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The Start- Up Next Door

Senior Living Communities Can Rewrite the Entrepreneur PlaybookThe image of a startup founder is slowly changing. For decades, the popular culture painted entrepreneurship as a game exclusively for twenty-somethings working out of silicon-infused garages, but no longer. There can be a new wave of innovation, and it can emerge from an unexpected place: senior living …

Our Shared Duty of Care

Why supporting entrepreneurs means investing in the long-term resilience of our communities One year ago this month, we celebrated the graduation celebration of the 2025 Matchstick Lab Micro Business Accelerator cohort, a program that brought together 24 groundbreakers in the Kitsap community and invested heavily in the growth and development of the next iteration of …