Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas announced Thursday that the city is making $4.5 million available for those struggling to pay rent and utilities. With the economic effects of COVID-19 hitting many Kansas Citians hard, the city will allocate funds to community organizations to...

With support from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, UMKC is starting a new grant program.  Called the Entrepreneurship Innovation Grant (EIG), students and faculty from every department across campus are encouraged by UMKC to submit proposals. “We don’t want...

According to the Washington Post, over 100,000 small businesses have permanently closed due to COVID-19. Tina Medina’s 14-year-old business, Wise Writers and Speakers, could have been one of them. Luckily, Wise Writers and Speakers was one of 23 businesses in the Kansas...