Impact Stories
Storytelling is in our DNA. We’ve celebrated the champions and change-makers dedicated to growing and sustaining entrepreneurial ecosystems in their communities and beyond.
A Forward Cities Farewell
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Seeking Forward Thinkers: A Call for Partnership
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2025: A Year of Strategic Growth and Economic Mobility
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Featured Program
The E3 Durham program employed a community-centered model that reduces the cost of doing business for Durham entrepreneurs. Local Navigators — trusted advisors who have extensive relationships in the community — provided guidance to enrolled entrepreneurs at no-cost.
Community Impact
Strengthening a local entrepreneurial ecosystem requires intention, stakeholder alignment, local leadership, timely data, trust-building, authentic community engagement, and an actionable plan that can be invested in and sustained over time. We worked with cities to help implement their plans, track their data, amplify emerging stories, and identify public and private resources to sustain this work over time.
Support the Vision
Our work has been generously supported by local and national foundations as well as corporations and individuals who share a commitment to growing and sustaining entrepreneurial communities across the country.