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Ep251: This Social Enterprise is Using Shea Butter to Grease Wheels of Progress for African Women

Selfish Giving

Her social enterprise Shea Yeleen markets and distributes high quality skincare products, while providing living wages to cooperative members in Northern Ghana. The line of shea butter products is being distributed through retailers such as Whole Foods, MGM Resorts and Amazon. Why did you decide to form a for-profit business?

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4 Sustainable Fundraising Revenue Streams for Nonprofits

Marketing for the Modern Nonprofit

Social Enterprise A social enterprise is a business designed to maximize profits and positively impact society and the environment. The profits generated from these enterprises are used to fund social programs or nonprofit causes. Not convinced that a social enterprise will work for you?

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Lauren Lawson-Zilai

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Lauren Lawson-Zilai is the director of public relations and national spokesperson for Goodwill Industries International , a social enterprise that provides job training to nearly ten million people a year through the sale of donated clothes and household goods. Tell us what you do in a typical day as a nonprofit communications pro.

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Day in the Life of a Nonprofit Communicator – Amanda Maksin

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

SDD is a social enterprise of the Westmoreland Community Action (a nonprofit in Greensburg, PA), and is located in Mount Pleasant, PA. Go over the theme for the newsletter, layout the photo-ops I need, and review pricing of retail items. Would YOU like to be featured in this series? It opened its doors in April 2012.

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Newsletter: Thinkers vs Feelers vs Deferrers ; IKEA Encourages School Kids to Bully Plant ; Why Does This Bee Have a QR Code Glued to It?

Selfish Giving

Foot Locker CEO: Consumers are missing the point on the "retail apocalypse." Retailers are closing stores so they can open fewer but better ones. Speaking of retail closings, Retail Dive is keeping an updated list of retail bankruptcies. For Nonprofit Quarterly , "Social Enterprise" is a dirty word.

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SEO and SEM for Your Nonprofit Organization: Understanding the Basics

Nonprofit Marketing Insights by GlobalOwls

This includes holding a fun run, a charity event , or placing donation boxes in retail stores and shops. Get Free Stock Photos for your Nonprofit, NGO or Social Enterprise. Building a Strong Brand for Nonprofit Organizations, NGOs and Social Enterprises. I’m really looking forward to reading your comments.

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The Invisible Rural Access Barrier

Stanford Social Innovation Review

World Bicycle Relief (WBR), a nonprofit social enterprise (where the other two authors of this article work) helps to solve that challenge by distributing bicycles to individuals like the three women above.