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Business & Entrepreneurship
Activity
Saturday, May 3, 2025
10:00am
In Person
Talk with local business and organizations about employment and volunteer opportunities. Meet with local colleges and trade schools to learn about...
Activity
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
10:30am
Online
Are you getting ready to organize the expenses that will go toward opening and operating a new business? If so, determining an educated estimate of...
Activity
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
9:00am
In Person
All Library locations will open late at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, April 9, due to staff training....
Signature Event
Thursday, May 18, 2023
6:00pm
Online
Jackie Nguyen, founder of Café Cà Phê, highlights the second installment of the Library’s four-part series on how to make entrepreneurship in Kansas C...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 7, 2023
6:00pm
Online
In Person
Three local business owners -- Kemet Coleman, La’Nae Robinson, and La’Nesha Frazier -- help the Library kick off a new four-pa...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 26, 2022
6:30pm
Online
In Person
Learn about the past, present, and future of vision loss during the premiere of the podcast and video series Foresight, produced by Kansas City’s A...
Signature Event
Friday, January 15, 2021
12:00pm
Online
While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
12:00pm
Online
More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 12, 2021
12:00pm
Online
Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...