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Why Social Entrepreneurship Is Becoming A Top Career Choice

David C. Hodgson | Posted 06.02.2012 | Impact
Read More: City Year, Freelancers Union, Teach for America, Echoing Green, Social Entrepreneurship, Ucla, Hot Bread Kitchen, Ashoka, Bill Drayton, Impact News
David C. Hodgson

Social entrepreneurs are holistic thinkers who want to dissolve the walls that have traditionally separated government, business and the nonprofit sector. They believe an integrated approach -- which is core to social entrepreneurial methodology -- has the best chance of success.

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World's Longest Invoice Ever

The Huffington Post | Tara Kelly | Posted 04.27.2012 | Home
Read More: Freelancers Union, Video, Freelancer-Payment-Protection-Act, Freelance, Freelance Economy, Freelancers Unpaid Invoice, The World's Longest Invoice, Freelancers Unpaid, World's Longest Invoice, Payment Protection Act, Home News

Freelancers have long been the envy of cubicle-trapped office workers. From the flexible hours to escaping mundane office politics, there's a lot to l...

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Hearts on Fire: Lighting the Spark for Social Change

Stephenie Foster | Posted 04.01.2012 | Books
Read More: Amy Lehman, Susana De Anda, Bill Clinton, Sara Horowitz, Leila Janah, Jimmie Briggs, Vivian Nixon, Diahann Billings-Burford, Man Up, Medic Mobile, Hearts on Fire, Peter Cookson, Afghan Child Education and Care Organization, Andeisha Farid, Nyc-Service, Freelancers-Union, Jacob Lief, Center for New American Security, Nate Fick, Samasource, Maria Pacheco, Jill Iscol, College and Commuity Fellowship Program, Ubanta, Books News
Stephenie Foster

Does all of this work to create change, or support organizations and people that do this work, really make a dent in the problems we collectively face? Hearts on Fire helps to address this question.

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Why America's 42 Million Freelancers Need Help

DailyFinance | David Schepp | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Freelancers-Union, Unemployment, Unemployment Insurance, Labor Department, Freelancers, Health Insurance, Business News

When full-time jobs go away, so does the safety net that helps so many Americans survive dire economic times. The lack of a fail-safe for the nation's...

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Why Us? How the Commuter Tax Chips Away at the Self-Sufficient Self-Employed

Samantha Marshall | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Albany, Manhattan, Self-Employed, Bill Thompson, Mta, Metropolitan Commuter Transportation Mobility Tax, New York, Fare Hike, Small Business, Freelancers-Union, Freelancers, New York News
Samantha Marshall

What makes state legislators -- along with hapless mayoral candidate Bill Thompson -- think we're the perfect source of revenue to close the MTA budget gap?

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Union Maid: The Founder Of The Freelancer's Union

GOOD Magazine | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Freelancer's Union, The Giving Life, Healthy Living News
GOOD Magazine

Words By Daniel Brook Photos By Greg Miller Sara Horowitz's grandmother lived in the Amalgamated Dwellings, a development on Manhattan's Lower East S...

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