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The Making a Difference Foundation Ensures People Without Housing Aren’t Without Good Meals

Success

Eloise’s Cooking Pot Food Bank was established in 2008, and today, it’s the largest independent food bank in Pierce County, Washington, serving more than 70,000 people per month. Aside from providing quality food to those in need, they offer classes on how to shop for and prepare healthy and delicious food on a budget.

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The Evolution of Bertony Faustin, Oregon’s First Black Winemaker

Success

Though he longed to rebel from these prescribed ideas, his guilt of never being enough led him to attempt a pre-med path, only to stop and start classes enough times to realize it was never going to happen. I was the only one in the class who actually had a vineyard.” It’s a fact that changed the way Faustin shows up. Like, literally.

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Do You Know Your Lifestyle Ratios?

Stephanie LH Calahan

It might be fun to come up with a few lifestyle ratios to help you measure and move toward your personal goals.  Revenues that are partially leveraged include group programs such as classes and events like webinars and conferences as well as hourly consulting that your staff performs with your limited oversight. Training classes.

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How Three Post-Secondary Programs Are Setting Autistic Individuals on a Path to Success

Success

There are no longer any classes to go to. So, the duo founded nonPareil Institute, a post-secondary training institute, in 2008. In 2008, World Golf Hall of Famer Ernie Els and his wife Liezl Els went public with their son Ben’s autism diagnosis. That new reality can be isolating. They are on their own.

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The Democratization of Wealth Work

Small Business Labs

The Brookings Institute's Who’s employed by the lifestyles of the rich and famous? Key quote from the Associated Press article Richer US households fueling a hot job sector: ‘wealth work’ : The main driver of growth in these jobs is the expansion of the upper-middle class. We first wrote about this trend in 2008.

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Pre Budget Report: Labour Darling Plays Class War Trump Card

The Small Business Blog

Pre Budget Report: Labour Darling Plays Class War Trump Card by Stefan Töpfer on Dec 09, 2009 In an unprecedented weak budget spiked with half truths, Mr Darling is trying to ignite a class war in the UK in an attempt to boost the Labour Party election prospects – a dangerous game to play with our fragile economy at this time.

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Winners – Small Business Quote of the Week

The Small Business Blog

“The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won, but to have fought well. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo! Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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