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3 Ways To Build Philanthropy Into Your Culture

YoungUpstarts

Giving back does more than promote goodwill and provide a PR win. When Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in September 2017, it devastated the island. We drove around Puerto Rico in a couple of vans, not only delivering our products to schools damaged by the hurricane but assembling them with other volunteers.

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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

And he hooked me up with some volunteer PR people. It's some of the top PR people in the world. So yeah, so now we've got New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, LA, Miami, Washington, San Antonio, Dallas County, San Francisco. Eric Ries : Well that. Eric Ries : Yeah.