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Rebuilding Main Street: Mr. Grant Money & the Microgrid Makeover in Ohio
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Mapleton, OH wasn’t asking for pity—it was asking for power. After a deadly blackout shut down its only pharmacy and hospital annex, this once-thriving factory town took matters into its own hands. The...
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Mr. Grant Money: Scholarly Cents – A College Finance Expedition
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This new volume, Scholarly Cents: A College Finance Expedition, continues Rodney Walker’s mission to bridge the gap between ambition and access. Focused on the real-world financial challenges college...
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Charging Forward: Mr. Grant Money & the EV Revolution in Tulsa
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In Tulsa, Oklahoma—a city known for oil fields and racial wounds—a coalition of visionary leaders launches a bold clean-energy project: Tulsa ChargeNet, a decentralized EV charging network rooted in...
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Wi-Fi for the World: Mr. Grant Money & the Digital Village in Uganda
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This post follows Grace Namatovu and Luka Akena—two visionaries in rural Uganda who refused to accept isolation as their community’s fate. With no Wi-Fi, spotty electricity, and analog recordkeeping,...
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The Bridge to the Future: Mr. Grant Money & the Smart Highway Project in Detroit
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In this electrifying Detroit-based chapter, Mr. Grant Money returns to help a city at a literal and metaphorical crossroads. Facing outdated infrastructure, rising emissions, and disconnected...
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Mr. Grant Money: Profit Pioneers – Young Entrepreneurs Unleashed
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This post introduces The Amazing Adventures of Mr. Grant Money: Profit Pioneers – Young Entrepreneurs Unleashed (Vol. 3) by Rodney Walker, a game-changing guidebook designed to empower teens to turn...
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The Fable of the Iron Pot and the Glowing Screen
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This story follows Ayanna Blake, granddaughter of Miss Thelma, who inherited more than a café—she inherited a cultural legacy in Charleston’s North Side. But in a fast-paced, tech-obsessed culinary...
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The Business Accelerator: Mr. Grant Money & The Entrepreneur Who Got a Second Chance
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When CivicRow, a civic tech startup founded by Jalen Ross, teetered on the edge of shutdown, it wasn’t scandal or failure that threatened it—it was silence. Despite impact, pilots, and real user...
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The Green Business Grant: Mr. Grant Money & The Sustainable Startup
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This post follows Zara, an AI-driven circular logistics founder in Sydney who built a platform to rescue unsold textile inventory from landfills—but nearly went under doing it.
Despite strong metrics...
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The Retail Revolution: Mr. Grant Money & The Boutique Owner Who Scaled Fast
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This post follows Camryn Foster, a visionary fashion retailer whose boutique, Threaded, lit up Houston with Black Southern brilliance—but was bursting at the seams before traditional funders would even...
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The Family Business Legacy: Mr. Grant Money & The Next-Gen Entrepreneur
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This post centers on Daniel Morales, a second-generation Latino entrepreneur fighting to modernize his family’s neighborhood print shop—Morales Press, a Queens mainstay since 1982.
Daniel didn’t...
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The Tech Grant: Mr. Grant Money & The Innovator Building the Future
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This post follows Laila Weiss, a Berlin-based engineer quietly building a privacy-first AI model to protect health data while advancing public forecasting. Investors called her “too early.”...
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