2024 Report:
Inclusive Creative Economy Strategy
Upstart’s people-focused approach to impact assessment recognizes the role that investments in the creative economy can play in advancing economic opportunity and community development. Upstart tracks the impact of creative economy investments across five dimensions:
- Access to capital: Equity investment for funds investing in companies in the creative industries, and companies in the creative industries and serving the creative economy.
- Quality Jobs: Jobs that provide a living wage, basic benefits, career-building opportunities, wealth-building opportunities, and a fair and engaging workplace.
- Vibrant communities: Activities that strengthen economic development, encourage civic engagement, build resiliency, and contribute to quality of life.
- Sustainable creative lives: Ownership models, earnings opportunities, and pathways to wealth building that support a “creative middle class.”
- An inclusive creative economy: Economic activity anchored in Openness & Experimentation, Diversity & Inclusion, and Tradition & Innovation that benefits artists, designers and all members of the community.
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Upstart Co-Lab’s 2022 Impact Report
Upstart Co-Lab’s 2021 Impact Report