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What Is the Difference Between Leadership and Management for a Nonprofit?

Board Effect

The former governor of Arkansas, Mike Huckabee , said: “A leader is the one who can outline the broad vision and the direction, and say here’s where we are going to go, here’s why we need to go there, and here’s how we are going to get there. Board development usually falls under the nominating and governance committee.

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Reasons to Trust Your Property Management to Professionals

The Startup Magazine

Evernest has an established reputation for their property management assistance in Jackson, with locations in Mississippi’s neighboring states of Arkansas, Alabama, and Tennessee. Property management companies develop close relationships with contractors and service providers who do repairs and maintenance work.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

One social enterprise that embodies this model is InStove, an organization that sustainably makes the world’s most efficient stove, for use primarily in developing nations where fossil fuels and electricity are scarce, and walking long distances to gather wood can be dangerous. Here in the U.S. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Pre-College Checklist: Ten Tips To Help You Hit The Ground Running

YoungUpstarts

But if you have a chance to do an internship, job, or community project that develops your interests or career plans — well, that’s a great way to spend a summer too. Jacobs is professor of Art History at the University of Arkansas. You’ll arrive rested and ready to work if you’ve given yourself some R & R over the summer.

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Denventory.com: Keeping Track Of What You Own

YoungUpstarts

Kelly, a 2010 Information Technology graduate of the University of Arkansas in Fort Smith, founded and developed Denventory after experiencing firsthand the overwhelming task of creating a home inventory. A synchronous mobile application is already in development,” he adds.

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Students To Make Biodegradable Plastic Bags A Reality

YoungUpstarts

But not if four University of Arkansas student have anything to say about that – the founders of cycleWood Solutions Inc. Most plastic bags we use today will either get incinerated or end up in a landfill somewhere. intends to make biodegradable plastic shopping bags into reality.

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March 3-6, Birmingham, AL: Alternative Investing Conference

David Teten

This conference is an evolution of the Alternative Investment Roundup that the executives at SSBC designed, developed and ran each February in Arizona from 1997 through 2008. Gail Stone , Executive Director, Arkansas Public Employees Retirement System (APERS). My Partner John Frankel and I are both speaking.

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