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Story: Loan Program Helps ‘Unbanked’ Climb Economic Ladder

October 15, 2019

Written by Ronald D. Orol Published: Marketwatch.com on Nov. 10, 2009 Editor's Note: While we continue our work to support Emerge WorkPlace Solutions, a payday loan alternative delivered through employers...
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Story: Lexicographical Beneficence

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: While freerice.com seems to be waning in popularity (see Wikipedia update) I've long been charmed by the simplicity of this concept. It reminds us all that "a little...
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Story: For Homeless, A Home May Be The Best Rehab

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: This story from NPR inspires me. Jerry Skoch uses this unique premise with the homeless in his work (www.westsidecatholiccenter.org) on the near west side of Cleveland and I'm...
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Story: Excerpt from Bill Gate’s famous commencement address at Harvard in 2007

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: : I guess this really isn't a success story, per se, but this month's article is an excerpt from Bill Gate's famous commencement address at Harvard in 2007....
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Story: Entrepreneurship looked to as a way forward for ex-inmates

October 15, 2019

Written by Marcia Pledger Published: Sunday, October 10, 2010, cleveland.com Editor's Note: I enjoyed Ms. Pledger's article because we know Gus Turner and his sister and they are fine people....
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Story: Effective Funding: How foundations can best support social innovators

October 15, 2019

By Steven Lawry, Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2009 Issue Editor's Note: This article is particularly relevant to me now as I research and decide whether our foundation will back...
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Story: Crisis in Kenya Update-the Murder of Melitus Mugabe Were

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: International Partners in Mission (IPM) works across borders of faith and culture on behalf of children, women, and youth to create partnerships that build justice, peace, and hope....
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Story: Creating High-Impact Nonprofits

October 15, 2019

Written By Heather McLeod Grant & Leslie R. Crutchfield Published: Fall 2007 by Stanford Social Innovation Review Editor's Note: "Forces for Good" book was recommended and featured on website bookshelf...
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Story: Catalytic Philanthropy

October 15, 2019

Editor's Note: I shared this article with our foundation's board last week because Thomas Siebel's success is the kind I strive for. Siebel decided that money doesn't solve social problems,...
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Story: Bill Strickland: Role Model for Social Entrepreneurship

October 15, 2019

Published: January 03, 2007 in Knowledge@W.P. Carey Editor's Note: About a year ago, I ventured to Pittsburgh to see the Manchester Bidwell project first hand and talk with Bill Strickland...
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