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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

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Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. What comes next remains to be seen but these revolutions even empowered individuals not touched directly by the uprisings.

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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Choosing a career that allows you to give back to your community or take other measures to make the world a better place takes some thought. If you have a demanding, full-time job that doesn’t give you much time for humanitarian or ecological efforts, working remotely could be the answer. Work Remotely.

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Should You Serve Fair Trade Coffee?

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What about the farms, are they environmentally friendly, and are they using green and sustainable methods? ”-Kate Harrison Kate Harrison of Green Bride Guide notes that there are differences in the benefits offered from one type of coffee to the next, depending on variations such as region.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Motivation to Grow Their Business

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Starting my own business has given me the freedom to spend more time with my family and kids, go for a hike in the morning, make a green smoothie, and work with innovative direct-to-consumer companies that I am personally passionate about and are creating some force of good in the world every day. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

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Over the years, we discovered that UK homeowners and tenants needed more domestic services which we added to our portfolio as and when there was a demand. It has opened the door to youth sports for kids in my community as well as eliminate the theft that occurs in youth sports that aren’t being monitored. Thanks to Tana M.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

During my senior year of college I had to write a business plan for a construction business as I had a “dream” of starting my own business in the future.The love of the outdoors, as opposed to working in an office environment, propelled me to enter the green industry as an entrepreneur, when the opportunity presented itself.

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The Art of Work with Jeff Goins [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We rely on communities of people that help us get to where we want to go. I think you’ll find is what Robert Greene in his book, Mastery says it’s true that, “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.” I realized this, that every story of success is really a story of community.

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