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Giving Joy’s Micro Grants for Female Founders Are Making Macro Impacts

Success

Her social organization Propolis’s “No More Taboo” program worked with 143 youth on using storytelling to empower themselves to respectfully discuss taboo topics such as gender equality, reproductive rights and violence against women. It was just one stop on the 70-day, 12-city tour. Cotton says. How much impact can we get for each dollar?”

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The Bautista Project Aims to Prevent Homelessness Before It Happens

Success

The Bautista Project is one of five nonprofit organizations SUCCESS magazine is spotlighting during the week of Giving Tuesday. We tallied up the nominations and are pleased to highlight the hard work these organizations are doing behind the scenes to better the lives of others.

2018 279
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Help Your Supervisors Start 2018 Out Right

Clutter Coach

As we remove the plastic wrappings from our new calendars and start neatly recording upcoming events and plans, we’re inspired to make 2018 the best year ever. Supervisors and managers in your organization are having the same thoughts—they want to make 2018 the best year ever, for themselves and their people. Look Back! ?

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Nick Santonastasso: Staying Adaptive in a Handicap World

Success

In 1996, I was born with Hanhart syndrome, a rare condition that leaves babies with undeveloped limbs or organs. Of those 12 babies, eight died because their organs couldn’t support them. My organs were 100% healthy. In 2018, my mom wrote a book, Born to Break the Boundaries: How We Raised an Adaptive Child in a Handicap World.

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Assistants Must Excel at the Fundamentals

Office Dynamics

From Joan Burge’s new book, Joan’s Greatest Administrative Secrets Revealed (2018). For 28 years, I have been teaching assistants to pay attention to the fundamentals such as meeting planning, travel planning, calendar maintenance, organizational skills, follow-up systems, time management, and communications. This is not smart.

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Why Supporting Small Businesses This Holiday Season Is More Urgent Than Ever

Success

An e-commerce brand that ships instruments directly to your door, Orangewood Guitars was founded in 2018 by two brothers, Eddie and Sooj Park, based on their childhood love of the guitar after immigrating to the U.S. 225)—a slightly smaller sized guitar great for novice players looking for a new hobby and frequent travelers alike.

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Offering Remote Work Options Creates a Diverse, Equitable, and Inclusive Workplace Environment

Allwork

Regardless of mental health, disability, or minority status, 80% of all workers would leave their job to work for an organization that focused more on mental health (Westfall, C., In fact, the leading cause of death globally for all people under age 54 is road crashes (Association for Safe International Road Travel, 2022). .