Detroit –Sept. 2, 2016 – W. David Tarver, Founder and Board President of The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative (UEI), a non-profit corporation offering programming and resources that encourage, facilitate and enable the development of for-profit business solutions to address the needs of urban communities, was a guest on Michigan’s Comcast Newsmakers on Aug. 18. Comcast Newsmakers […]
Delivering pallets of water was the easy part. Now it gets messy, as various players jockey for position, balance competing interests and struggle with plans to repair the city and its people after a crisis like no other. Source: Beyond bottled water: Huge checks, slow progress test patience in Flint
I’m proud to be bringing a very special event to Flint this Fall. This event, the Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium, aims to improve the quality of life in Flint and similar communities by putting the focus on business innovation and investment. This will be the third year we have organized the symposium. In 2014, we held the […]
Good News! As of December 21, 2015, the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative, Inc. is recognized by the IRS as a tax-exempt not-for-profit corporation. This certification will permit tax-deductible donations to the organization, and will allow UEI to be even more effective in carrying out its work on behalf of entrepreneurs who wish to make a real […]
Michigan State President Lou Anna K. Simon and University of Detroit Mercy President Antoine Garibaldi to discuss universities’ role in urban innovation at Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium 2015 in Detroit Oct. 23 Media Contact: Barbara Fornasiero, EAFocus Communications, 248.260.8466; barbara@eafocus.com Detroit, Mich. – Oct. 5, 2015 –The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative is pleased to announce Michigan State University President Lou Anna […]
Major event sponsors also announced; event theme is “Shock the (Urban) World” Media Contact: Barbara Fornasiero, EAFocus Communications, 248.260.8466; barbara@eafocus.com Detroit, Mich. –Sept. 14, 2015 –The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative is pleased to announce Miguel McKelvey, co-founder and chief creative officer of New York-based company WeWork, which provides workspace, community and services around the world, will […]
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