Host Organizations / Lead Conference Coordinators
The host organizations listed below have provided not only financial support but also extensive planning and logistical support. The Kauffman Foundation has graciously offered meeting space and technical assistance, pivotal to the success of this conference.
- Mid-America Regional Council
- The Mid-America Regional Council promotes regional cooperation and develops innovative solutions. It helps create a community people are proud to call home. MARC is a nonprofit association of city and county governments and the metropolitan planning organization for the bistate Kansas City region. Governed by a board of local elected officials, it serves nine counties and 120 cities. MARC provides a forum for the region to work together to advance social, economic and environmental progress.
- Indiana University Center for International Business Education and Research
- Established in 1992, the IU CIBER carries on Indiana University’s long legacy of international involvement. The Kelley School of Business was one of the first schools to establish an international business department in the 1950s. Kelley faculty then took the lead in developing the field of international business—its literature, curriculum, and fundamental research directions—and educating international business scholars. The IU CIBER provides the business community, faculty members, and students with a research-oriented and multidisciplinary approach to understanding the dynamics of international business.
- The Ohio State University Center for International Business Education and Research
- Within the International Programs Office, Fisher's Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER) is one of the critically important vehicles we use to globalize our students, faculty, and members of the business community who participate in our programs. Our CIBER provides the impetus for us to create and maintain a wide variety of programs for students, faculty, and members of the business community.
- University of Kansas Center for International Business Education and Research
- The University of Kansas CIBER contributes to the KU Business School's efforts to assure that its graduates are fully aware of the importance of, and are properly equipped with the critical skills necessary to conduct global business and manage a culturally diverse transnational workforce. The center fosters and develops active partnerships with international Area Studies Centers, professional schools, language departments, and interested faculty across the University for the benefit of our students. In addition, the center actively engages in collaborative activities with businesses in Kansas and beyond to promote learning and expertise in international business.
- City of Kansas City, Missouri
- The North America Works Conference was created in 2005 by the International Affairs and Trade Office (IATO) of the City of Kansas City, Mo. Under IATO leadership, the conference has become over the past four years the premier meeting point for discussion and exchange on critical North American developments. Because of its role as the key transportation and logistics hub at the center of North America and the growth of regional trade with Canada and Mexico, Kansas City is the idea host for this important meeting. .
- North America's SuperCorridor Coalition
- Since 1994 North America's SuperCorridor Coalition members have been leaders at the forefront of uniting public and private sectors to address critical national and international trade, transportation, security and environmental issues. Spanning almost 2,500 hundred miles through the central United States, eastern and central Canada, and deep into Mexico, the NASCO trade corridor is a multi-modal transportation network that connects 71 million people and supports a large part of $1 trillion dollars in total commerce between the three nations.
- Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
- The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation was established in the mid-1960s by the late entrepreneur and philanthropist Ewing Marion
Kauffman. Based in Kansas City, Missouri, the Kauffman Foundation is among the thirty largest foundations in the United States with
an asset base of approximately $2 billion. Our vision is to foster “a society of economically independent individuals who are engaged
citizens, contributing to the improvement of their communities.” In service of this vision, and in keeping with our founder’s wishes, we
focus our grant making and operations on two areas: advancing entrepreneurship and improving the education of children and youth.
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