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Want to Participate in Giving Tuesday? This Guide Explains Everything About Donations, Deductions and Volunteering

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How to participate in Giving Tuesday: Start local A good first step is to comb your social networks. Oasis, A Haven for Women and Children Oasis, A Haven for Women and Children , located in Paterson, New Jersey, works to break the cycle of poverty by providing meals, social support, clothing and education.

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Menswear With Meaning: Fashion Brand INHERENT Is Dedicated to Improving Men’s Mental Wellness

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While the idea of opening a men’s clothing store had come to Draper before, it didn’t fully take shape right away. He says those same base principles of design, such as color theory and hierarchy, translate well to clothing. In 2017, he found himself in a mentally rough spot. Draper has witnessed it himself countless times.

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Rachel Ceruti Is Curbing Environmental Waste By Upcycling Clothes

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Growing up, Rachel Ceruti had an appreciation for the environment, but she didn’t consider herself an environmentalist nor had she started upcycling clothes. While she was there, she learned about how secondhand clothing is shipped to Africa and then ends up in landfills. “We What is upcycled clothing?

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Achieving Success Comes Down to One Thing: Connecting With People

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In my case, I found success only after doing something I typically dread : networking. Over time, dread turned to desire, and I not only started to benefit from networking , I started to enjoy it. So I began helping others connect within the community too, attending lunches and speaking at networking events.

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Poshmark and the Rise of Social Selling

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Poshmark is a social e-commerce platform where people buy and sell secondhand goods, mostly used clothes.     But the growth of social media has made it easier and cheaper for consumers to leverage their networks to sell things.    It went public last week and closed its first trading day worth $3 billion.  

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Sustainability, Well-being, and the Building Blocks of a Biophilic Workplace

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Creating a network of usable outdoor spaces that are hyper specific to surrounding microclimates can introduce novel ways of working in the workplace that cannot be replicated at home or in traditional office buildings. In the outdoor green offices, plugs and IT access remain present with more casual seating.

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8 Niche Careers You Didn’t Even Know Existed

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Imagine the next time you ask someone what they do for a living and they respond, “Oh, I test waterslides for a living,” or “I study the curious contents found in the pockets of antique clothing.” She became an expert in this part of her industry through networking after designing a fraternity house refresh. It’s very gratifying.”

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