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3 Companies That Give Back to the Community Year-Round

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The duo started asking questions and volunteering and eventually founded their business in 2013. It uses a one-for-one model: One pair of socks is donated for each one purchased. “It State Bags Scot Tatelman grew up camping. There was a curiosity to it,” Goldberg says. it’s a very simple and digestible story,” he says.

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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

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I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. Even though she experienced success at her job and was promoted to service manager, she wasn’t interested in moving up the corporate ladder—since she would then no longer work with “real car owners.”

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Does Money Really Make People Happier?

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The purchase of those luxury goods or experiences does provide a short-term burst of pleasure, but it quickly fades,” Geller says. Giving up happiness to purchase pleasure is a bad deal. It is almost always a good trade to give up some pleasure to buy additional happiness. Photo by @Annu1tochka /Twenty20.

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Top 10 Most Innovative Companies to Watch in 2024

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They are large and small companies that have us fired up about the cool ways they are innovating and leveraging technology. Flipboard Photo courtesy of Flipboard Who they are: From health care to fashion, getting news you care about without looking up dozens of individual media sources can be daunting. Fast forward to now, and No.

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Insight confirms partnership with Material Matters for sustainable design event

Workplace Insight

The fair showcases global as well as up and coming firms with a particular focus on innovation and materials. Following the success of the Material Matters podcast with hundreds of thousands of listeners, the inaugural Material Matters event launched in 2022 to critical plaudits and attracted over 4,000 visitors.

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Gartner: Anytime-Anywhere-Computing Driving Computer Market

Small Business Labs

Gartner released their 2013 and 2014 computing device shipment forecast and it will come as no surprise to readers that mobility is driving computing device purchases. in 2013 while tablet (up 67%) and mobile phone shipments (up 4.3%) are increasing. The same trends hold true for 2014.

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The Strong Job Market's Impact on Independent Work

Small Business Labs

employment has grown consistently since 2013.   Key quote from the article: while average hourly earnings are growing at an annual rate of 2.7%, the consumer price index for the 12 months that ended June 30 was up 2.9%. That means the purchasing power of Americans went down during that period.

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