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In WEMU: Business Conference In Ann Arbor Focuses On Inclusion, Capital And Connection

By Jorge Avellan // June 4, 2019

“About 230 business leaders from Southeast Michigan gathered to hear speakers like April Boyle on how companies and organizations can survive in a tough market.  She’s the founder and CEO of BUILD Institute, a group that provides entrepreneurs with tools to launch and maintain a business.  She says getting people to realize the importance of buying local is essential.

“If we spend our money and dollars with local small businesses, where the owner is from the community, the dollar is recycled.  One dollar is recycled into five, ten dollars and it stays in the community,” said Boyle.”

To the BUILD Institute Community,

On behalf of the BUILD Institute Board of Directors, we want to share that the Board has made the decision to pause operations at the end of 2025.

We recognize that we are living in a time of great uncertainty for small business support organizations across Michigan. This moment offers us an opportunity to reassess how BUILD delivers on its mission, retool our programming, and evaluate new partnership opportunities and our overall business model to ensure long-term sustainability and impact.

In the coming months, we will continue all scheduled programming through December to ensure that all commitments to entrepreneurs and partners are honored. During this time, we will also explore new ways to align our work with the evolving needs of our community, including our network of over 3,000 alums.

Please join us in showing appreciation for the team members and facilitators who have served Detroit’s entrepreneurs and supported BUILD’s mission since our founding in 2012.

If you have any questions about this decision or what it means in the near term, please email us at [email protected].

Thank you for your continued support and for being part of BUILD’s legacy of inclusive entrepreneurship.

With gratitude,
The BUILD Institute Board of Directors