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Top 3 Startup Winner: Digs

The Startup Magazine

My co-founder (Chad Johnson) and I are both architecture graduates, so housing has always been a passion of ours. I am a homeowner but my co-founder (Chad Johnson) is a renter, and one day we got talking about ways to assist renters in their journey to become homeowners. Team Info: Co-Founder: Pat McLoughlin.

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Five College Startups That Help Others

YoungUpstarts

Founder Josh Weingart started WaterDrop Shop while enrolled at Illinois State University. Founder Jaijeet Kakkar is a college student at UC Riverside but co-founded Imprue while still in high school. Founder Ben Lewis started the company while attending the University of Pennsylvania. Walk for good with WaterDrop Shop.

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Dallas Non-Profit, GrangouĀ Aims To Provide Permanent Home For Haitian Children

YFS Magazine

Grangou co-founders Mike and Carrie Gibson endeavor to raise $290,000 to purchase a permanent home for children in Haiti.

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This Week in NYC Innovation - February 22, 2010

This is going to be BIG.

We'll talk to experts across the industry, including chef Michael Anthony of Gramercy Tavern, Glenn Roberts, founder of Anson Mills, marketing whizzes from Rooster Design Group, and writer and Food52 co-founder Amanda Hesser. Will scientists rule the kitchen? The conference is free and open to the public.

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Austinā€™s opportunity to change Americaā€™s entrepreneurial narrative

Austin Startup

In 1991, ten-year-old Jerry and his family escaped civil war in Haiti and resettled in America as refugees. First, we need to intentionally recruit a different and broader pipeline of founders. Yet when we have a financial system that designs for one billionaire, and 99 broke founders, itā€™s no wonder inequality is at a 100-year high.

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Donating my birthday to build a home for a family in need #newstorycharity

Jeff Hilimire

Brett is the co-founder of New Story Charity , a site that describes their mission as: Our mission is to create life-changing stories that transform communities. In 2015, our focus is on funding 100 homes in Leveque, Haiti. Recently I had the opportunity to meet Brett (through Advice For Good).

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5 questions for New Story after a month in Y Combinator

Jeff Hilimire

I can’t tell you how excited I was when Brett Hagler , CEO and co-founder of New Story (funding life-changing houses for homeless families), told me that they were accepted into Y Combinator (YC). During the first week, the founders of Airbnb came to speak, and Brian (their CEO) said, “be shameless about asking for help.”

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