determination inc
Local nonprofit startup Determination Inc. has announced Kansas City’s first entrepreneurship competition for formerly incarcerated citizens. Determination Inc. started in 2018 with the goal of helping people with criminal records through entrepreneurship. Its newly announced event, Rise Up, Get Started, aims to provide resources for those individuals in the Kansas City community. The Rise Up, Get Started Entrepreneurship Celebration will take place at 7 p.m. May 30 at Plexpod Westport…
Crux KC
Moving forward requires a little speed, and three Kansas City executives have teamed up to put the pedal down with Crux-Xcelerate. Rick Kahle, former president of Lockton’s Kansas City Employee Benefits Office, Melea McRae, founder and CEO of Crux KC and former CMO of the KC Chamber, and Dave Johnson, former sales executive at Sprint and YRC Worldwide, launched their new business venture, Crux-Xcelerate, in January 2019. The new business is a…
The Kansas City Strategic Partnership Program celebrated 25 diverse small business-owners April 4 as they graduated from its intensive six-month course. Founded by Edgemoor and the Clark | Weitz | Clarkson joint venture, the KC SPP is a free, MBA-style program for entrepreneurs of women- and minority-owned businesses (WBEs and MBEs). The program’s courses instruct on topics such as accounting, project management and partnership development. Edgemoor, in partnership with CWC and architect…
About 30,000 votes determined 13 winners for excellence in website, digital experience, creativity, design, user experience and functionality — among them is Kansas City’s Lead Bank. The award comes as part of Progress‘ Sitefinity 2019 Website of the Year Awards.  Winners were selected based on the highest number of votes received during the public voting process. This year, 39 websites developed using Progress Sitefinity were nominated across 13 categories, and Lead…
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce spent the day April 5 wheeling around Kansas City to deliver some good news to its 2019 Top 10 Small Business winners. After keeping the list of awardees under wraps, the KC Chamber showed up at the winning companies’ offices to break the news with confetti, champagne and balloons. The Top 10 Small Businesses were selected from a pool of 80 nominees. As…