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ESG: Why Should Community Banks Care?

Board Effect

The media is reporting on ESG matters ubiquitously, and that should spark the interest of your community bank board. The fact that investors have put four times more money into ESG investment funds in 2020 than the previous year is another clue that community bank boards should consider the impact of ESG initiatives. What Is ESG?

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Book: Where The Jobs Are

Feld Thoughts

If you disagree with any, or have any to add, please toss them in the comments as I evolve this as a list of “ways government can help startup communities.” Launch an Education Reform Dialogue Among America’s Educators. Award “Graduation” Green Cards. Jump-Start America’s Trade Agenda.

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The 20 Coolest CoWorking Spaces In The U.S.

YoungUpstarts

With free coffee and Internet, workspaces, and built-in community, coworking spaces provide a great place to get things done without feeling the isolation of working at home, or trying to overcome the frenetic nature of working in a coffee shop. Seattleites can enjoy this community-oriented coworking and shared office space.

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Seven Small (But Sweet) Ways To Show Your Community Some Love In Time for Valentine’s Day 

YoungUpstarts

by Quint Studer, author of “ Building A Vibrant Community: How Citizen-Powered Change Is Reshaping America “. You love your community. And (to put it in Valentine’s Day terms) you want others to love your community as much as you do. The same is true on a community level. It’s home.

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Sustainable Design Can Help Your Small Business and Improve the Environment

crowdSPRING Blog

Sustainable business , or a green business , is a business that strives to create the smallest amount of impact on the environment as possible. It refers to any design concept that has a minimal negative impact on its environment, community, and economy. Choose green materials. Here’s how… What is sustainable design?

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Austin’s CodeNEXT

Austin Startup

Barriers to the physical environment and to accessible information and communication impede their enjoyment of basic urban services; from housing to roads and public spaces, from public buildings to basic urban services such as sanitation and water, health, education, transportation, emergency and disaster response and resilience.

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Small Business Spotlight: Rent A Green Box

crowdSPRING Blog

This week’s Small Business Spotlight has an answer to that and is headed up by a crowdSPRING community mainstay– Spencer Brown! Rent A Green Box solves a problem for someone moving and a problem for the Earth. I buy post-consumer and industrial trash from landfills, recycling centers, and industries across America.

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