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Finance Fridays

Feld Thoughts

Kevin McCaffrey left his job as a strategy consultant in the Chicago office of McKinsey & Company to found Dot-to-Dot Children’s Books, a nonprofit social enterprise that works with children around the world to develop children’s books that are marketed to raise funding and awareness for the authors’ communities.

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Twitter Link Roundup #55 – Small Business, Social Media, Design, Copywriting, Marketing And More

crowdSPRING Blog

Community creative – how we contribute&# - [link]. Pathetic & embarrassing that the UN can’t stop raping of women in the Congo - [link]. Tags: Awesomeness How To Interviews Reviews Strategy Technology business community crowdsourcing design inspiration marketing social media start-up tips writing.

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Entrepreneurial events firm Summit Series acquires Utah’s Powder Mountain ski resort for $40m

The Next Web

In late 2011, Summit rallied the community to raise nearly $1 million to create a marine reserve the size of Manhattan in the island chain that hosted Summit at Sea. They helped the health technology company Basis raise its Series A through the Summit community. But once they saw Eden, Utah the decision to move solidified quickly.

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Solutions at the Eleventh Forbes Philanthropy Summit

ReadWriteStart

The presentation highlighted the importance of working with governments, financial institutions, and communities to mobilize resources, accelerate progress, and ensure the availability of clean water and sanitation availability for all. Which philanthropists received the Forbes 400 Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy?

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SXSW Startups: GoTech Puts Out Fires

Austin Startup

Based in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as well as Rwanda, GoTech is resolved to develop, design and implement solutions to help communities respond to fire. The idea is to create a network of devices, so communities can work together to snuff out a threat. What does GoTech hope to achieve in 2018?

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What Asia and Facebook’s Free Internet Project Have in Common?

Transformify

Although Mark Zuckerberg’s plea to the tech community to put those without basic Internet service before their interest in "the intellectual purity of technology" might not be completely altruistic, the positive effects of free Internet are tremendous. .” Women represent two-thirds of all illiterate adults globally.

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