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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

“Our best chance to make the world better is to agree that the choice among corporate structures should be made entirely in service of social impact,” says Rich Leimsider, the Vice President of Fellowship Programs at Echoing Green, a nonprofit that invests with social entrepreneurs. Maryland was the first U.S.

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A Good Answer in a Business Plan Contest

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I already said I was the judge in the story above, and the business was Green Valley Solar , which ended up in third place, and impressed the heck out of the five of us tasked with judging that track. They’re from the University of Arkansas. First, because they came out ahead of Green Valley Solar.

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Happy 81st Birthday Dad

Feld Thoughts

He loves the color green. I was assigned to Blytheville, Arkansas. Cecelia and I had to go to the library to get a map and find Blytheville, Arkansas. Blytheville, Arkansas turned out to be a glorious experience for two kids that had never lived outside of New York City and its environs. My dad turns 81 today.

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What Is a Benefit Corporation?

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Now, you can create a benefit corporation in: Arkansas, California, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington D.C., with many more states in the pending legislation phase.

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The National Science Foundation Innovation Corps – What America Does Best

Steve Blank

Principal Investigator: Nilanjan Banerjee University of Arkansas. SwiftVax – A Green Manufacturing Platform for Faster, Cheaper, and Scalable Vaccine Manufacturing. Principal Investigator: Elizabeth Mynatt ( mynatt@cc.gatech.edu ); Georgia Tech Research Corporation.

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