Archive for the 'Making A Difference' Category

Here’s a great article… Will the World’s Cheapest Solar Lantern Pull in Profits While Igniting Economic Development?
These entrepreneurs at D.Light have produced a solar lantern that sells for about $10, the Kiran.
Their theory is that if they can develop a needed product at a low enough cost (while still making a profit themselves), they can [...]

The Kauffman Foundation is spearheading the drive the Build A Stronger America movement. In all the talk about our nation’s “recovery” the focus is on what the “Government” is doing when, really, the government doesn’t create jobs… entrepreneurs do.
So who’s talking about the entrepreneurial recovery? This is the first resource I’ve heard, so I [...]

While making a somewhat vain attempt at “work life balance”, I came across this website when it was promoted during a football game: Shine A Light .
You can go there to vote for 3 finalist small businesses that can win up to $100,000 in “grant and marketing support”.
In addition to their “core” business for making [...]

The Kauffman foundation helps encourage today’s generation of young entrepreneurs. Through activities like EntrepreneurshipWeek USA, the foundation helped focus the nations attention on entrepreneurship among folks soon to enter the “labor force” with the challenge to dream big – and then work to tackle that dream. The goal behind the foundation’s attention on young entrepreneurship [...]

These Milwaukee neighborhoods are considering printing their own local currency.
Believe it or not, this isn’t illegal as long as state and federal tax obligations are paid using Federal Reserve Notes, i.e. US Dollars. (Is anyone wondering if “Federal Reserve” is the new oxymoron of the decade by the way? Since it’s obvious there has never [...]

Here’s a great article written by Dr. Laura Walker of Dakota Cabin Quilts from Hettinger ND. I thought I’d pass it along:
“Friday morning at 9 am sharp, I drove down Hettinger’s Main Street, and pulled up to park in front of Dakota Cabin Quilts. I paused to enjoy the beautiful autumn morning and noticed other [...]

Following the Biblical injunction of Leviticus 19:9-10, a Colorado family farm offered people free food.
They originally scheduled two days of “gleaning” – allowing free picking of vegetables left over after the commercial harvest of their potato, carrot, and leek crops.
They expected 5,000 or perhaps 10,000. 40,000 showed up!
Though a 600 acre farm isn’t you’re average [...]

Has Organic Food Lost it’s Marketing Magic? According to this report, yes.
But take note that they are talking primarily about high overhead super market venues.
Local farms that sell regionally and directly to customers have an advantage here.
1. They build relationships with their customers
2. They are getting the retail and middleman’s mark up
3. They are not [...]

If you’re a Blogger, you might like this post at Web Worker Daily: Countdown to Blog Action Day
We wanted to take a moment to let you know that Web Worker Daily will be participating in the second annual Blog Action Day, which will take place this Wednesday, October 15th.
Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit [...]

You may recall that I get to go to local prisons and jails on a fairly regular basis to help prisoners about to try to make it on the “outside”. When you consider that some of them have been in so long they’ve never used a cell phone or ATM card, that can be a [...]