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Exploring the Role of Apprenticeship in Today’s Economy with Tal Frankfurt + Robert Lerman

Cloud 4 Good

Additionally, apprenticeships are more structured and skill-specific than internships. We’re familiar with the concept of option values in the context of stocks, in that option value of stocks is generated from the possibility that certain stocks will become profitable, and we can then exercise that option on the stock.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

One answer to these questions may be the social enterprise model, which has the potential to revolutionize both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors. Social enterprises are for-profit or nonprofit businesses whose products and services address major unmet needs of society. What are the downsides and dangers in pursuing new models?

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Benefit Corporations: Back to Purpose

Tech Soup

Profits were allowed, but they were legitimized by the mission within the business charter. In modern-day America, businesses are held legally accountable to maximize profits for shareholders, frequently at the exclusion of all else. A structure has emerged to serve this purpose, called the Benefit Corporation.

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What Can Salesforce Do for Education?

Cloud 4 Good

The series of events that led the University of Vermont (UVM) to Salesforce, and a partnership with Cloud for Good, was both unexpected and unprecedented. . The University of Vermont (UVM) implemented Service Cloud as part of a multi-phased release to help facilitate the UVM vision of a connected campus. Read More ».

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