Becoming a certified CO.STARTERS facilitator takes a lot of work! We know that you’ve dedicated great time and thought to the process and are deserving of recognition. Be proud of achieving the CO.STARTERS Certified status and share it with the world! Here are some suggestions on how you can share your accomplishment: Print, frame, [...]
Learn about the online community education platform used as a support tool for CO.STARTERS programs.
Use these optional add-on sessions to customize the CO.STARTERS Core program to best meet your needs.
"We want joy to be seen as a human right, not something accessible based on privilege."
As the City of Greenville, South Carolina experiences unprecedented growth, Village Launch ensures its more vulnerable populations aren't left behind. The city of Greenville is changing. The South Carolina city is bringing in billions of dollars each year in investment, mostly brought in by high-profile economic development groups. Tech [...]
Our best tips on how to build in-person experience through a virtual platform.
Tips for grant writing to fund your community work from a former grant officer—the second in a series on funding by CO.STARTERS Director of Program Development Rebekah Marr.
Other ways to fund your nonprofit idea—the second in a series on funding by CO.STARTERS Director of Program Development Rebekah Marr.
By David Kraus We at CO.STARTERS want to invest in your story. Every individual story is unique, and we want to do justice telling the complex stories of ventures that benefit from our platform. Specifically, we want to focus on one particularly important facet of your CO.STARTERS story: “What happened next?” How has CO.STARTERS changed [...]
At this year’s CO.STARTERS Retreats, we conducted a visioning exercise aimed at getting to the heart of our work’s shared purpose. Participants were prompted to consider their community becoming a national success story for creating a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem by 2025. Working in pairs, then small groups, and then all together, we discussed and created [...]
