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One woman’s path to financial empowerment leads the way

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

What is the role that ThrivingDollars plays within your community? At the beginning of 2015, I started a “figure-it-out fund” and used a percentage of Accessories & Essentials’ sales over the next few months to finance it. Create community.

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Why We Invested in @FerrisApp – A New Kind of Video Sharing App

Both Sides of the Table

Fourth: Where Ferris really shines is collaboration. Imagine if your friends could all contribute the Burning Man 2015 album and create a group story. We thought we’d try to get some feedback from product-oriented user community at Product Hunt (and then we also announced on TechCrunch of course). is non trivial.

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Startup Recruiting Hacks

This is going to be BIG.

One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices.

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Feeding the Hungry, Despite National Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

This is just the latest example from many years the Karma Foundation has been making a difference in the community. Karma Foundation is primarily focused on community development across the entire socio-economic spectrum. Since October 2015, we’ve fed approximately 50,000 people. Tell us more about Karma Foundation.

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Docquity, a community for healthcare professionals, raises $44M Series C

TechCrunch

Docquity was created to help doctors collaborate in the same way, at scale, even if they live in different countries. Docquity was founded in 2015 so doctors and other healthcare professionals have an easier way of working with one another. The new capital brings Docquity’s total raised to $57.5

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Case Study: The Dan River Region Ecosystem Development

Ecosystem Builder Hub

According to Diana Schwartz, Executive Director at River District Association, economic and societal shifts were having an enormous impact on the community’s economy, “For over 100 years, Danville, Virginia , has been a textile and tobacco powerhouse, and that is what the local economy depended on heavily for the majority of that time.

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6 Steps To Become a More People-Centered Company

Entrepreneurs' Organization

In 2015, Bob and Mike came to him seeking to create meaningful change within their company, with a single question on their minds: What could BIGGBY do that would change the world? By 2017, the majority of employees reported significant improvements in how they were treated, a stark contrast from their response in 2015.

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