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The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation is looking for bold ideas and "uncommon solutions" to entrepreneurship barriers. And it's ready to award as much as $7 million in grants to help organizations level the playing field for entrepreneurs.

Although there's a resurgence of business activity in the U.S., entrepreneurship has remained in a long decline, Philip Gaskin, director of entrepreneurship communities for the foundation, told the Kansas City Business Journal.