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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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Tapping the Strength of Intergenerational Living During a Crisis: A Nonprofit Board President’s View

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The residents at Hope Meadows in Rantoul, IL chose their community before they chose their home. In fact, the residents of this little community do a lot of things differently than most people because their neighborhood was established on a principle called, “intentional neighboring.”. In the Beginning.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

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From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. The most common way for a public hospital to become part of a larger health system (whether community nonprofit, faith based, or for-profit) is by using a lease structure, rather than an outright sale of stock or assets. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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What is an L3C?

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The United Kingdom began using a similar structure in 2005, called a Community Interest Company. His organization, Americans for Community Development, provides detailed information about L3Cs, and you can find out more about the organization on their website. . In 2008 in the U.S.,

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

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When you support that platform with inspirational and informative subject matter that helps guide people along the way, and then offer them a community of service providers who can help round out their team—well, that’s the ticket. We are transforming publishing for the 21st century. That’s massive. 9) Horrible Experience.

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

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