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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. Maryland was the first U.S.

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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. Chelsea Green Publishing, and Storey Publishing.

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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 As an entrepreneur, I get the opportunity each day to add pieces to my big puzzle by developing products, growing our team and ultimately finding the glue that holds all the pieces together (distribution!). We are the solution to their problem.

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35 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

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Corner Piece Productions doesn’t have its own website currently, but here’s the site for West of Her, which picked up five Best Narrative Feature awards over our festival tour this summer, along with rave review from critics across the country, and is set for wide video on demand distribution this year. Image Credit: Bryan Miles.

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