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Giving Back While Looking Gorgeous: How One Designer is Revolutionizing the Way We Buy and Wear Jewelry

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 11.14.2009 | Style

Read More: Megan Fox, Charity Organizations, Small Business, Charity, Kelly Ripa, Donating to Charity, Eva Mendes, Women in Business, Jewelry, Joan Hornig Jewelry, Sarah Jessica Parker, Philanthropy, Oprah Winfrey, Philanthropists, Wall Street, Designers, Donations, Jewelry Trends, Bergdorf-Goodman, Style News
Marissa Bronfman

I had the opportunity to talk with this philanthropic jewelry designer about what inspired her to start Joan Hornig Jewelry and the lessons she learned along the way.

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TOMS Shoes: Why Doing Good Makes Good Business Sense

Melissa Biggs Bradley | Posted 08.01.2009 | Business

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Melissa Biggs Bradley

Blake Mycoskie won by losing. He lost the $1 million prize on the second season of the Amazing Race by four minutes, and yet if had won, he may not have founded his hugely successful and philanthropic TOMS Shoe company.

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Billionaires Hold Secret Meeting

ABC News | Posted 06.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Oprah Winfrey, Philanthropists, George Soros, Michael Bloomberg, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Billionaire Secret Meeting, Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, Business News

Under a cloak of secrecy, some of the world's wealthiest people gathered in an unprecedented meeting early this month in New York City possibly to coo...

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How Melinda and Bill Gates Taught Me that Great Philanthropy is Not Just About Money

Lisa Endlich | Posted 06.13.2009 | Living

Read More: Philanthropy, Philanthropists, Goldman Sachs, Afghanistan, Arzu, Bill Gates, Giving, Alderman, Living News
Lisa Endlich

Great philanthropists know that failure is almost certainly one of the first few steps. In good economic times and in bad, with small effort or large: get on with it, get over it and just start.

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Philanthropy's New Ice Age: Will Social Innovation Survive the Freeze?

Jumpstart | Posted 01.05.2009 | Living

Read More: Jumpstart, Charity Organizations, Philanthropy, Philanthropy Funding, Charity, Charitable Funds, Strategic Philanthropy, Economy, Social Innovation, Jewish Social Entrepreneurship, Nonprofits, Innovation, Joshua Avedon, Shawn Landres, Jewish Innovation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Philanthropists, Lee Meyerhoff Hendler, Social Entrepreneurship, Jewish, Nonprofit Sector, Hazon, Nigel Savage, Living News
Jumpstart

After a decade of philanthropic investment that has produced a flowering of innovation and social entrepreneurship not seen since the late 19th century, all signs point to a flash freeze.

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Turner "Almost Done" Buying Up Ranchland

Omaha World Herald | PAUL HAMMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

Read More: Ted's Nebraska Grill, Billionaires, Cnn, Turner Ranchland, Mouth of the South, Philanthropists, Nebraska, Ted Turner, Business News

The "Mouth of the South" might be mellowing, at least in terms of his appetite for ranchland in Nebraska. CNN founder Ted Turner, the largest private...

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