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30 Entrepreneurs Explain How They are Incorporating Social Entrepreneurship in Their Business

Hearpreneur

2- Recruiting the unemployed from Africa. I work on meeting with people, especially those in vulnerable communities, to help educate them on this topic. Our educational campaigns don’t just teach people the benefits of cannabis. Thanks to Jeremy Yamaguchi, Lawn Love ! #2- Photo Credit: Olu Ojo. Thanks to Olu Ojo, Frenz Hub ! #3-

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Business

Hearpreneur

We launched our first campaign and got an incredible amount of support and funding for our product. We have now grown into an overnight hit, as we had built up a huge community of black women with skin conditions years before even launching Topicals. into a business that eventually failed. That’s how I started Cerebrum Infotech.

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10+ Trends: Recap of 2011 and What’s Next…

thebarefootvc

Women Rising: Microfinance institutions have known for years that women have higher repayment rates than men and that women are more likely to invest the borrowed capital back into their families and local communities. Nothing seems impossible anymore. What’s Next in 2012….

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How Black People Leveraged Tech Bigotry to Boss the Blockchain Below the Radar

Austin Startup

The African-American community with a global movement known as the Afro-Tech quietly mastered blockchain/distributed ledger technology several years ago to benefit urban communities. You need a community and ecosystem that adopts and use your tech.

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Making a Difference Through Your Career

Women Entrepreneurs Can

Choosing a career that allows you to give back to your community or take other measures to make the world a better place takes some thought. Many people volunteer to build schools or teach English in Africa or Central America. There may be many communities near you or just a state or two away that could use your help.

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In Times of Pandemic, In Gates We Trust

Reid Hoffman

On January 29th, the Gates Foundation pledged $10 million “to help frontline responders in China and Africa accelerate their efforts to contain the global spread.”. In addition, Bill supported the Seattle Flu Study, which launched in 2019 to learn how the flu and other respiratory illnesses spread through local communities.

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12 Questions: Meet Angus Griffin (England)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. Plainly – activities that make crowdSPRING a better community. That ended up being 13 years.