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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

It donates the products to impoverished people, preventing millions of hygiene-related deaths each year and encouraging vigorous childhood development (Clean the World, 2015). Clean the World is a nonprofit organization that collects and recycles discarded soap and hygiene products (Clean the World, 2015).

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Writing for Change Conference: An Interview with Elizabeth Pomada

Have Fun - Do Good

We also have Ernest Callenbach , who wrote the first book on the environment, Ecotopia. We have Angus Wright , who does books about the political environment in Brazil and saving the rainforest for the world. The environment? We're tired of hearing people overcoming their horrible childhood, because it's too much.

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

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Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. s homeless population. Their Integrated Care Center is a new model for delivering healthcare and wellness programs to low-income and homeless people.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

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Despite her family's affluence, Lorraine Hansberry's childhood in Chicago during the 1930s was not without hardship, discrimination, and segregation. At just 10 years old, Bouler, moved by the scenes of destruction following the Gulf Coast oil spill, channeled her love of art and the environment to bring attention to the environmental crisis.

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