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Equity & Inclusion

  • Policy Reports, Principal research

    State of Urban Manufacturing

    Understanding the industrial ecosystem in six U.S. Cities.

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  • Policy Reports, Principal research

    Equitable Innovation Economies

    Local strategies for a more inclusive innovation economy

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  • past webinar

    Manufacturing’s Emerging Partners: Faith-Informed Organizations Supporting Employment and Entrepreneurship

  • past webinar

    Centering Equity in Our Federal Strategy for Urban Manufacturing

  • past webinar

    Partnership and Relationship Innovation to Build Race-Conscious Advanced Manufacturing Training Programs

  • past webinar

    Virtual Design Jams 2020 - Detroit and NYC

  • past webinar

    How Employers Can Train, Hire, and Retain Formerly Incarcerated Talent

  • past webinar

    Advancing Equity and Inclusion in Manufacturing Credentialing and Technology

  • past webinar

    Integrating Self-Storage Development Without Displacing Industrial Uses in Urban Areas: Lessons from San Francisco, New York City, and Miami

  • past webinar

    Creating the future manufacturing workforce by enhancing diversity and addressing the skills shortage

  • past webinar

    Exit and Succession Planning Strategies to Preserve Equity

  • past webinar

    The Re-Urbanization of Manufacturing

  • past webinar

    Making Maker Spaces Work

    Lessons from Sacramento
    Making Maker Spaces Work for Young People

  • past webinar

    Scaling Small-Batch Food Production in Cities

    Lessons from Boston and Washington, DC

  • past webinar

    Community College Partnerships to Create Workforce Pipelines

    Lessons from Denver and San Bruno

  • past webinar

    Building Apprenticeship Programs to Engage Youth in Manufacturing Careers

    Lessons from Cincinnati, Montreal, and San Francisco

  • past webinar

    Advancing Inclusive Entrepreneurship

    Lessons from Portland and Cincinnati

  • past webinar

    Strategic Partnerships to Connect Youth to the Trades

    Lessons from Detroit

  • past webinar

    Equity and Inclusion in Urban Manufacturing

    A framework for advancing racial, economic, and social equity

  • past events

  • Private Sector Guarantees and Guarantee Pools

    Feb 11 2021

  • Pathways Fireside Chat: Nontraditional Underwriting Standards

    Dec 8 2020

  • Supporting the Ecosystem Builders Who Support Small Businesses: Why Their Resiliency is Key to Economic Recovery 

    Oct 30 2020

  • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at Every Level of Manufacturing

    Oct 26 2020

  • Explicitly Centering Racial Equity in your Workforce Training Organization

    Sep 30 2020

  • Frontline Economic Development Responders: How Community-Based Lenders Can Preserve Neighborhood Manufacturing Businesses

    Sep 22 2020

  • Pursuing Equity, Inclusion, and Industrial Rebirth in the Age of COVID-19

    Jun 25 2020

  • Creating & Preserving Urban Industrial Space

    Jun 18 2020

  • Pathways to Scale and Impact Webinar/Discussion

    May 27 2020

  • Forging Fairness COVID Discussion

    May 20 2020

  • Whole-Entrepreneur Capital Readiness - Pathways to Patient Capital

    Apr 20 2020

  • Transforming Communities through Mission-Driven Industrial Development

    Dec 3 2019

  • UMA's 2017 Seattle Gathering

    Oct 4 2017

  • UMA's 2017 Somerville Gathering

    May 17 2017

  • Policy Reports

  • Made With Equity: Inclusive Innovation in Advanced Manufacturing

  • Seeding, Starting, and Scaling Local Branding Initiatives

    A study of economic development strategies that establish manufacturing entrepreneurial ecosystems

  • State Small Business Credit Initiative

    A New Capital Tool for Revitalizing and Diversifying Manufacturing

  • Centering Federal Industrial Policy in Racial Justice & Community Development

    UMA’s First Federal Policy Agenda

  • Manufacturing’s Emerging Partners

    Faith-Informed Organizations Supporting Employment and Entrepreneurship

     

  • Sewn Trades Manufacturing in the United States

  • Launching A Neighborhood Place-Based Entrepreneurship Center

    In partnership with InBIA

  • Makerspaces in Action

    A Community-Based Response to the Pandemic

  • Racial Equity and Advancing the Future of Manufacturing

    Co-Authored with The Century Foundation

  • Creating and Preserving Industrial Space: Mission Driven Development Toolkit

    Co-authored with the Association for Neighborhood Development

  • All About the Jobs:

    Mission Driven Industrial Developers Anchor Manufacturers & Support Local Economies

  • Moving Towards Equitable Maker Ecosystems

    The Role of Local Branding Organizations

  • Advancing Equitable Innovation in Houston

    Local Strategies to Support Urban Manufacturing and Inclusive Growth

  • Equitable Capital Access Models

    WITH LOCAL PROGRESS: THE NATIONAL MUNICIPAL POLICY NETWORK

  • Making, Scaling, and Inclusion

    Authored with PolicyLink and Pratt Center for Community Development

  • Discovering Your City’s Maker Economy

    With National League of Cities, ETSY, & Recast City

  • Equitable Innovation Economies

    Local strategies for a more inclusive innovation economy

  • State of Urban Manufacturing

    Understanding the industrial ecosystem in six U.S. Cities.

  • Toolkit

  • Creating and Preserving Industrial Space: Mission Driven Development Toolkit

    Co-authored with the Association for Neighborhood Development

  • Toolkit: Manufacturing Promotion and Engagement

    WITH BAY AREA URBAN MANUFACTURING INITIATIVE
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