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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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22 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2020

Hearpreneur

Thanks to Steve Keighery, Home Buyer Louisiana ! #3- Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. I would say this is what I am most proud of but I am also proud of the traction that my new business has built in its first full year of operation. 3- Pivoting. Photo Credit: Taylor Drake. Thanks to Khris Steven, KhrisDigital !

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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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Finding Your Fire And Igniting Change

Duct Tape Marketing

No matter the juncture, no matter my role, I've always been a person that provided data to either a person or community so that they could create change. That would be harmful to the work that we do and to our communities. So the way that I did that work has been the same, no matter the task. So I think that is the real through line.

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10 Amazing Microfinance Success Stories

YoungUpstarts

When The Baptist University of the Americas asked him to set up shop on campus, he financed the project with a $4,265 loan from ACCION Texas-Louisiana to secure supplies and part-time employees. He settled his family in San Antonio, Texas and opened a Cajun restaurant in a shack in the city.

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[Review] How To Speak American

YoungUpstarts

In the book, Jankowski shines the spotlight on the deeply-rooted core values that underpin the heartland way of life – the focus on faith, community and family. A heartlander, he asserts, tend to have very deep religious beliefs; and they are strongly connected to their families and communities.

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Hyperbolic Headlines About Silicon Valley

Feld Thoughts

Kind of entertaining that Netscape led us to Monroe, Louisiana. The real story is that you can create startups, and thriving startup communities anywhere. Blink four times if you are still here and followed all of that. Now, go read Ian Hathaway’s post titled Silicon Valley is Not Over. He nails it.