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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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. Here in the U.S. What about the rest of us?

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24 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

When I released this information into the community my life became in danger. We began by being content-producers focused on serving the 18-24-year-old demographic right after graduation from Virginia Tech. First, we built relationships with 10+ colleges, getting distribution rights to their students.

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How Nonprofits Are Providing Support During COVID-19

Board Effect

Nonprofit organizations are in the unique position of having to provide support for the community while needing support from other parts of the community. The lack of funding drains their finances and other resources which will likely have a long-term impact on their capacity to serve their communities in the coming months or years.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

www.inc.com

Join our community. Take GlobalLogic , a $100 million software research and development company based in Vienna, Virginia. Get powerful communication & collaboration tools to help grow your business. CDW your 1-stop resource for configuration, activation & distribution. ); Login or signup. Welcome | Logout. Forgot login

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6

Steve Blank

This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. Hill in Virginia. In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure. (If we would insist they do it, it would feel like extra assigned work. Their sponsor invited them to attend the drone conference at Fort A.P.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford – Week 6

Steve Blank

This week we are seeing the typical class distribution. Hill in Virginia. In a mission-driven organization such as the defense and intelligence community, there is no revenue to measure. (If we would insist they do it, it would feel like extra assigned work. Their sponsor invited them to attend the drone conference at Fort A.P.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Our community colleges are excellent as well, including the Alamo Colleges, Austin Community College, the Dallas College and the Lone Star Community College. In San Antonio we take great pride in our diverse, artistic, affordable and culturally rich community filled with a young and burgeoning creative class workforce.

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