Flint’s revival begins with you! [embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDOVd-eG42o[/embedyt] As part of the 2016 Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative activities, we want to hear your idea – your “pitch” – for making life better in Flint, Michigan. Whether your pitch is an idea for a new business, or a community improvement suggestion, or a gripe about a problem you want to […]
Read more >In preparation for #UES2016, the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative wants to hear directly from Flint citizens regarding their business ideas, community improvement suggestions, and gripes, and will give recognition and prizes to the best presentations.
Read more >[embedyt] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQdyaUxgUT8[/embedyt] David Tarver, UEI founder and president, discusses the 2016 Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium, to be held in Flint, Michigan on October 19-21, with legendary broadcaster Chuck Stokes on his show “Spotlight on the News.” Tarver discusses his entrepreneur background, his hopes for Flint, and the benefits that the Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium will bring to […]
Read more >(excerpt) Broadcast September 18, 2016 UEI founder and president David Tarver discusses his entrepreneurial journey, the Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative, and the 2016 Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium to be held in Flint, Michigan on October 19-21.
Read more >In one of the most comprehensive works yet written on the history of inequality and metropolitan development in modern America, author Andrew R. Highsmith uses the case of Flint to explain how the perennial quest for urban renewal contributed to mass suburbanization, racial and economic division, deindustrialization and political fragmentation. Detroit –Sept. 16, 2016 – […]
Read more >Detroit –Sept. 8, 2016 – The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative (UEI), a Mich.-based 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation established in 2015 and offering programming and resources that encourage, facilitate and enable the development of for-profit business solutions to address the needs of urban communities, announces Reggie Barnett, Fred Hall, Karen Lopez and Maria Woodruff-Wright have been appointed […]
Read more >#UES2016 brings business innovators, academics and community leaders together to solve urban problems using for-profit business solutions Detroit –Sept. 8, 2016 –The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative is pleased to announce the details of two new business challenge competitions in conjunction with the third annual Urban Entrepreneurship Symposium, to be held Oct. 19 to 21 […]
Read more >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 […]
Read more >Detroit –Sept. 2, 2016 – The Urban Entrepreneurship Initiative (UEI), a Mich.-based 501(c) (3) non-profit corporation established in 2015 and offering programming and resources that encourage, facilitate and enable the development of for-profit business solutions to address the needs of urban communities, announces Reggie Barnett, Fred Hall, Karen Lopez and Maria Woodruff-Wright have been […]
Read more >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
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