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

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Indivisible: How A 23-Page Google Doc Gave Birth To A National Progressive Movement

Hunter Walker

What does Indivisible “HQ” provide to these groups and is there a tension between a centrally managed message versus distributed action? They are not “astroturf” or “paid protesters” — they are real constituents, leading real resistance efforts in their communities. HW: I see lots of local Indivisible groups.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So by the time I got to McKinsey, they thought I was some magician, which is good because the rest of them used interviews and expertise and knowledge, which I didn't have any of those things. We should all wear them in public."