Kathy Nelson can't seem to wrap her mind around the word "No." That's good news for Kansas City, which will see the NFL Draft and its significant economic benefit roll into town in April. Nelson talks about her and her team's efforts to score the league's big event.
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Kathy Nelson was fed up with hearing, “No.” For the second time, Kansas City lost out on being host city for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship.
“I’m a big wrestling fan, and I was so frustrated,” said Nelson, CEO of the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission & Foundation. “So I flew to the committee members and said: ‘Why did you not pick Kansas City? What are we missing?’ … And I’ll never forget — the chair of the NCAA wrestling committee from Oklahoma City said, ‘Your…
Kathy Nelson was fed up with hearing, “No.” For the second time, Kansas City lost out on being host city for the NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship.
“I’m a big wrestling fan, and I was so frustrated,” said Nelson, CEO of the Greater Kansas City Sports Commission & Foundation. “So I flew to the committee members and said: ‘Why did you not pick Kansas City? What are we missing?’ … And I’ll never forget — the chair of the NCAA wrestling committee from Oklahoma City said, ‘Your…
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Pipeline Entrepreneurs not only forged a partnership with revenue-based financing platform Novel Capital, it also secured a $3 million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
The grant supports the entrepreneurial fellowship organization’s continuing evolution, and a prime focus will be building out its new Pathfinder program that supports “untapped entrepreneurs” who haven’t reached their full potential, Pipeline Executive Director Melissa Vincent said.
The Pathfinder program,…