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How Can Social Entrepreneurs Sell a Product While Promoting a Cause?
These 8 mission-driven founders share their expertise.
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Do All Superheroes Wear Capes? No, But Anyone Can Still Be a Hero.
A wonderful, feel-good fact: Mike Ilitch, the late founder of Little Caesars, paid Rosa Parks's rent for more than a decade.
Building a Business
The Case for Corporate Citizenship
A corporate conscience is compatible with profit and other values not so easily measured.
By Igor Makarov
Building a Business
You Grew Your Startup, Now Build Your Advisory Board
No company is complete without an advisory board. Here's how to build one.
Thought Leaders
The Business of Volunteering Is Business for Millennials
The largest cohort in today's workforce seeks both meaningful employment and employers whose values align with their own.
By Sagi Shahar
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Why a Tech CEO Toured the South With the San Francisco Gay Men’s Chorus
Supporting a cause you believe in should mean more than just writing a check.
By Mikkel Svane
Building a Business
Small Businesses That Consider Social Impact Will See One to Their Bottom Line
Corporate social responsibility is gaining currency worldwide. The reasons are not far-fetched, but there is something in it for business owners, too.
By Ali Faagba
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Corporate Social Responsibility Can Actually Be a Competitive Advantage, So Where’s Your CSR Program?
Here are six companies leading the way in CSR not just because it's trendy but because it's the right thing to do.
Marketing
How to Create Socially Aware Video Content Without Coming Across as Fake
Make sure your video goes viral for the right reasons.
By Kristi Dosh
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5 Lessons on Taking a Stand You Can Learn From Patagonia
While some businesses may be left with the feeling that they can't be so bold, more and more, your customers expect you to stand for something.
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Giving Back Is How Your Startup Changes the World
A vision company with vision goes beyond 'buy-one, give-one,' to create a self-sustaining diagnostic and education program.
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You Don’t Have to Be All That Corporate to Make an Impact With Corporate Social Responsibility
Small businesses are making a big splash with their mission-driven awareness in social responsibility.
By Carolyn Rodz
Building a Business
Got a Do-Gooder Gene? 3 Tips for Launching a Successful CSR Initiative
Finding the right cause and partnerships means your good deeds won't go unnoticed.
By Kevin Xu
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4 Ways to Engage Your Customers in Social Good — And Why It Matters
Many companies weave social good into business, but most struggle to make customers aware.
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Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship from the People Making a Real Impact
There is clearly a balance to be struck between making a profit and making an impact (of the social variety). How do you straddle that line?
By Peter Gasca
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10 Ways Small Businesses Can Give Back Without Breaking the Bank
Helping improve your community or bolster a cause you believe in is probably the most satisfying way there is to market your business.
By John Rampton
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The Best Way to Move Your Excess Inventory
Donating inventory instantly frees up warehouse space and it can provide your company with a tax deduction.
Thought Leaders
5 Reasons to Become a Benefit Corporation
Benefit corporations aspire to use the power of markets to solve social and environmental problems.
Thought Leaders
6 Ways to Take Your Business from Profit to Purpose
Here are the guiding principles that have allowed our company to be more than just another player in the industry.
By Matt Hesse
Marketing
5 Lessons From the Great Pepsi Shakeup
Hitching your advertising to a trendy topic has great potential, both for better and worse.
Marketing
5 Ways Businesses Can Reach ‘Generation Z’
Gen Z is proving to be a voice of acceptance and change. Is your company appealing to its members in ways that will work?
By Kelly Lovell
Thought Leaders
3 Tips for Making Social Responsibility a Priority at Your Startup
Learning to seek profits in an ethical manner will not only help the world at large; it will help your bottom line.
Online Presence
How to Keep Younger Team Members on Task Instead of Snapchat
Channel their passion and desire for meaningful work into projects that give them real opportunities to gain leadership experience.
Building a Business
4 Reasons Small Business Owners Should Let Millennials Have Their Way
A new generation of employees is taking over the workforce. Strategic thinking demands you discover their gifts and inclinations before your competitors do.
By Carol Roth
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5 Lessons We Can All Learn From This Entrepreneur’s Philanthropic Journey
Entrepreneurial success can afford a person many things, the most fulfilling of which is making lives and the world around us better without need for profit.
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4 Ways Employers are Using Corporate Social Responsibility To Recruit Millennials
This holiday season, let's use the good things our companies do to attract the employees we want.