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  • Microfinance helps Indian women borrow – with dignity

    Annie Banerji

    December 12, 2022 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: India

    Microfinance institutions in India are providing low-cost loans to women in remote areas that typically only have access to loan sharks. The women are using the money to break poverty cycles and start their own businesses.

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  • Artists heal their businesses and communities in the wake of devastating floods

    Rowan Roudebush

    December 01, 2022 |

    WMMT |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Letcher County, Kentucky

    Local art businesses, like dance studios, record stores, and tattoo parlors, that have historically served as community centers for local creatives are working with community members to help rebuild their facilities after catastrophic flooding.

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  • Felled City Trees Could Grow a New Lumber Economy

    Alex Brown

    November 29, 2022 |

    The Pew Charitable Trusts |

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    Response Location: United States

    Groups and businesses across the country are encouraging cities to sell or recycle urban wood instead of sending it to a landfill. Many have started small businesses that turn the wood into products like furniture.

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  • How investments in Black businesses can help close KC's racial wealth gap

    Mili Mansaray

    November 25, 2022 |

    The Kansas City Beacon |

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    Response Location: United States, Kansas City, Missouri

    Generating Income For Tomorrow, or GIFT, works to foster economic prosperity and wealth in Kansas City’s Black community by providing grants to Black-owned businesses. Since its launch, GIFT has distributed $687,000 to 42 Black businesses and GIFT recipients have so far created more than 60 new jobs.

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  • Cannabis cloud kitchen helps entrepreneurs break into the industry

    Carrie Graham

    November 02, 2022 |

    el Don |

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    Response Location: United States, Santa Ana, California

    My Green Network is a “cannabis cloud kitchen” that offers a shared-use facility for those looking to enter the cannabis industry launch their small businesses. It also provides business needs like legal advice, meeting space, storage, distribution and help applying for state and local permits.

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  • Saving business and upgrading the city: how entrepreneurs get relocation help in Ivano-Frankivsk

    Maria Smyk

    October 03, 2022 |

    Рубрика (Rubryka) |

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    Response Location: Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk

    The Save Business Now initiative in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine, is helping businesses to relocate from dangerous areas of the country. Businesses fill out an online application about their needs so the organization can help them through the process of looking for a new location and connect them with experts and other businesses for support.

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  • Through a radio program in Osun State, low-income Nigerians are learning business skills

    Rasheed Adebiyi Abdulgafar Adebayo

    August 27, 2022 |

    Social Voices |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Osun

    Listeners of the Nigerian radio program KaraKata have access to business education, financial literacy information, and empowerment — as well as crowdsourced seed funding to get their own business off the ground. Listeners call in to make a case for why they should become a beneficiary, and the program has awarded funds to 1,250 people since it began distributing seed money in 2017.

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  • Could more entrepreneurs help revive the heartland?

    Mike Sherry

    June 06, 2022 |

    The Kansas Leadership Center Journal (KLC Journal) |

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    Response Location: United States, Ord, Nebraska

    The community in Ord, Nebraska, revived their town by supporting and encouraging entrepreneurs and making it easier to start small businesses.

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  • A Night Market Creates Opportunity for Black Communities

    Morgan Florsheim

    May 03, 2022 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Nashville, Tennessee

    An evening market in Nashville provides a location for local Black business owners to sell goods and gain exposure.

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  • The Little Schooner That Might

    Lissa Harris

    February 21, 2022 |

    The River |

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    Response Location: United States, New York

    The Apollonia, a sail freight ship, carries a variety of cargoes on the Hudson River to waterfront markets and places where individual customers can pick up pre-ordered goods without burning fossil fuels. Much of the transportation involves transporting goods from local farms to local small businesses, all aimed at building a zero-carbon economy. The Appolonia uses fuel less than 5% of the time, consuming less than 20 gallons of fuel to move over 2619.99 ton-miles of major cargoes.

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