with diverse suppliers, national purchasing director Kelli Fraas found the process was…

GEWKC organizers announce return to Midtown; 2023 base camp set for Westport at Park 39

The metro’s largest educational entrepreneurship event is expected to return to a familiar, but proven setting this fall. Organizers of Global Entrepreneurship Week – Kansas City announced today that main sessions for the 2023 event series will return to Plexpod. GEWKC rotates its location for each year’s massive block of programming with Plexpod Westport at…

Diverse startups are growing in KC, but is equitable funding matching their traction?

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Kansas City Beacon, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and Missouri Business Alert. Click here to read the original story. While Kansas City has ample resources for the growing number of budding entrepreneurs, BIPOC…

‘You Belong Here’: Add these 10 GEW events to your calendar (then keep clicking)

Global Entrepreneurship Week is returning to Kansas City in November with the ability for attendees to build their own week-long schedules from more than 150 planned virtual and in-person sessions. With a theme focused on inclusion, the wide-ranging options offer resources and insight for solopreneurs and small business to scaling startups — regardless of geography….

This North Kansas City hub will be base camp for GEWKC 2022; Deadline for event applications nears

KCSourceLink announced this week that Global Entrepreneurship Week-Kansas City, the metro’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship, has a new base camp for its 15th year. The Nov. 14-20 weeklong event series is setting its main events at iWerx in North Kansas City. Popular nearby businesses like Restless Spirits, Cinder Block Brewery and Chicken N Pickle will…