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What is a Social Enterprise?

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An excellent example of a social enterprise is The Empowerment Plan —an organization that hires people currently living in homeless shelters to create a combination winter coat, sleeping bag, and over-the-shoulder bag, which is then distributed to the homeless of Detroit free of charge. Here in the U.S. Maryland was the first U.S.

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29 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why They Love Their Business

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Image Credit: Dan Green. Thanks to Dan Green, Growella ! #10 I love being an entrepreneur because it allows me to give back in meaningful and impactful ways to my community. I am also able to work from anywhere and I am solving a unique need within my community. We are the solution to their problem.

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How to Start a Farm: Your Complete Guide to Success

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Say you start the passion fruit farm you’ve been dreaming of for years in your home state in Florida. If you’d taken the time to do your market research, you would have learned there was no demand for passion fruit in Florida. Farming used to be so much more about community. Farm manager Greg Heilers says, “Meet your neighbors.