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Volunteering in Guatemala

David Cohen

The poverty rate in Guatemala is around 55%, so I decided to take Rollie to El Remete, Guatemala. Day 0 – Travel to Guatemala City before our next day connection Today was a travel day. We arrived in Guatemala City at 7pm, and got through customs and immigration fairly quickly. But I thought I’d share it all.

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Supporting Guatemala Honey Entrepreneurs

The Entrepreneurial Mind

My colleague here at Belmont University, Jose Gonzalez, has been working with a group of students to assist honey farmers in Guatemala. They all spent time in Guatemala over part of the Christmas break and are now back working on plans to help these farmers. Please go to the website and give our students your vote.

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Entrepreneurship as Community Builder

The Entrepreneurial Mind

It can help build communities. With donations from the community for funding, materials, equipment and time, the team began to implement its plan. More than 500 curious and excited students gathered to celebrate the grand opening and start the process of rebuilding the Union University community.

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The April cS Award and the March cS Award Winners!

crowdSPRING Blog

Back in 2011, we announced a monthly cS Award to honor quality work by designers and writers in the crowdSPRING community. We’ll choose the 5 -10 finalists that we like the best and put them up for a community vote. He currently lives in Guatemala but is originally from the U.S. The April cS Award. Good luck, everyone!

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6 Forward-thinking Businesses That Are Making the World a Better Place

Up and Running

Bonus points for the fact that they partner with the social enterprise Vision Spring to facilitate training for optometrists and eye glass manufacturers in the same countries that they donate glasses to (India, Guatemala, and Bangladesh to name a few), so the communities also receive opportunities for sustainable income.

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Bridging the Gap: How Semantic Web can move into the mainstream through SXSW

Austin Startup

It was a simple and extremely powerful idea, and SMW now encompasses an active worldwide developer community. We designed a search application using the Dublin Core, FOAF (Friend- of-a-Friend), and SIOC (Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities) vocabularies. and Human Computation: Ancient Mayan Legacy. General theme of Web 3.0

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28 Entrepreneurs Share Their Tips and Tricks of Staying Motivated

Hearpreneur

Responsibility to others is a key motivator for me: accountability to my family, my employees, my community, those I do business with and ultimately, my clients; we all rely on each other — our successes are interconnected. Don’t forget to join our #IamCEO Community. We hold each other accountable and encourage growth.