Archive for the 'Making A Difference' Category

Jobberz.com is still plugging away in its chosen niche of helping folks find part time income. Here’s the webmaster’s story… The attraction of additional side job work to supplement regular income has become a valuable additional income stream as tightening budgets are compounded by increasing prices related to rising gas costs.Since launching earlier this year, [...]

Micro Credit New Hampshire helps the smallest of small businesses get on their feet. MicroCredit-NH is a program and registered trademark of the New Hampshire Community Loan Fund, a New Hampshire non-profit corporation. First started by the Loan Fund in 1996, MicroCredit-NH provides self-employed and small business entrepreneurs with access to: Business training Loans up [...]

Remember when you were a kid, you’d try to make extra money by having a lemonade stand? Inc.com is celebrating young entrepreneurs and their lemonade stands with The Best Lemonade Stand In America Contest . The winner can receive a $1,000 Savings Bond. So what are you waiting for… encourage a young entrepreneur to enter!

I spent quite a bit of time tracking this information down yesterday on this opportunity where you can have your office at home but you have to go out and meet people… and my source was a bit “closed mouth”. Still, I think there’s enough here to show you where to look for this opportunity [...]

Kiva is a portal that let’s individuals, groups, churches, schools, etc. participate in microlending. Elizabeth Omala pictured here was the recipients of such a loan and her “blog” link(yes, each project has it’s own page) Microlending involves helping the working poor in a Third World nation get enough capital – say $500 to build and [...]

Do you need a mature virtual intern to help your small business or non profit organization? Do you have tasks that would amount to valuable experience for an intern but are something that just keeps getting pushed off your “to do” list? Here’s help, for free, courtesy Ursiline College: I am a graduate student, working [...]

“Retirees” are finding themselves bored out of their minds and seeking new ventures or, in this case, adventures. The Purpose Prize is a new award that recognizes older Americans whose innovative projects make a difference in others’ lives. Robert Chambers is one of the 15 prize finalists. He’s a 61-year-old former car salesman in Lebanon, [...]

If you’d like your kids to have a head start as an inventor or entprepreneur… or just in life, here’s a summer activity that may just be the thing you’re looking for: a camp that uses an invention motif to help younger children improve their overall literacy and “numeracy” (the new buzz word for math [...]

Rich Mullins describes the backbone of America… our small business owners in comparison to, say, the Big Wigs of the Fortune 100. It pays to ponder the differences between the two creatures… governments cater to the latter. That’s why the government calls a “small business” has 500 employees or less: other businesses aren’t even on [...]

Could you make a living helping people with lousy credit get homes? Mark Hopkinson did. He got tired of cruching numbers as a bank analyst and wanted to go into real estate. He chose the niche of helping people with bad credit because his mother in law had lost a home to a mortgage foreclosure. He looks for [...]