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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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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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Can Cities Be the Source of Scalable Innovations?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Social enterprises such as car-sharing programs are changing the nature of urban transportation and providing alternative options to individual car ownership. In turn, they can shape the actions of mainstream businesses in the city that tend to adopt social innovations more slowly.

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Gumbo for the Struggle: Recipes of Liberation from the Cultural Kitchen

NonProfit Quarterly

Through a series of successfully negotiated community benefit agreements , BAMBD CDC has ensured the addition of low-income housing and below-market rate retail spaces to private developments. Four Blacspace members lead those organizations, while our other two members are also deeply connected to Oakland’s Black arts community.

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Newsletter: Lessons from NPR's Fact-Checking of Water.org's Super Bowl Ad

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. Cause Marketing 1.

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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The National Retail Federation expects online holiday sales in the United States to shatter previous records by reaching at least $218.3 By shopping at any of the 64 online stores listed below, socially conscious and ethical consumers can channel some of their spending power this holiday season into the nonprofit sector and the Greater Good.

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