Growing Kansas Businesses

Congratulations to the 15 businesses that received funding from NetWork Kansas during October.

This e2 in-depth features Don Macke and Kimberlee Spillers is "Tourism-Led Development, Opportunities for Rural America." The feature provides strategies for growing a more competitive, higher value, diverse, and resilient economy around tourism and people attraction.

In 2016, the Topeka Community Foundation recognized an opportunity to leverage its role of providing donor services, performing grant making and convening the community to lead on issues of importance. Through economic development philanthropy, the foundation began mobilizing attention and funding on some of the challenges facing the Topeka community.