Creating

Opportunity

Entrepreneurship is the single most important vehicle for supporting economic and community development.

How many entrepreneurs are facing poverty in your county?


Disadvantaged entrepreneurs exist in every community. Investing public dollars in entrepreneurial skills training is the best way to create economic mobility for communities that experience poverty and marginalization.

This calculator estimates the number of disadvantaged entrepreneurs by county, and models the potential economic impact of adult and dislocated workforce training programs.

Economic Impact estimates assume an economic impact of 25,000 per job created and identifies the investment needed to serve all disadvantaged entrepreneurs in both the selected state and county.

Just helping 50 in a community has the potential to create a $5,000,000 economic impact on a $300k training investment.

To create these estimates, we combine data from three sources:

KAUFFMAN INDICATOR OF ENTREPRENEURSHIP

CENSUS BUREAU

BUREAU OF LABOR AND STATISTICS