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Uncommon Voices 2020

This report takes up the relationship among motherhood, caregiving, the persistent wage penalty it carries for women, employment, and entrepreneurship.

The Kauffman Foundation will continue to work alongside others to push for changes needed to dismantle the broken systems of inequity that hold too many back and that prevent America from fulfilling its promise.

New IEDC initiative introduces entrepreneurship credentials for economic development pros.

As the nation celebrates Labor Day this week, American workers who make one of the largest contributions to the economy continue to pay a price. Our readers call out the career obstacles and wage penalties facing women, and they offer creative solutions for changing the system.

To give all entrepreneurs an equal shot, they will need equal access to capital.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones spoke with Carlos Moreno about grace, mentorship, and equity in education – Big Picture Learning students built on the discussion with their own conversation.

With schools closed during the pandemic, an alliance of nonprofit leaders showed quiet heroics by taking the risk to set up learning centers without funding in place, or an end in sight.

In a series of three conversations, women entrepreneurs and women who work in entrepreneur support, come together to discuss the significant impact of women on the economy; what personal and policy support could do for women and families struggling to combine career and caregiving; and, how all of it manifests in their own lives.

When entrepreneurial ecosystem builders podcast, the advice, resources, and conversations that used to happen in person between entrepreneurs, investors, and local government – still happen.