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• Making Money Out Of Other People’ Posted By: Jonas Salk

  
  Fisher Funding — Authority: 159
  If you want to go into the business of landscaping, Minnesota is the right place to do it. Known also for their excellent lawn care services, Minnesota landscaping companies have created a reputation for coming up with some of the most beautiful and unique landscapes in the entire country. Hence, putting up a ...
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• News Round-Up: Jacqueline Novogratz, Ripple Effect, Unreasonable Justice, Literature Review, New Recruits, Lifespring

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Read Autumn 2009 Letter from Jacqueline :  A quarterly update letter from Jacqueline recaps recent news and Acumen Fund’s annual Investor Gathering, which took place in New York on November 17, 2009. Amongst other news, there is early proof that Patient Capital is working, a new product called Acumen Capital ...
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• Fellows Departure

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  I’m writing this post on the 16-hr plane ride from New York to Mumbai (via Qatar), thinking about the hectic but exciting past ten days. Near the end of our time in New York we learned how to shoot and edit videos. Initially, I thought that this video training - with a tough coach teaching us the surprisingly ...
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• Performance Measurement and Social Enterprise

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Katie Hill, India Portfolio Manager at Acumen Fund, wrote the following post for Beyond Profit , as part of their series on track leaders in advance of  the Khemka Forum on Social Entrepreneurship , to be held in Hyderabad, India on December 8-9, 2009. I recently visited rural Uttar Pradesh and met with a ...
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• Mirage in the Desert

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 566
  by John Browne – Senior Market Strategist, Euro Pacific Capital In recent days, world attention has focused on the potential debt default of Dubai World, the main government-owned corporation in the emirate of Dubai. The transformation of the city-state from a Persian Gulf backwater into the glittering financial ...
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• Changing Your Work System: Some Valuable Tips

  
  Gypsy Camp Blog — Authority: 154
  A number of work systems may look lucrative in theory but are not much productive in actual. It is just the same as you buy an expensive item but eventually find out that it does not works as promised. Similarly any failure in our work system is a problem, consecutively you have to repeat the entire task or guess the ...
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• Acumen Fund Announces Ripple Effect East Africa Pilot Projects

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Acumen Fund is pleased to announce that it has selected four Kenyan organizations to conduct pilot programs addressing issues of safe water transportation and storage. The pilots will enable local organizations to test new ideas for delivery and storage of safe water for consumers who lack access. These ...
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• Share, share, share

  
  Sasha Dichter's Blog — Authority: 117
  Here it is, Acumen Fund in 90 seconds. You can make a HUGE difference by sharing this far and wide. Blog, tweet, digg, stumbleupon, call a co-worker over to your computer, send a carrier pigeon…do whatever works for you, but be a megaphone. Easy sharing options here .  And thank you for all that you do. ...
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• An Even Better Way : Give to Acumen Fund

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Need a gift for a loved one this December? Give your friends and family something extra special this year – a gift that will help build a business that serves the poor; a business that offers people the ability to improve their own lives, the lives of their families and their community. Give to Acumen Fund. ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Martin Frankel

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 118
  Martin Frankel is a Jewish scumbag who is currently serving 16 years in prison for a wide variety of economic crimes against humanity including insurance fraud, racketeering, and money laundering.  He ran one of the largest insurance fraud and embezzlement schemes in all of American history. The amount of money he ...
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• Vote For Acumen Fund in Chase Community Giving Initiative

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Vote for Acumen Fund in Chase Community Giving’s initiative on Facebook: Chase is giving away $5 million to various charities — and asking Facebook users to pick which ones. So go HERE and vote for Acumen Fund! First round voting is open until December 11. Vote now!
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• Show Thanks For Your Teachers, Mentors & Role Models

  
  ThrillingHeroics.com — Authority: 112
  Feature photo by chanchan222 For readers from the States, I wish you a happy Thanksgiving! A few months ago, I was thinking about all the individuals who have helped shape the course of my life and the person I am today. I’ve been extremely fortunate to have the guidance of some brilliant minds and to surround ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Jewish Organ Traffickers

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 118
  In the last few months, a few dozen Jewish criminals (including Rabbis) have been arrested for illegal organ trafficking. Learn about these Jewish scumbags by searching the internet about “Jewish organ trafficking” and so forth; here are a few links to get you started: +” New Jewish organ theft gang busted “ ...
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• News Round-Up: Acumen in NYT Book Review, Ripple Effect in SSIR, UHEAL and PVRI in news, GAIN with Dr. Nair, D.light Fellows

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Acumen Fund in NY Times Sunday Book Review: As part of a recent essay discussing current approaches to global poverty alleviation, Nicholas Kristof discusses the work of Acumen Fund and CEO Jacqueline Novogratz’s The Blue Sweater . Design Thinking and Social Innovation: Ripple Effect: The Winter 2010 issue of ...
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• Thanksgiving drama on steroids: Adding a family business to the mix

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 142
  I think its safe to say that for the majority of people, Thanksgiving is not about goodness and gratitude, but rather, family drama. Until now, I have been pretty much on the outside of this American tradition: The tradition of building up Thanksgiving to be a great family moment and then the family not living up to ...
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• The Seduction of Internet Marketing Newbies

  
  JonClaytonBizBlog — Authority: 135
  If you got behind the wheel of a car without knowing how to drive, chances are, you’d crash. Yet, every single day on the Internet, thousands of newbies are performing the equivalent of the aforementioned driving analogy, by putting up a website without having the slightest idea how to promote it. And guess what ...
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• Like It or Not – Looks Count

  
  The Pipeline — Authority: 124
  I was in a reception area today, being an old runner I needed to have a bone scan, this required me sit in the waiting room for a while between tests on my leg. I began to notice the person behind the desk (not sure if she was a qualified nurse or a receptionist), and how she was reacting to and treating the people ...
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• HEBREWNOMICS — Dina Wein Reis

  
  ZSIDOZAS - The Jewish Problem — Authority: 118
  Dina Wein Reis is a Jewish swindler accused of bilking hundreds of millions dollars out of some companies and corporations which she then ‘donated’ to various Jewish ‘charities.’ If interested, learn the details about this Jewish thief in the following article: “ The alleged grifter who duped corporate ...
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• Patient Capital: A Bridge over Troubled Waters

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  I recently had the opportunity to participate in the Clean Water Solutions for the Developing World Roundtable held last month at the University of California, Berkeley’s Haas School of Business. Hosted by the Sustainable Products and Solutions Program at Haas’ Center for Responsible Business and the GWC (Global ...
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• An Empathetic Evolution: The 2009 Acumen Fund Investor Gathering

  
  Acumen Fund Blog — Authority: 461
  Several days ago, Acumen Fund hosted its Investor Gathering, an annual event – part open house, part state of the union – that gives investors a comprehensive view of what Acumen Fund has been doing over the past year and the ways it aims to grow in the next.  With staff and investees coming in from Pakistan, ...
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