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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. Social Enterprise UK .

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

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It was this same high-minded collective action that created a network of publicly owned hospitals – controlled by cities, counties, districts, boroughs (in Alaska), parishes (in Louisiana), etc. They seek to modernized a facility and retool for a tighter, more effective operations. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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

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What is an L3C?

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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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Top Social Media Measurement and Tracking Tools

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Operations. Distribution. Circulation/Audience Development. Art/Creative/Design. Finance/Accounting. Business Development. Web/Internet/IT/eMedia. Marketing/Communications/PR. Production/Printing/Manufacturing. Companys Focus. Association Publishing. B2B Publishing. City & Regional Publishing. Electronic Data Publisher. California.

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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

So I was always doing linear programming and operations research stuff, and regression models and whatever to try to solve corporate strategy problems. The fact that Mardi Gras went ahead in Louisiana, despite really as the pandemic was kicking off and now it's been so badly hit. We found each other. Louis I think it was.

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111 Great Last Minute Gift Ideas For Clients

Mike Michalowicz

100% of your contribution goes directly to purchasing bed nets, distributing them, and educating communities on how to use them. This South Louisiana coffee house has them all. A great gift for your clients would a short, funny video about how your company operates, how it values its customers, and what the real company culture is.

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