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5 Tips for Making Time to Make a Difference

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Vishal Chordia (pictured above, right, with Kimberley Hickok-Smith) was awarded the 2018 EO Global Citizen of the Year award in Toronto, Canada, in April 2018. We recently talked with him about making time for charity beyond his busy professional and family commitments. .

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Rihanna’s Savage X Fenty and a newer startup, FIT:MATCH, team up to sell better-fitting lingerie

TechCrunch

from Cornell’s College of Human Ecology. After all, like FIT:MATCH, the lingerie brand is still quite young, having been founded less than five years ago in the spring of 2018. Cornell has since licensed three of the patents on which she worked to FIT:MATCH.)

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AI-powered supply chain visibility platform Altana bags $100M

TechCrunch

” Altana was founded by Smith, Raphael Tehranian, Peter Swartz and Alan Bersin in December 2018. Prior to Altana, Smith, Tehranian and Swartz were with Panjiva, a global trade data company, which S&P acquired in 2018. Bersin was assistant secretary in the office of policy at the U.S.

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Holey Grail Donuts bites into $9M for Los Angeles retail expansion

TechCrunch

Holey Grail Donuts started selling its hand-fried, made-to-order taro donuts on Sunday mornings out of a little red burger trailer in Kauai in 2018. Dreiling, who was previously doing ecological engineering in Oregon, teamed up with his sister, Hana Dreiling, a private chef in Kauai, Hawaii, to start Holey Grail Donuts.

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Accelerating Sustainable Food Business Solutions to Reshape Our Cities

Impact Hub

In 2018, Impact Hub King’s Cross kicked off an incubation program for UK-based social entrepreneurs aiming to combat the key challenges in our urban food systems. It is clear that without rapid innovation on a global scale, what we eat in our cities and how we produce it poses an existential challenge. Photo: Sutton Community Farm.

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20 Years of Investing in Startups

Paul G. Silva

PV Grows A collaborative network dedicated to enhancing the ecological and economic sustainability and vitality of the Pioneer Valley food system. 2018 Libboo Accelerating great stories and big ideas. KNOX Knox created Frictionless Ownership to make owning investment property as simple as owning a share of stock.

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How to avoid greenwashing your business

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

María Suriano, a 2018 YLAI Fellow, is the founder of Masshii , a wearable art and ethical jewelry company that uses unconventional materials and creates fair employment opportunities for at-risk women in El Salvador. Here are some other ways you can be more sustainable and start to green your business. . The organization ??defends