Social Entrepreneurship

In this practical guide to successful grantseeking, Alan Silver draws on 30 years of experience to help listeners formulate strategies for winning grants for individuals, nonprofits, and agencies. Concisely written and easy to follow, How to Win Grants demonstrates a three-stage grant development model distilled into 101 actionable strategies, arranged in order of execution and supplemented by helpful checklists

You have a job and an idea for a business. What do you do then? Crisp, listener-friendly and practical, Entrepreneur 5 P.M. To 9 A.M. tells you how you can become an entrepreneur even if you have a full-time job and are risk-averse. This is a fast and super-useful listen from which you will come away with a clear and solid road map for converting your idea into a viable enterprise and taking your venture from zero to launch.

An infectious and utterly charming fictionalization of the iconic Helen Gurley Brown’s early years at the helm of Cosmopolitan, narrated by Amy Ryan! “Single Girls is an irresistibly fun, sparkling novel that you'll want to binge in one night! John Searles crafts a brilliant portrait of the...

Non-profits are big business. As the sector expands to embrace new issues, there is increased pressure for accountability, relevancy, and efficiency. Practitioners are expected to be experts in a variety of fields. In Five Good Ideas, 40 professionals from successful nonprofits large and small offer information, strategies for action, and management solutions that are easy to implement and will improve how organizations function.

Crush It! 2.0: The Audiobook: Read by Gary Vaynerchuk, this audiobook version contains additional material not found in the bestselling hardcover edition. Do you have a hobby you wish you could indulge in all day? An obsession that keeps you up at night? Now is the perfect time to take that...

Are you looking for the competitive edge to take your personal brand to new heights and be in control of your career?The secrets to drive massive amounts of traffic to your content without paying for it and dominate your competitors?... That’s what this audiobook is about. To get consumers to walk across the bridge to your content. The opportunity to provide value and establish yourself as an authority figure. The chance to leave a legacy behind by turning your brand viral so you can automatically turn your followers into customers.

Questo testo è nato per riempire un vuoto: quasi tutta la letteratura italiana sulle startup, oggi, è un fritto misto retorico che sembra avere come unico scopo quello di spingere giovani e meno giovani a darsi in pasto al mercato senza le giuste precauzioni. I nuovi startupper sono convinti di cadere sul morbido dell'idea che è venuta loro mentre erano al pub con gli amici, salvo poi schiantarsi al primo semestre tra Iva e contributi. E poi ci sono quelli che sanno di doverci mettere tutto l'impegno del mondo, ma a cui nessuno, finora, ha detto che potrebbe non bastare.

It’s an age-old question: Why do some great ideas or inventions take off and soar while others never get off the ground? Today, with more and more young entrepreneurs seeking to incorporate social justice, economic equity, climate concerns, and communal health into their endeavors, the need for practical-yet-think-big answers is great. Thibault Manekin has a few.

Building on the success of their previous title, The Oz Principle, Connors and Smith explore the direct link between a company's culture and the results it produces. Journey to the Emerald City details a clear road map for accelerating the move to a culture of accountability in which people focus on achieving the results critical to a company's future.

It has long been recognized that most standard of living increases are associated with advances in technology, not the accumulation of capital. Yet it has also become clear that what truly separates developed from less developed countries is not just a gap in resources or output but a gap in knowledge. In fact the pace at which developing countries grow is largely determined by the pace at which they close that gap. Therefore, how countries learn and become more productive is key to understanding how they grow and develop, especially over the long term.

In this compelling book, strategy guru Roger L. Martin and Skoll Foundation President and CEO Sally R. Osberg describe how social entrepreneurs target systems that exist in a stable but unjust equilibrium and transform them into entirely new, superior, and sustainable equilibria. All of these leaders - call them disrupters, visionaries, or changemakers - develop, build, and scale their solutions in ways that bring about the truly revolutionary change that makes the world a fairer and better place.

Reconnecting with such authors as Seth Godin from Guerrilla Marketing Handbook, the father of guerrilla marketing Jay Conrad Levinson and coauthor Jeannie Levinson present fans and new guerrillas with the first book to deliver The Best of Guerrilla Marketing - a combination of the latest secrets, strategies, tactics, and tools from more than 25 top-selling Guerrilla Marketing books. Learn how to reshape your approach to branding, advertising, social media, networking, and more - ultimately, making more money, while spending less. 

Wenn es um die Gestaltung der Zukunft geht, stehen sich Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit meist gegenüber. Doch die Kompromisse aus diesem Spannungsfeld bringen nur wenig Fortschritt. Zu wenig, um genau zu sein - denn unser Planet befindet sich in einem schlechten Zustand: Die Erderwärmung nimmt stetig zu, Ökosysteme befinden sich an kritischen Kipppunkten und die Menschheit schaut ohnmächtig zu. Zum Glück gibt es ein Konzept, welches neue Blickrichtungen und innovative Problemlösungen ermöglicht: Impact Investing.

Wie wir mit Impact Investing unsere Welt vor dem Untergang bewahren: Wenn es um die Gestaltung der Zukunft geht, stehen sich Nachhaltigkeit und Wirtschaftlichkeit meist gegenüber. Doch die Kompromisse aus diesem Spannungsfeld bringen nur wenig Fortschritt. Zu wenig, um genau zu sein - denn unser Planet befindet sich in einem schlechten Zustand: Die Erderwärmung nimmt stetig zu, Ökosysteme befinden sich an kritischen Kipppunkten und die Menschheit schaut ohnmächtig zu. Zum Glück gibt es ein Konzept, welches neue Blickrichtungen und innovative Problemlösungen ermöglicht: Impact Investing.

Recruiting and retaining a caring workforce to keep pace with the needs of an ageing society is one of the greatest challenges we face. At the same time, traditional methods of finding suitable care staff are delivering diminishing returns. We urgently need new ways of finding and keeping the compassionate and loyal care workers of tomorrow. The future of every care provider depends on solving this problem fast. Start now by listening to this audiobook. When you've read Saving Social Care, you will be able to: Know exactly who your perfect care worker candidate is.

Essential reading for any executive, Into the Metaverse, will reshape how you think about the internet and its place for those who want to lead successful businesses, today and into the future. If the internet was first used to connect us to information, and then developed into a social media forum to connect people, then Web3, which connects people, places and things, will help enable the successor state to today’s mobile internet - the Metaverse. It will bring together and merge our physical and digital lives and Metaverse will shake things up even more.

More women are running major companies than ever before. While still far too few in number, these female heads of industry are the forerunners of a radical shift in power now underway. During the past few years, women's groups have been coalescing in every major American city. Formidable ladies across professions are convening at unprecedented rates, forming salons, dinner groups, and networking circles, and collaborating to achieve clout and success. A new girls' network is alive and set to hyperdrive.

Who volunteers? Why? What are you willing to do? This title presents the hilarious, heartwarming adventures of a volunteering cynic. Do the feel-good rewards commensurate with the time and effort involved? When Seb Hunter accidentally picks up the phone to a charity Fundraiser one day, he faces a moment of reckoning. It isn't so much that he lacks a social conscience; but he can no longer assuage it by buying the odd copy of the Big Issue and eating Fairtrade chocolate.

Facebook's founding is legend: In a Harvard dorm, wunderkind Mark Zuckerberg invented a new way to connect with friends...and the rest is history. But for the people who actually molded this great idea into a game-changing $300 billion company, the experience was far more tumultuous and uncertain than we might expect. Mike Hoefflinger was one of those Facebook insiders.

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