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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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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

In a quote that’s often attributed to Charles Darwin – but was in fact a Louisiana State University management professor paraphrasing Darwin in 1963 , “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. Now, with so much in flux, where do we go from here? Who flourishes?

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What is an L3C?

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Currently, you can form an L3C in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, and in the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The idea is that the L3C structure paves the way for some of this money to be invested in L3Cs.

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111 Great Last Minute Gift Ideas For Clients

Mike Michalowicz

100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. This South Louisiana coffee house has them all. On behalf of your client, send a bed net to a family in Africa —where every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria. It’s simple. Customized Cool Stickers.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Distribution. Art and Designers. Auditing Services. Competitive Intelligence. Consultants. Consultants, Fulfillment. Content Licensing. CRM Systems. Database Marketing. Digital Delivery. Editorial Services. Email and Fax Services. Fulfillment. Insert Media Brokers. Mergers and Acquisitions. Mobile Content. Paper Merchants. California.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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To order presentation-ready copies for distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by copyright law. Semiconductors. Telecommunications. Transportation.

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What to Give Your Clients in this Season of Giving

Mike Michalowicz

100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. This South Louisiana coffee house has them all. On behalf of your client, send a bed net to a family in Africa —where every thirty seconds a child dies from malaria. It’s simple. Customized Cool Stickers.