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Kiva Zip Detroit Update

We’re delighted to announce that after four years of exciting growth and inspiring impact in and around Detroit, Kiva Zip is graduating out of beta!...

Hundreds Learn About Launching a Social Enterprise in Detroit

These were the type of phrases bantered about on Wednesday, May 5, at Social Entrepreneur Day, part of Detroit Entrepreneur Week, May 2-7, 2016....

Welcome Wayne: Alumni Manager

We're very excited to welcome Wayne Ramocan to our BUILD team as our new Alumni Manager! He's a fellow 2013 BUILD graduate and a man of many talents who will strengthen our growing community of Builders....

Welcome Yolanda: Registration Manager

Welcome Madalyn: Brand Strategy Manager

We're so thrilled to welcome fellow BUILD graduate Madalyn Knebel to our BUILD team as our Brand Strategy Manager!...

Get to Know Nikki: Alumni Coordinator

Though she's been assisting us since 2015, we're thrilled to officially welcome BUILD graduate Nikki Pardo to our BUILD team as the Alumni Coordinator!...

A Spirit of Detroit: BUILD grad reflects and thanks those that have helped

I’m a relative newcomer to Detroit, having moved here in 2012 to teach elementary school on the west side of the city....

BUILD in Huffington Post

There is no lack of people within Detroit's neighborhoods who want to collaborate. April Boyle, Executive Director of BUILD Institute, a network of grass-roots programs that train people to bring their business ideas to life, says more attention and investment...

Welcome Eric: Recruitment and Registration Coordinator

We're so excited to welcome Eric Dean to our BUILD team as our new Registration and Recruitment Coordinator....

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