Category: Entrepreneurship

Nonprofit awards $365K to startups

Main Street Ventures, a local nonprofit that provides equity-free funding to entrepreneurs and startups in eight counties within the Tri-State region, has awarded $365,838 in grant funding to nineteen local entrepreneurs during its first quarter grant cycle.

Nonprofits honor AmeriCorps members

Santa Maria Community Services joins many other nonprofit organizations across Greater Cincinnati in recognizing during AmeriCorps Week March 12-18 the commitment of individuals who have chosen to serve their country through the AmeriCorps program.

Accelerator expanding programming

Aviatra Accelerators, a Cincinnati nonprofit accelerator dedicated to empowering women and small businesses, with education, resources and connections, has created SOAR, a new program of workshop-style events for women with an entrepreneurial interest.

UC, Caracole make drug impact

New research from the University of Cincinnati, in partnership with local nonprofit Caracole, shows a self-service vending machine filled with harm reduction supplies such as naloxone helped prevent overdoses and contributed to Hamilton County’s overdose deaths decreasing in 2021.