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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Volunteering in Costa Rica

David Cohen

Arrived just before midnight (it’s the same time zone as colorado here). Move that to there and evenly distribute it so the land is flat. Great lunch, it was friend chicken tenders, rice and black beans, a green salsa, plantains, and fruit juice. Some more green salsa, and this time some kind of pink fruit juice.

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So You Want to Start a Cannabis Business: Advice for the Absolute Beginner

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Many see huge dispensaries in Colorado, for example, raking in big bucks. On top of all of that, banks still refuse to work with businesses that grow or distribute marijuana because it is still illegal under federal law. First, you’ll need to decide which sector of the marijuana industry to go into.

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet. .

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Venture Capital in the Rockies Winter 2010 Unveils Promising Growth Companies Ahead of Conference

VC Adventure

The VCIR Winter 2010 conference will be held at the Park Hyatt in Beaver Creek, Colorado, February 23-25, showcasing early-growth companies from Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, and Wyoming. Green Garage is a new kind of garage that makes car s gentler on the planet and easier on the wallet. .

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

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To supplement this guide, I interviewed two experienced farm hands: Gregory Heilers, previously an assistant farm manager, and Dr. Cindy Jones, the owner of Colorado Aromatics, a small herb farm in Colorado. About eight years ago, she and her husband decided to start a small herb farm in their home state of Colorado.

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Getty is the fourth green line. This is what it looks like, for our website and our images category leader… You can notice big differences in acquisition strategy right away – from the size of the boxes, and from, for example, seeing that Web Portals and Search is darker green (more growth) for Shutterstock than for us.

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