REAL Women Co-Lab conducts, contributes, and catalyzes research on rural women in business. Below are projects the lab and/or its staff members have been previously engaged on.

Business Finance and Access to Capital Research:

• [In Progress] 2024 Funding Foundations Rural, Online Cohort and Lending Pilot: Rocky Mountain Women's Business Center and Dakota Business Lending (multi-state).
• [In Progress] 2024 Montana Access to Finance Micro-Reports for:
  • Rural
  • Indigenous
  • Women
• 2023 Accelerate Montana: Access to Finance Funders Report + Executive Summary
• 2023 Accelerate Montana: Access to Finance Business Report + Executive Summary

Pertinent Research Conducted by Ecosystem Partners:

• 2017 Kauffman + University of Montana's Startup Ecosystem Report + Executive Summary
• 2016 Kauffman + University of Montana's Women's Pre-Entrepreneurship Study