It's 2023 | Moving Forward
Knox St. Studios
Knox St. Studios connects and equips current or aspiring entrepreneurs across the Triangle area of North Carolina.
Happy New Year from the Knox St. Studios Village!
I hope you all had time to rest and come into 2023 with expanded goals and a renewed spirit. Our team (Shoutout to Richard & Lee!) spent Q3 and Q4 focusing on mission alignment with the ever-developing Triangle community needs. We have some new programs launching, some strong collaborations, brilliant new Board Members and some exciting advancements to our existing work around economic development, workforce readiness and small business support.
-Talib Graves-Manns, Interim Executive Director
UPDATES ON A GREAT 2022!
?UPDATE #1 - Knox Street’s 2022 Techstars Startup Weekend: Social Innovation was a big success and we are expecting even more community involvement at our Startup Weekends in 2023. Click here to see the video and learn more.
UPDATE #2 - Knox St. Studios is one in five Entrepreneur Support Organizations in the SBA-backed E3 Durham program. Our collective recruits and supports entrepreneurs and small business owners through a comprehensive list of services. In 2022, KSS successfully onboarded 180 small business owners, and engaged over 400 people.
UPDATE #3 - In partnership with Duke University, Knox St Studios is planning our 2nd story Learning Lab construction. We want the space to be guided by what our youth want/need to experience. With our new Inspire to Code program, our youth cohorts will contribute to creating a space that is youth and STEM focused while learning some basic coding and spatial design skills. This program also has a holistic wellness focus that will inspire them to turn inward as well as consider their own communities. Stay tuned!
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Transition Year for Tech in the Triangle
?2022 was a transition year for tech in the Triangle area. Knox St. Studios, through our programs + partnerships have witnessed a strong interest in inclusive & innovative growth both from current Triangle Tech Firms as well as firms coming to the area. There are over 45,000 tech jobs in the triangle from the WRAL Tech Wire August 22' monthly jobs report. This correlates to big investment, big opportunity, but also big room to work hard to get it right and make it inclusive! You can read the full article here.
We hope you’ll join us as we embark on another exciting year serving our community.
Please follow us on Instagram, and LinkedIn. As always, thank you for being stakeholders and supporters of the Knox St Studios Team. We also looking for more volunteers. You may think you don’t have anything to contribute, but what’s important when serving your community is generosity of heart + time.
Earlier this week we honored a great leader lost too soon --- consider Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s powerful words about service.
“Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve… You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.”