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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. Maryland was the first U.S.

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Workplace Flexibility Boosts Remote Teams’ Loyalty

Transformify

We found an extreme talent in Adeel Ahmad who worked between Lahore, Pakistan and Chicago, Illinois at the time. Working with remote and distributed teams requires increased time for purposeful communication to make up for what you lose when you are not in close physical proximity to your team.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ?

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

Board Effect

Illinois residents are currently under a Stay in Place Order until April 30 th. For the safety of the residents, the executive director has ceased distribution of the newsletter and redirected residents to an internet page where they can get information on how to keep themselves safe, get help for home repairs, and pay their rent.

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These Online Programs Will Make You Rethink How You Can Improve Your Business Skills

crowdSPRING Blog

” Digital Marketing, offered by the University of Illinois. “Acquire a new set of stories, concepts, and tools to help you digitally create, distribute, promote and price products and services.” ” Udemy. Want to learn how to create a demo video in Apple’s Keynote ?

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

The Startup Magazine

From California, to Illinois, and New York many of the largest U.S. municipalities are also the most fiscally troubled. Some of the country’s greatest cities are on the brink of calamity. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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What is an L3C?

Up and Running

Currently, you can form an L3C in Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, and Wyoming, and in the federal jurisdictions of the Crow Indian Nation of Montana, and the Oglala Sioux Tribe. The idea is that the L3C structure paves the way for some of this money to be invested in L3Cs.

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