- July 7, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
Two Pennsylvania artisan-support organizations — one in Philadelphia, the other in Pittsburgh — are collaborating on a statewide initiative to track and support thousands of small independent businesses that make things.
CraftNOW, a Philadelphia organization that chiefly presents the work of craft artists in the city through an annual festival and symposium, has teamed up with the Creative Business Accelerator, which supports entrepreneurial artists in Pittsburgh, to form the Keystone Alliance for Creative Economies and Entrepreneurship, or KACEE.
Launched in March, KACEE’s two-prong goals are first to survey and track “makers” — small businesses, often with sole proprietors, that make one-of-a-kind things like furniture, jewelry, ceramics, etc. — and then offer support by way of business coaching, peer networks, and help finding sources of capital.
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