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The Creative Professional's Marketing Plan and Calendar
| August 23, 2010
Having Marketing Mentor’s Start Anytime Marketing Plan + Calendar is like having your marketing “to do list” already filled out for you for the entire year! You’ll know how much time to spend on your marketing every week, how many prospects to contact, how much time to spend on the phone, when to launch an e-mail campaign…and when to reward yourself for a job well done.
Marketing Mentor Toolbox
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American Independent Business Alliance
| June 16, 2010
The American Independent Business Alliance is a national 501c3 non-profit organization helping communities launch and successfully operate an Independent Business Alliance® (IBA), "buy independent, buy local" campaigns, and other efforts to support community enterprise.
AMIBA
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InVenture Fund
| June 3, 2010
InVenture is a micro venture capital fund that empowers businesses to lift their communities out of poverty
InVenture: Invest in Good
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REWORK: The new business book from 37Signals
| April 4, 2010
Finally, someone's saying what we've all been thinking. Don't throw out all the lessons you've heard from a previous generation of business-makers and owners, just remember you're not running their kind of business. This is the new way of approaching work, the future of entrepreneurship, and a massive call to believe in yourself. Brief, to the point, and fantastically illustrated... with a Sharpie.
http://37signals.com/rework/
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RISE: The Voice of the South West England Social Enterprise
| January 15, 2010
RISE is the voice for South West England social enterprise and supports the development of sustainable social enterprises in the region.
http://www.rise-sw.co.uk
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Village Capital
| December 29, 2009
Inspired by the village bank model used in microfinance throughout the world, Village Capital is an innovative investment model built on the hypothesis that entrepreneurs, working intimately together and providing peer support to one another, will be able to efficiently and wisely allocate investment to one another’s companies.
http://www.vilcap.com/
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The New Rules Project
| December 28, 2009
The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) proposes a set of new rules that builds community by supporting humanly scaled politics and economics. The rules call for: Decisions made by those impactedCommunities accepting responsibility for the welfare of their members and the next generation Households and communities possessing or owning sufficient productive capacity to generate real wealth
http://www.newrules.org/
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Ashoka's Changemakers
| December 28, 2009
Changemakers is a community of action where we all collaborate on solutions. We know we have the power to solve the world’s most pressing social problems. We’re already doing it, one project, one idea at a time.
http://www.changemakers.com/
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Unreasonable Institute | Incubating and Investing in Social Entrepreneurs
| December 28, 2009
"What we do: We unite up to 25 high-impact social entrepreneurs from around the world to attend our intensive 10-week summer institute. There, we will incubate their ventures with rigorous skill training and expert mentorship. At the end of the ten weeks, we will connect our Fellows with the start-up capital and global network of support needed to give their ventures wings."
http://unreasonableinstitute.org/
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SSE - School for Social Entrepreneurs
| December 28, 2009
The School for Social Entrepreneurs exists to provide training and opportunities to enable people to use their creative and entrepreneurial abilities more fully for social benefit. We also want to recruit more innovative and capable people into voluntary and other organisations.
http://www.sse.org.uk/