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Entrepreneurs give twice as much of their profits to charity!
What we suspected is true! A recent study by Fidelity has found that entrepreneurs give 3% of corporate profits to charity -- More than TWICE the 1.2 % of profits among the nation’s largest companies. Fidelity surveyd 146 entrepreneurs who had won awards from Ernst & Young (we know who…
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Main Fish Pies - delicious entrepreneurship
(Full disclosure... the father of the foundation's Executive Director is helping to start this company....) From the Maine Times! Fish Pies saving communities! (Maine Fresh is the actual brand, but this is what they were called until the marketing people stepped in. Good thing...) Here is the article. If you…
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Enlighten Entrepreneurs! (NYT)
This NY Times piece is a great description of our 'Enlightened Entrepreneurs' efforts. Businesses - especially small ones and start ups - are adopting new strategies to pursue charitable goals as donating cash becomes less viable. What they are doing is the very core of our efforts - skills based volunteering,…
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Social entrepreneurs? Or sell outs?
When does our drive for entrepreneurship go too far? the Newark New Jersey The Star-Ledger, reports here that a local for-profit retailer is purchasing used clothing en masse from local charities ( including the Lupus Foundation of America and the United War Veterans Council )" at a bulk rate" and…
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How to make museums relevent
One of our Social Innovation Challenge participants in the Utah Symphony/ Utah Opera. They, like other large cultural institutions, need to attract new, younger and more diverse audiences. This morning's Wall Street Journal has a series of interviews with art museum chiefs in their 30s and 40s,about their techniques including…
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