The Hidden Genius Project, founded in Oakland, California in 2012 is changing the paradigm of high black male unemployment coexisting in a job market with a plethora of available high paying, high tech jobs. The founders, five black male entrepreneurs and technologists, made this their mission. And in the years since the organization’s founding the …
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The Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (ELAW) helps communities speak out for clean air, clean water, and a healthy planet. Public interest lawyers from 10 countries launched the Environmental Law Alliance (ELaw) in 1991 These lawyers were working together at a public interest law conference at the University of Oregon School of Law. They realized that …
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Better Basics Birmingham Alabama – In 2019-2020, Better Basics served 21,987 students in 35 Central Alabama schools. And, for 2021 – 2022 the organization had 757 volunteers, served 22,000 children and gave away 70,000 books. According to the organization 16% of Alabamians are illiterate, 79% of the state’s kindergartners enter school not knowing all the letters …
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A social enterprise is a cause-driven business that sells products or services. The entity’s goal is to maximize profits while improving a set of social objectives and serving the common good. For Seattle-based social enterprise The Pastry Project their intent is to address barriers to education and employment in the world of baking. Founded in 2019 …
The importance of ethics in social media marketing is a conversation swirling around all of us whether you are aware of it or not. Layering social media marketing platforms on top of traditional marketing distribution channels means as marketers we are “changing the tire while driving at 90 miles an hour.” It also means we …
According to Bloomberg Green, roughly 2 billion people live in countries plagued by water problems, and almost two-thirds of the world could face water shortages in just four years. In the spirit and nature of commercialism and profit-making CME Group Inc sees dollars signs and a chance to make money by selling, the first of …
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In 2013, watching the documentary Urban Fruit by Roman Zenz. I was fascinated by the story of Rishi Kumar a highly educated engineer by training who gave up a promising career in information technology to choose a different path. Along with his mother they had transformed their once wasteful and nonproductive meticulously landscaped yard into …
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Rachel Micah-Jones interned for Sen. Frank Lautenberg, Democrat of New Jersey, and then worked on the Senate campaign of Oregon’s Ron Wyden, which stoked her interest in the law. While working in the Washington, D.C., public defender’s office, she saw that immigration laws ill-served her foreign-born clients. She began to think about combining her knowledge …
I honestly believe there is value for non-marketing friends and family in that message as well. This will be a short post. I know we are all about social media these days however we cannot overlook the ongoing significance of email as a marketing tool as well personal use. I actually invite you to go …
The question is posed as a blog post by Damona Hoffman on her popular Dates and Mates website and blog. Since founding Successful-Women-Blog.com I have shared my own business and lifestyle insights and, as you know, featured perspectives from Melissa Lanz, Dana LaRue, Kathryn Finney, Beverly Macy, Ann Handley and others. In this post I’d …
