Many large corporations have had grassroots shareholder-inspired initiatives that resulted in a mix of socially conscious mission-based ventures.
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Because of the mission-based gameplay, you have to wait every time a new mission is accepted, which can be quite often.
The Community Advantage program is open to mission-based lenders such as Community Development Financial Institutions, Certified Development Companies and nonprofit microlenders, which tend to target lower-income communities.
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Not many of these mission-based adventures have been implemented just yet, but Haemimont Multimedia should consider creating many of these to help distinguish Tzar from its predecessors.
While countless social entrepreneurs are establishing and managing mission-based organizations around the globe, droves of social INTRApreneurs are staying put in their companies and delivering business results that score high on financial, social and environmental metrics.
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In recent memory, angels (much like venture capitalists) have been attracted to hot start-ups in fields such as technology or life sciences, although increasingly angels are branching out into other sectors and in niche, mission-based areas.
There is even a publicly traded company, Kingdom Ventures (otc: KDMV - news - people ), whose sole mission is to help faith-based organizations get bigger.
Ryan Arter, the president of Kansas-based Mission:Repair, has seen one iPad so far.
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The integration has been in place since September and she says she feels her mission to develop geo-based tools has been reinvigorated.
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Employees want freedom from command and control bosses and task-based jobs and freedom to contribute their character and creativity and collaborative spirit in pursuit of a values-based mission worthy of their dedication.
The CRS-2 supply mission, operated by Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX, lifted off successfully on a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 10:10 AM Eastern time.
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The Flash-based games in "Re-Mission 2" mimic what the patients are going through in their therapy, but in a way that gamifies the treatment and involves the patient in "destroying" their cancer.
AgilOne is a cloud-based analytics company whose mission is to help other companies get more value out of their customers and their marketing spend through the use of machine learning algorithms.
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Jonathon Narvey, a founding member of the Vancouver-based Canada-Afghanistan Solidarity Committee, said this is precisely when the Canadian mission needs public support.
Boston-based Stomp Games is on a mission to amend your perceptions of what a Facebook game should be.
Interestingly, two of the most vocal of critics of missile defense -- MIT's Professor Theodore Postol and IBM's Richard Garwin -- have been recently sighted recommending that AEGIS ships be adapted for sea-based missile defenses precisely to address this mission.
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While bigger schools such as Georgia Tech, Purdue and Carnegie Mellon are known for their cybersecurity programs, experts say Brooklyn-based NYU-Poly is now considered among the best schools for training students with hands on, mission-critical cybersecurity skills.
Tellem is spearheading a new L.A.-based studio called Xbox Entertainment Studios, where the mission is to create true interactive content for Xbox and other devices that will change the way entertainment content is experienced and delivered.
If that mission is successful, then we might start seeing the backbone of a satellite-based, secure, quantum Internet.
It all combines at Toledo, Ohio-based SSOE Group to elevate talent management to the role of mission critical discipline.
His mission: to create the world's first zero-emission, hydrogen-based economy--and to pull it off through no-nonsense business principles, not tree-hugging wishful thinking.
Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Va.
Sights like that motivated Haugen to start a slavery-fighting nonprofit seven years ago called International Justice Mission (IJM), based in Arlington, Virginia.
Javier Manzano, a Mexican photojournalist based in Kabul, recently accompanied a joint four-day mission of US and Afghan army platoons on the Afghan-Pakistani border.
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He had it easy: His mission was always pretty clear: Save the earth from a space-station-based lunatic bent on replacing humanity with supermodels, and so on.
For the first part of the mission, the satellite will be controlled by a new high-speed Linux-based cubesat computer developed at SSC, which is part of the University of Surrey.
In addition to the success of Mission: Impossible, we made progress toward introducing best-in-class laser based projection technology, and grew our commercial network by 33%, installing a record 170 IMAX theatre systems.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy.
At Tinian Island, in the Pacific, where mission 13 was based, Mr Ferebee and the rest of the crew trained and re-trained.
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