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How Can Transportation Alleviate Poverty?

How Can Transportation Alleviate Poverty?

If you don’t have a car, which an estimated 94% of welfare recipients don’t, then you have to rely on public transit, bikes, or your own two feet. 

3 Ways To Build Power for Microbusiness

3 Ways To Build Power for Microbusiness

Click here to sign up for updates from Ventures’ advocacy program. On Tuesday, March 6th, entrepreneurs, business owners, and advocates came out to share their ideas for Ventures' new advocacy program at our headquarters in Seattle. This meeting, the first of many for...

Meet the Volunteer Coaches Behind InnoVentures

Meet the Volunteer Coaches Behind InnoVentures

[cmsms_row data_width="boxed" data_color="default" data_padding_top="0" data_padding_bottom="25"][cmsms_column data_width="1/1"][cmsms_text animation_delay="0"] The goals for InnoVentures are simple. Incubate businesses, increase the competency and confidence of our...

Why Rachel’s Ginger Beer Supports InnoVentures

Why Rachel’s Ginger Beer Supports InnoVentures

After a five-year post-collegiate stint living in the Bavarian Alps, I returned home to Seattle and realized something. It was impossible to find the kind of ginger beer I’d fallen in love with abroad—bold, acidic, fresh, and not cloyingly sweet. So I got to work...