Last week the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation announced a $5 million pledge to The Campaign for UMKC, an initiative to build a new Free Enterprise Center on the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Volker campus. The funds will be used to help boost entrepreneurship and economic development efforts by two of the university’s rapidly growing schools, the School of Computing and Engineering and the Henry W. Bloch School of Management. “We are all in awe when we see what has happened, when we look around the campus and realize the burst of money and energy and enthusiasm and construction—and forward-thinking improvements—that have taken place in these past few years,” said Betsey Solberg, chair of the UMKC Foundation, in a press release. So far the campaign has raised $173 million of its $250 million goal. — Source: UMKC

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