Who is Hatch Innovation for?
OUR COMPREHENSIVE APPROACH
Hatch Innovation combines three innovative strategies to help communities forge their own futures.
HatchLab Communities
HatchLabs are centers for entrepreneurship and innovation, offering community members places to work, learn, launch and grow. These centers are key to a healthy local entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Community Capital
Hatch Innovation’s online platforms, policy expertise, and InvestorReady Accelerator increase access to curriculum and capital, critical components for financing the entrepreneurs of tomorrow.
21st Century Curriculum
PurposeWorks is a revolutionary, 21st century curriculum for entrepreneurs to design, launch and scale an enterprise that improves the world. StartUpYourState is an online learning platform for entrepreneurs at any stage.
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HTF 031: #LifeIsCumulative (Teaching Entrepreneurship in Prison)
We interviewed Sonja Skvarla, founder and Executive Director of A Social Ignition. "Those who have been incarcerated come out facing a tremendous number of barriers to success. From feeling isolated by limited social interaction to no access to current...
What Should Local Economic Development Look Like?
Community capital provides new access for citizens to invest and removes barriers to entrepreneurship. Historically under-served communities (i.e. African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, women, and rural), can now invest in the enterprises they believe in....
When Crowdfunding and Community Development Get Married
Crowdfunding is hot. It’s the most sweeping financial disruption to come along in decades, enabling financial shifts across professions and practices. It’s being discussed in pure hyperbole to thoughtful commentary on its potential for the democratization of capital...