If you’re looking for remarkable potential for business growth, inclusiveness, access, openness, and support – look no further than the Midwest.

The key challenge is to ensure that education is equitable in order to meet the needs of ALL students and the needs of tomorrow’s workforce.

In this rural county in upstate New York, with “more cows than people,” employment prospects are limited. But, entrepreneurs graduating from training to refine and launch their businesses are empowered to take control of their own destinies and create jobs for fellow residents in the process.

As college and KSI program grads donned caps and gowns, 120 diverse young professionals begin to create their own legacies.

Project Choice captured the nation’s imagination by offering four classes of Westport High School students the support they needed to access and pay for education after high school.

The energy, enthusiasm, and commitment exhibited from each and every country at this year’s Global Entrepreneurship Congress was incredibly impressive and humbling. Read about our five key takeaways.

As they roll down the highway home from Entrefest in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Victor Hwang and Aaron North have a meta conversation: Is entrepreneurial success found in the journey or the destination – and what does that mean for those trying to instill an entrepreneurial mindset in students?

Philanthropy’s role should be to help bring to scale some of the ideas already in motion within communities, connect communities together, share lessons, and provide the investments necessary to accelerate change.

Education is ripe for innovation, but how do we scale successful models to prepare the majority, not a privileged few, for a rapidly transforming economy?

The real-life stories of the day-to-day issues entrepreneurs face are most vividly told in the offices, workshops, and garages where they work, and the Kauffman Foundation is venturing out to hear them.