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NWA VENTURE TEAMThe NWA Venture Team is an initiative led by the Community Venture Foundation and Startup Junkie Consulting with the buy in and support of world class partners (see here) like Hayseed Ventures, all together focused on supporting and fostering the NWA entrepreneurship and innovation ecosystem. Community Venture Foundation is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with a board comprised of c-suite leadership from local ventures in addition to community builders. Startup Junkie Consulting is a global social venture HQ'd in NWA.
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SCALEUP OZARKSScaleUp Ozarks is designed to help grow existing small businesses with average annual revenues of $150,000 to $500,000 while enhancing the local entrepreneurial ecosystem. Its focus is on startups that show the potential to produce measurable economic impact and local job growth. ScaleUp Ozarks combines a 16-week entrepreneurial education program with mentorship, increased access to capital, and networking opportunities.
Funded by the U.S. Small Business Administration and led by Startup Junkie Consulting and Community Venture Foundation. |
E-TEEN VENTURESE-Teen Ventures engages and empowers students by teaching them how to start and run a business. Students learn and practice through workshops, pitch competitions, and local events. The primary program is a highly competitive, one week camp over the summer where students learn through interaction and experiences shared from inspiring local businesses and successful startup founders from around NWA. At the end of the week, students apply what they learn through a team pitch competition.
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WOMEN IN ENTREPRENEURSHIPRegardless of race, women are half as likely as men to own employer businesses, which is why Community Venture Foundation hosts several events, programs, and workshops specifically aimed at supporting those women in NWA. By creating opportunities to foster collaboration and connections, Community Venture Foundation is bridging the gap to help women overcome the barriers and challenges faced as a female entrepreneur.
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AR GIRLS CODEAR Girls Code inspires young women to pursue a future in the STEM fields by providing free one-day workshops to girls ages 10 to 18 to teach the basics of HTML, CSS, and javascript. Girls not only learn technical skills that they can immediately apply, but are enveloped in an environment that fosters relationships and builds a supportive community of other females interested in coding. We are the NWA Chapter of 100 Girls of Code.
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OZARK REGIONAL INNOVATION CLUSTER (ORIC)The Ozarks Regional Innovation Cluster (ORIC) is a federally funded initiative through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Regional Innovation Cluster Program led by Startup Junkie Consulting and Community Venture Foundation. The ORIC cluster is geographically based in the nine county EDA defined region of NW Arkansas, NE Oklahoma, and SW Missouri, with the epicenter of the cluster being NW Arkansas. The cluster is focused on ventures innovating around and within retail, supply chain, logistics, and food. In addition, the cluster is focused on supporting ventures in the underserved community that include those ventures led by women, minorities, and veterans.
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STARTUP CITY OF THE SOUTHStartup City of the South is part of the City of Fayetteville's economic development plan to expand and grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Community Venture Foundation is a critical partner in working with Startup Junkie Consulting to execute the goals of the Startup City of the South initiative. The goals include: supporting a collaborative environment, increasing high-tech job growth, creating innovative spaces and programs to support entrepreneurs, expanding entrepreneurship education, supporting the growing local artisan food and craft-beverage industry, and supporting talent attraction, retention, and development.
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COFFEE + ECoffee+E is a bi-monthly morning networking event. The event gives entrepreneurs, creatives, inventors, and innovators a time to establish relationships and engage in creative collisions.
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STARTUP CULTURE IN THE CLASSROOMStartup Culture in the Classroom is designed to help K-12 educators find breakthroughs in the teaching standards and harness the possibilities of an entrepreneurial mindset. It provides educators the opportunity to gain insight and to interact with successful, local startups and to learn how to implement entrepreneurship everyday in their classrooms. This program is in partnership with the Bessie B. Moore Center for Economic Education.
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UPCOMING EVENTS
E-Teen Ventures BentonvilleJune 26-30th, 2017
Free high school entrepreneurship summer camp. Learn how to start & run a business through training and interaction with local, successful startup founders from around NWA. At the end of the week, compete for the opportunity to take home a cash prize. Click Here to Learn More. |
E-Teen Ventures BentonvilleJuly 10-14th, 2017
Free high school entrepreneurship summer camp. Learn how to start & run a business through training and interaction with local, successful startup founders from around NWA. At the end of the week, compete for the opportunity to take home a cash prize. Click Here to Learn More. |
