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.
FEATURED
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...
What You Should Know About Crowdfunding, and its Disruptive Power for Positive Change
I’m not a venture capitalist, a securities regulator, or a legislator. I’m not even a lawyer. While these are the folks who have driven the conversation about crowdfunding-as-investment, especially the new JOBS Act-related federal exemptions, the real action is...