Eyes On The Enterprise
The Backdoor To The Clubhouse: Expanding Golf Opportunities To The Underprivileged
The First Tee is a national non-profit charitable organization that uses the game of golf to teach nine core values of life to young people. Their mission is positive youth development. Those nine core values are honesty, integrity, sportsmanship, respect, confidence, responsibility, perseverance, courtesy, and judgment. A game like golf, which requires successful players to embody these values is the perfect set up.
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Contributions To America Across Race And Ethnicity
Most have no doubt heard the difference between “efficient” and “effective.” The former relates to people who do things right, while the latter is people who do the right things right. Efficient people do not necessarily get results — at least not the results that move an enterprise forward. Effective people, in short, create something that didn’t exist by taking a concept and moving it from non-existence into reality.
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A Lack Of Work Challenges The Stereotypes Of Welfare
The stigma of welfare is a debilitating, empty experience where those in need of public assistance are left feeling like obtrusive, less than human, ill-equipped people. In a 2005 study, Eugenie Hildebrandt and Sheryl T. Kelber uncovered that 53 percent of women in work-based welfare programs felt sad and discouraged, 64 percent felt downhearted and blue, and over half of the subjects said they experienced depression while on welfare programs.
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Shades Of Poverty In America
Even before the current recession, poverty presented a huge problem in America. Families living in poverty are forced to carve out a hand-to-mouth existence for themselves and their children, often making choices between necessities like clothing and school supplies, and their basic needs such as food and heat. Although many government and nonprofit programs lend a helping hand in terms of food, housing, clothing boxes, subsidized healthcare, etc.
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Collaborative Consumption: Cost Effective And Community Building
In a global and technologically advanced world reeling from a hard-hitting recession that left in
its wake a high rate of home foreclosures, major budget deficits, and unemployment numbers
hovering around 10 percent, people are now forced to take a new approach in choosing how to spend their money. Gone are the days of “buy, buy, buy,” where consumers, in a never-ending drive to accumulate, end up literally buried in stuff.
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Cracking The Plexi Glass Ceiling: 2010 Fortune 500 CEOs Of Color
Diversity gives rise in the world of business as individuals of different color, race, religion, and gender burst through the barriers that once held sway over their careers and ambitions. Fortune 500 CEO’s of diversity have over the past two decades, increasingly gained ground in the business world. In 1995, according to the Editors of DiversityInc.com, there was not one single Fortune 500 CEO of color, and women CEOs were just as hard to find.
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How To Pay For College After The First Semester
Getting into the top choice on your list of colleges or universities is probably one of the hardest things to do, but what happens if when there is not enough money to pay for it. In the past, students counted on some financial support from their families to help offset college costs. Now, families are so cash strapped that they cannot possibly put aside money for college so they say, “We love you. We want you to go to college, but we can’t afford to pay tuition right now.
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Holiday Technology Guide For Any Techie
Long before the Halloween decorations came off the shelves and marked down to a deep discount, retailers began the ride on the Holiday bandwagon. Major stores like Target, Macy’s, and Bed, Bath, and Beyond decked their shelves and store windows in holiday regale.
Years ago, someone coined the sales pitch “Christmas in July” to catch shoppers in the buying mood while they were still wearing shorts and flip-flops but now it seems like any month gives us the opportunity to get a jump start on crossing off those must have gifts off your shopping list.
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Indian Casinos: Criticized For Leading To A Path Of Self-Determination?
As long as Indian casinos have existed, the debate on their revival or demise to Native American tribes is just as prevalent. The pros and cons of casinos on American Indian lands is a longstanding argument since the building of the first casino. On one hand, the argument is that casinos are a scourge on reservations, causing irreparable social damage to the community while harming the environment. On the other hand, the money generated by these casinos is boasted as a godsend to reservations where jobs are limited, and cash for social programs is just as sparse.
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Women In Business – Transcending The Color Barrier
While women of color have made radical strides professionally, economically, and politically over the last 50 years, recent data shows that both racial and sexual discrimination continues to remain a harsh reality on all fronts when compared to white women and men.
According to The Center for Women & Business Research, over the past two decades, minority women started companies at three times the rate of other women; however, their average revenue is less than 25 percent of businesses owned by white men.
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