Soon, entrepreneurs were building on this foundation in a thousand ways.
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Private citizens, innovative businesses, and philanthropic organizations dedicated to the education and success of entrepreneurs (like the Kauffman Foundation), are all finding innovative ways to work on moving the job-creation needle.
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In 1999 the Canadian billionaire launched the Skoll Foundation, which funds entrepreneurs who run businesses that address social change.
My team at Stanford and Lesa Mitchell of Kauffman Foundation surveyed 500 women entrepreneurs to learn what motivates them and why they took the leap into entrepreneurship.
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The Global Good Challenge project is the brainchild of the Global Entrepreneurs Council, a group of successful under-40 entrepreneurs assembled to refresh the UN Foundation's image and find new ways to promote its programs by tapping into the social media set.
Participants will include hundreds of top Fortune 500 Corporate Executives, Venture Capitalists, Government Leaders, Emerging Market Investors, Foundation Heads and Social Entrepreneurs eager to discuss social challenges, analyze innovative approaches and build lasting partnerships that enable them and their organizations to affect positive social change.
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Since 2006, Staples Foundation and Ashoka have supported young entrepreneurs throughout the world as they work to create positive change.
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The final solution came when, in 2008, IPHAN resumed work under the supervision of architect Cristina Lodi and succeeded, in an unprecedented way, orchestrating a set of agents that were decisive for the result: besides IPHAN itself, ICMBio, the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro, the Rio de Janeiro City Hall, the private sector, led by the Association of Entrepreneurs Friends of UNESCO, and Roberto Marinho Foundation.
When I sold my own company earlier this year the first thing I did was to establish a charity called the IPOP Foundation, which is a charity focused on helping entrepreneurs through education and mentoring and access to capital.
Commissioned by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Smit put together two reports for hospitals and entrepreneurs defining opportunities and challenges in care transition, to be released partly on December 10.
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Time off: Through his Avina foundation, Schmidheiny, 50, funds and advises South American entrepreneurs on sustainable development.
But what government can do is lay the foundation for small businesses to expand and to thrive, for entrepreneurs to open up shop and test out new products, for workers to get the training that they need, and for families to achieve some measure of economic security.
In that spirit, I wish to extend my deepest thanks to the Deshpande Foundation, which helped arrange for our town hall, and to the entrepreneurs and ecosystem partners who participated.
That is slowly changing, thanks in part to two organizations, the Angel Capital Association in Vienna, Virginia, which was founded in 2004, and its affiliate, the Angel Capital Education Foundation, which bring together angel groups to share best practices and provide basic information to entrepreneurs.
The 300 Delegates are more diversified and evenly balanced among foundation trustees and executives, social investors, innovative nonprofit leaders, policy thought leaders and social entrepreneurs.
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We need to lay a new and stronger foundation on which businesses can thrive and create jobs and rising incomes, on which innovators and entrepreneurs can lead the world in generating new technologies and products and services.
These students receive not only internships but a speaker series, networking events and mentorship from entrepreneurs, investors, and executives in Silicon Valley, thanks to program partners like Andresseen Horowitz and the Kauffman Foundation.
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