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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. What about the rest of us?

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How Electric Companies Are Supporting Energy Conservation Efforts

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Reliable Electricity Energy reliability is a key driver of business and personal activities, enabling us to operate appliances, heat our homes, and work when we want to. A reliable electric power system requires sufficient electricity generation adequacy, robust power system infrastructure, and utility financial and operational performance.

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The Story Of A Young Entrepreneur Building A Better World With A Nonprofit

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Camden is the Founder and CEO of the Nonprofit Organization Beyond the Crisis Beyond the Crisis, the food-distribution charity, which has distributed over 100,000 dollars of food items to housing communities and homeless shelters across Massachusetts. This is John Jan, and my guest today is Camden Francis.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

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The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, also known as “The Bean” to loyal customers, is a Los Angeles based, family-run coffee and tea company that’s owned and operated by International Coffee & Tea, LLC. Party Pieces grew rapidly and the Middletons moved their operations to three converted farm buildings outside of London.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: Akamai

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Incorporated in 1998 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the company’s network of over 100,000 globally distributed servers provides an infrastructure layer that accelerates the distribution and delivery of content, media and applications. Many people know Akamai as the purveyor of the Internet’s backbone. Founding Akamai.

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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

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The University of Texas System is the third most innovative university in the world , behind only the University of California system and Massachusetts Institute of Technology in intellectual property patents. UT Austin, UT Dallas, and Baylor University are top ranked as well. Texas dominates every top ten list.

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