New Webinar Series!

Join Forward Cities for the second installment of our inaugural E3 Scorecard conversation series on May 12 at 1 pm. We will explore two powerful ways Entrepreneurial Support Organizations and communities can catalyze and accelerate the potential of PROGRAMS in their ecosystems: through accessible onramps to launching a new business and by clear pathways to growth in various sectors.

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Move Your Community Forward

Forward Cities offers several opportunities to move your community forward. From long-term engagements to ABIDE training sessions, we have comprehensive solutions designed to build or strengthen your entrepreneurial ecosystem.

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Collaborators in Equitable Ecosystem Building

Forward Cities is fortunate to have a growing number of funding and ecosystem building partners to help us deepen and expand our work.

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ESHIP Communities

The ESHIP Communities program is a community-driven approach for building entrepreneurial ecosystems that foster inclusion, relationships, collaboration, and social capital across networks of entrepreneurs and those who support them. The program supports the creation and evaluation of a repeatable, bottom-up approach to building and strengthening entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Welcome to Forward Cities

Forward Cities is a national nonprofit equipping communities and regions to grow and sustain more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems.

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Forging Forward

An original podcast about the collaborative work of entrepreneurial ecosystem building for more equitable and resilient economies. From the minds at Forward Cities.

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Impact Stories

Storytelling is in our DNA. We celebrate the champions and change-makers dedicated to growing and sustaining more equitable entrepreneurial ecosystems in their communities and beyond.

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ESHIP Rio Grande Council Members React to Newly Released Food Asset Survey

By Erin Ortigoza and Eliza Salmon
March 23, 2021
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Grit and Grace: How Black Entrepreneurs Are Finding Success in Pittsburgh

By Victoria Snyder, M.Ed, MSLPA
March 12, 2021
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Through the Pandemic, Long Beach’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Grows

By Laura Merryfield
March 12, 2021
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E3 Learning Network

We believe that learning and the collaboration of cross-sector, cross-city talent drives growth and innovation. When your city joins our National Learning Network, you become connected to an all-star community of practitioners, innovators, and policy makers committed to creating more resilient and equitable ecosystems and economies for all.

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Community Impact

Strengthening a local equitable 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 work 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.

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Our work is generously supported by local and national foundations as well as corporations and individuals who share our commitment to fostering more equitable entrepreneurial communities across the country. If you are interested in supporting us directly please click here.  If you’d like to talk further about how you or your organization can best support Forward Cities’ mission please contact us.  Thank you!

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