Tag: financial

When your hobby takes a leap: Turning passion into a business

admin — Tue, 14 May 2024 16:11:01 +0000

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Latasha Randle is a Strategy & Small Business Program Manager at H&R Block, a company founded and headquartered in downtown Kansas City.

Many of us have hobbies that spark joy and help us unwind from the stresses of everyday life. From gardening, painting, knitting, and cooking, hobbies reflect our inner passions and interests. But what happens when your hobby evolves into something more?

$11M renovation in the works for historic hub of Black entrepreneurship; project ties into 18th Street pedestrian mall plans

admin — Thu, 09 May 2024 15:56:48 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was originally published by AltCap, an ally to underestimated entrepreneurs that offers financing to businesses and communities that traditional lenders do not serve.

For more than one hundred years, the Lincoln Building has served as a cornerstone of commerce and community in the 18th and Vine district.

Bardavon’s latest funding round gets a KC boost, supports Recovery+ new product rollout

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 19:28:45 +0000

A transformative product release from one of Kansas City’s leading healthtech companies coincides with a meaningful funding round — marking a new chapter in workers’ compensation, as well as for Bardavon’s recently announced new CEO, the company said.

Kauffman Foundation revises funding priorities to three key areas, sharing first public details of its new strategic focus

admin — Tue, 30 Apr 2024 18:24:50 +0000

A refreshed vision for the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation aims to make Kansas City a national model for equitable economic mobility, dismantling systemic barriers and setting generations of historically under-resourced communities on the path to prosperity, according to just-released details from the influential organization.

Closing the funding and resource gap for women-owned businesses

admin — Mon, 29 Apr 2024 15:33:28 +0000

Editor’s note: The opinions expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. Latasha Randle is a Strategy & Small Business Program Manager at Block Advisors by H&R Block, which was founded in Kansas City and boasts its headquarters in downtown KC.

There’s Something Suspicious About this Art Deco Coffee Shop Inside a FiDi Bank

admin — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 11:00:00 +0000

Inside Conwell Coffee Hall, located within the historic banking hall of 20 Exchange Place, everything is not as it seems!

Former college startup founders reunite for brunch concept: Why they jumped at this franchise twist

admin — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 19:55:48 +0000

WICHITA, Kansas — Jacob O’Connor and Jon Peterson — two former Wichita State students turned entrepreneurs — are teaming up once again, this time for brunch, they shared.

The high school friends and co-founders of 618 Ventures and Player Card are partnering with a mentor to bring the upscale, Orlando-based brunch concept Another Broken Egg Cafe to Wichita later this summer.

Here’s how five urban renewal projects could transform blighted areas across KCMO

admin — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:38:46 +0000

A new film studio incubator coming to Troost Avenue. The evolution of the former Marlborough Elementary School. Adapting a towering, historic downtown building for modern needs.

This series of revitalization projects involving blighted properties heralds a new era of growth and prosperity for Kansas City, said Dan Moye, noting each newly funded urban renewal initiative embodies a commitment to transforming neglected spaces, fostering economic opportunity, and promoting community development.

Female founders: Tips for infusing capital into your dreams

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 21:08:52 +0000

Editor’s note: The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. The following is a paid thought leadership piece from Terri Roberts Munsell, McQueary Schumm Munsell Group at Morgan Stanley.

Today, women own four out of every 10 businesses in the U.S.(*1)

KCMO investing $900K in entrepreneur support as advocates push for more funding

admin — Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:19:07 +0000

The City of Kansas City, Missouri, has budgeted an $900,000 investment in its KC BizCare Office as part of a broader plan to better support the metro’s entrepreneur community

While advocates from within Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community love the city as much as its next fan, they acknowledge it can be a tough place to get a business started — and keep it afloat.

The Law Students Who Lunched at Nobu

admin — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 14:00:19 +0000

Photo: Mark Peterson/Corbis via Getty Image

For New York’s anniversary, we are celebrating the history of the city’s restaurants with a series of posts throughout the month. Read all of our “Who Ate Where” stories here.

Growing movement by Black farmers seeds plan to honor land, ancestors while cultivating better health

admin — Fri, 19 Apr 2024 15:36:51 +0000

Dina Newman wanted to reclaim Black growers’ seat at the table — helping an overlooked community in Kansas City create their own healthy and affordable food systems to nourish themselves.

KCK milkman reclaims his passion for painting; splattering pop art portraits of KC sports stars, celebrity icons

admin — Tue, 16 Apr 2024 16:01:56 +0000

While his pieces don’t feature happy, little trees, David Alston’s pop culture-inspired portraits still reflect the influence of the iconic painter Bob Ross.

About a decade ago, a chance viewing of the well-known artist’s PBS show “The Joy of Painting” — Alston’s youngest son accidentally left the TV on before leaving for school — inspired the Kansas City, Kansas, creator to pick up a paintbrush again.

Meet the winners of KC’s first grants for micro-businesses; $55K awarded to women of color

admin — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 19:17:05 +0000

A newly launched collaboration between entrepreneur support efforts announced Thursday its first batch of grant winners — positioning four Kansas City micro-businesses for greater success amid a near-universally challenging start for the year.

Startup Weekend winners could have a billion-dollar solution for struggling taxpayers

admin — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 18:16:29 +0000

Organizers of Missouri Startup Weekend predicted this year’s winner could be poised to be the competition’s next billion-dollar alumni.

Solvtax presented the weekend’s winning pitch: a solution for avoiding financial implications through better business and personal property tax management.

The idea struck a chord with entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs in both the audience and judge’s panel — earning the first-place prize of $15,000 and an opportunity for $150,000-plus in investment resources.