Nominate the Recast City Sparks!
Nominate yourself or someone in your community who is making a real difference for your local small-scale manufacturing businesses. Submit your nomination TODAY to be selected as a Recast City Spark!
Be featured in national press and share your story nationally.
Why are we looking for the Recast City Sparks?
Who is remembered and who is held up as a success story is often a question of who is in the room. We know women, especially women of color, are often left out of those success stories.
Let's change that and tell the stories of the Recast City Sparks of our communities - the women and nonbinary leaders who are the heroes of local economic development. The problem-solvers, the fixers, the do'ers who are creating new opportunities for small-scale manufacturing and artisan businesses to grow and thrive!
HOW THE NOMINATION WORKS
Find.
Is it you? Is a friend? Who is the person making magic happen for small-scale manufacturers in your community?
Nominate.
Submit information about this hero and their work through the Recast City Sparks nomination form.
Share.
Tell others in your community to nominate their heroes. Use #RecastCitySparks and we'll help echo it!
Recognize.
Get featured! The Spark 10 and their stories will be announced in December, featured in national press & social media.
WHAT KINDS OF STORIES ARE WE LOOKING FOR?
JIM JERSEY
JI M JERSEY
The Recast City Sparks are creating affordable space for artisans and growing small producers, hosting startup and scale up programs for entrepreneurs, and investing in their success..
Kinds of Projects
The Recast City Sparks are telling the stories of business owners, promoting them online and at local events. They are creating the space for these businesses to grow and thrive. They are supporting owners who are ready to put down deep roots in the community.
Impacts in the community
JIM JERSEY
JIM JER SEY
MEET RECAST CITY
JIM JER SEY
JIM JER SEY
JIM JER SEY
I'm Ilana Preuss, Founder & CEO, of Recast City. I am beyond excited to invite you to apply for the Recast City Sparks. This is our chance to tell the stories of our local heroes - and to share their wins on the national stage! I hope you will join us!
Recast City helps communities create thriving small-scale manufacturing sectors in their downtown or main street to fill storefronts, build community wealth, and create a place people love to call home.
WHY NOMINATE?
Women and nonbinary leaders in our communities are creating new economic opportunities for people who have been historically excluded. The programs and projects they are creating to grow small-scale manufacturing businesses - at home, on main street, and in spaces throughout their community are making a real difference. Let's recognize the people who are stepping up to fill a void and solve a problem.