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What is a Social Enterprise?

Up and Running

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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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

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In partnership with the executive team, Lorie designed MassMutual’s first diversity and inclusion strategy, focused on Leadership, Marketplace & Distribution, and Workforce & Workplace. Lorie, you were raised in Hawaii where inclusion and belonging are a way of life. in Organizational Behavior.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

We believe in collaborating with industry leaders, working with innovative companies and directly engaging with our community and audience to ensure we are building out valuable resources they can use daily to improve health & safety within their respective companies. 9- Be the #1 Small Giant in Hawaii. Photo Credit: Raven Beria.

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All Investing Has Impact

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blacks and whites use marijuana at comparable rates." " Yet in all states but Hawaii, blacks are more likely than whites to be arrested for marijuana offenses." So, on one hand, the move towards decriminalization is great for minority communities, the economic opportunities created are unevenly distributed. it mentioned.

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Indivisible: How A 23-Page Google Doc Gave Birth To A National Progressive Movement

Hunter Walker

What does Indivisible “HQ” provide to these groups and is there a tension between a centrally managed message versus distributed action? They are not “astroturf” or “paid protesters” — they are real constituents, leading real resistance efforts in their communities. HW: I see lots of local Indivisible groups.

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

Before that I was an equal partner in Kaggle, which is a popular data science competition community. So plenty of dark bits, but also this weird discovery that you can create incredibly close connections with people that I've never met before and build a global community of people who want nothing more than to help save lives.