Maker Village KC is the brainchild of local makers Nick Ward-Bopp and Sam Green, who launched the community workshop in 2014 after rehabilitating their building at 31st and Cherry in Kansas City, Mo. “We saw a need from our neighbors in midtown and beyond that really don’t have access to equipment like this on an as-needed basis,” Ward-Bopp said. “At the time, there were several other boarded-up buildings at the…

After 10 years in Kansas City’s entrepreneurial community and as a mom of three, Stephanie Zamora saw something severely lacking in local business circles: resources for parent entrepreneurs. So in November 2018, she started up her business SymbioBiz, where her team provides parent entrepreneurs with the support they need to run their businesses. “SymbioBiz is a nonprofit organization that takes underutilized spaces in the community and then matches them to…