Around a table in Texas, I saw Kansas City’s truly uncommon dedication to learn together for education.

The Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Building Playbook, Draft 1.0, highlights ways to grow and nurture entrepreneurial communities, and provides an online entry-point for collaboration among real practitioners in the field. We invite you to share your comments, stories, critiques and ideas.

Teachers get the experience of a lifetime exploring places like Egypt, Dubai, and the Great Wall of China to bridge the gap between the classroom and the outside world for their students.

A new report shows that startups are growing faster and reaching scale at higher rates than in recent years.

A startup visa would allow immigrant founders who met certain criteria to be entrepreneurs in America and later become permanent residents – keeping their talents here where they will benefit other American entrepreneurs.

To spur more capital investment opportunities and bridge the funding gap for the makers, doers, and dreamers in the heartland, the Kauffman Foundation in 2016 launched a scholarship program with Kauffman Fellows, the independent, two-year venture capital and leadership program based in Silicon Valley.

This past summer, Kansas City’s education community got an injection of unusual talent in areas such as data analysis, operations, and finance.

Why has entrepreneurship declined so drastically in America? What works best to empower entrepreneurs and reverse that decline? Answering these questions requires a fresh approach to research—and the right talent on the team.

We need to focus on creating more college graduates, not just creating more college students.

The Foundation makes significant investments to help our key city assets increase long-term financial stability, most recently through a grant to the Truman Library Institute.