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Fortune: Tech entrepreneurs grab the headlines, but COVID relief should target grass-roots small businesses

VC Adventure

The article talks about the importance of small business and tells the story of one New Builder – Carmen Portillo – who is the first certified chocolatier in the state of Arkansas. They also provide a certain connection to their communities that is both hard to put into words, but impossible to replace.

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IBM: Where Corporate Responsibility is Not a Trend, but a Lifestyle

Austin Startup

Thanks to a partnership with the United Way and IBM’s former Lenovo production department, Latinitas received its first laptop and was able to launch the first and only magazine made for and by young Latinas online and an accompanying media and tech education program in East Austin schools and community centers.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

it is a 501(c) (3) nonprofit, but because of its dedication to sustainability, it is now working with local communities to form separate stove manufacturing factories in their countries. Here in the U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Defy Colorado Graduation and Coaching Events

Feld Thoughts

Defy is in the business of building restorative communities and that community begins with us. Defy Colorado also has a business coaching session coming up on May 16th at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility in Ordway, Colorado. Don’t miss it – register now.

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How To Become A Real Estate Agent

YoungUpstarts

New York state, for example, has reciprocity with several states, including Massachusetts, Georgia, Arkansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Mississippi, West Virginia and Pennsylvania. Courses can be taken online, at community colleges or at a brick-and-mortar real estate school.

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Pre-College Checklist: Ten Tips To Help You Hit The Ground Running

YoungUpstarts

But if you have a chance to do an internship, job, or community project that develops your interests or career plans — well, that’s a great way to spend a summer too. Jacobs is professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas. You’ll arrive rested and ready to work if you’ve given yourself some R & R over the summer.

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Shut Up and Invest? Investors Weighing in on Politics

This is going to be BIG.

For the last two years, I’ve been pretty vocal about politics on social media , in my weekly tech community newsletter and on this blog. I also believe in treating people with respect and being helpful when I can—treating the world like a community where we all benefit from generosity and things aren’t always zero sum.

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