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University of Kansas alumna Michelle Tran Maryns has won a $100,000 grant from the Bush Foundation.
A University of Kansas alumna has won a large grant to help expand her business, which seeks to provide AI-powered technology to entrepreneurs who are women of color.
Michelle Tran Maryns is one of 24 recipients of the 2021 Bush Fellowship. The Bush Fellowship is granted by the Bush Foundation, which was started by Archibald and Edyth Bush in 1953. Each of the recipients will receive a $100,000 grant to “build their capacity to make change happen,” according to the Bush Foundation’s website.
Maryns is the CEO of We Sparkle, a company that provides entrepreneurs with the AI tools they need to succeed, she said in an interview with the Journal-World. We Sparkle equips entrepreneurs with a digital assistant that helps business owners save time by doing administrative tasks such as scheduling appointments and answering frequently asked questions. The tool can be displayed on a
This year’s class of fellows includes 18 Minnesotans. Bush Foundation
Over Half of 2021 Bush Fellows Are Minnesotans Each recipient will receive up to $100,000 to continue their work, which ranges from tackling racial disparities in education and health care to reshaping how the judicial system handles non-violent crimes.
Minnesotans comprise over half of the 2021 class of Bush Fellows. On Tuesday, the St. Paul-based Bush Foundation unveiled the 24 individuals chosen for its yearly fellowship. Eighteen fellows hail from Minnesota.
“These 24 Fellows are committed to strengthening their capacity to lead large-scale, equitable change,” said Anita Patel, Bush Foundation’s VP of grantmaking, in a press release. “In this time when our region faces reckoning around racial justice sparked by the murder of George Floyd, inequities exposed by Covid-19, and challenges to Native sovereignty, we need leaders who can imagine new systems and transform exis
Minnesota s tax credit for angel investors works, should become routine February 14, 2021 11:11am Text size Copy shortlink:
It should go back to $10 million with a legislative commitment to fund it for five years.
Even at that level, it s a pittance in a two-year budget that will top $50 billion.
The Angel Tax Credit gives investors in young, private firms a tax break of 25% on investments of up to $125,000 per person or $250,000 for a married couple.
The credits should be financed not by the general fund but a tax linked to capital gains pocketed by institutional investors, traders and investment bankers.
And the Legislature should make a modest, long-term commitment to the credit. It has faced periodic uncertainty, which has discouraged promising companies and investors. The credit was omitted from the state budget in 2018 and 2020.