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Up until last year, I was President & COO of the apparel company, American MoJo, a for-profit social enterprise (FPSE) based in Lowell, Massachusetts....
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Follow @MekaeliaD I remember watching “Kids Say The Darnest Things” with my mother and enjoying fits of laughter as young children had ...
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Follow @SarahCHaight Can you live on the minimum wage? The New York Times recently posed this question on its website, noting that more than 4.8 milli...
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Is it possible to encapsulate a hope, a feeling, a story in a mere six words? Inspired by Six-Word Memoirs from SMITH Magazine, the Early C...
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Follow @SarahCHaight Above, National Crittenton Foundation President Jeannette Pai-Espinosa at a 2013 conference on Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE...