Partner With Us

Together, we are dedicated to fostering a dynamic ecosystem that promotes innovation, opportunity, and growth through shared knowledge and action.

Join a prestigious network of market leaders—including corporations, foundations, universities, and government entities—who collaborate with the Center to share their expertise and empower founders worldwide.

Partnership is more than a donation; it’s a customized relationship that delivers mutual benefits for both entrepreneurs and our partners.

Access

Our entrepreneur community is growing every day. We provide unique access to speaking platforms, marketing and business development, data sets for research, and educational toolkit and brand licensing, and research. Our partner-supported research is regularly cited by government agencies, including the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Small Business Administration (SBA).

People

Attracting and retaining talent requires a strong values-based culture and opportunities to put those values to work, with clients and in the community. The Center offers experiences designed to expose high-potential talent and company leaders to innovative and diverse early-stage founders while giving back: our partners teach, mentor, and coach entrepreneurs who deeply value their expertise.

Impact

• Helped entrepreneurs solve over tens of thousands of business challenges.
• Supported the creation of over 8,000 new jobs.
• Produced more than 11,000 learning hours with our partners.
• Shared countless mentorship hours between our community and industry experts.
• Designed and delivered workbooks highlighting partner expertise that have been downloaded more than 30,000 times.
• Included in corporate partner CSR reports including Nasdaq and Wells Fargo.

Programs
The Center provides high-profile platforms for company leaders to engage with diverse entrepreneurial communities. Our partners actively teach, mentor, and coach entrepreneurs who greatly value their guidance and knowledge.

New Initiatives
The Center, with our partners, also designs and delivers initiatives that work across programs, research and policy disciplines to enhance entrepreneurship opportunities for all, driving a more inclusive economy.

Policy
The Center’s unique dataset on real-time challenges and opportunities for entrepreneurs guides policymakers on investment and resource allocation. We conduct action research and host events, to highlight findings that demonstrate our sponsors’ commitment to thriving entrepreneurial economies.

Research
Leveraging research and insights from our community of over 100,000 entrepreneurs, we identify critical resource gaps for founders. In collaboration with our partners we create new resources and workbooks that highlight our sponsors’ exceptional expertise.