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Calling Portland’s Sustainable Small Businesses!

May 4, 2010 • Categories: Blog • by

ustainability. The word brings to mind such different images depending on who you ask. We know it’s important. We strive to attain, live and share its practices. But really…what does it look like and how does it change the way we do business?

That’s exactly the answer we’re hoping to provide by asking real businesses (small ones) in the Portland Metro area to contribute their sustainability practices in a new crowd-sourced book called “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business From America’s Hotbed of Sustainability”.

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Disturbed: 5 Mind-Bending Take-Aways from ReVisioning Value 2010

April 27, 2010 • Categories: Blog • by

At yesterday’s ReVisioning Value 2010 Conference, Amy Pearl of Springboard Innovation challenged us as participants to be disturbed and compelled to action by the ideas to which we were exposed. At the time, I thought, “What is she talking about? This is fantastic stuff, I’m totally pumped and motivated by all these ideas! What’s there to be disturbed about?” Yeah…that “disturbed” part sunk in on the way home.

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Driving Community Impact with 4P’s: Christmas for Kids and Majestic Eagle Agency

April 7, 2010 • Categories: Blog • by

Here’s the thing that impressed me about Bill: the sheer degree of understatement with which he describes the Christmas for Kids program and his personal role in making it happen…it’s bewildering. My expectations about the program were blown away as Bill nonchalantly listed off a few of their community partners. Columbia Sportswear. Fred Meyer. The Standard. Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office. Tigard Police Department. Local School Districts. United Healthcare. Kaiser Permanente.

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NedWater’s Take on Non-Profit Revenues: “Just Add Water”

NedWater’s Take on Non-Profit Revenues: “Just Add Water”

March 22, 2010 • Categories: Blog • by

What if you could literally change the fate of hundreds of non-profit organizations just by making a small change in your office break room? Nope…not by installing compact fluorescent light bulbs or implementing a recycling program, but by giving “water cooler talk” an entirely different meaning. That’s exactly what Portland, OR-based NedWater has set out to do, one water cooler at a time.

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7 Gifts to Make Your Heart Proud this Valentine’s Day

February 3, 2010 • Categories: Blog • by

7 ways to raise the bar for Valentine’s Day and make this year’s this holiday an opportunity to give from the heart. PLUS a chance to win a $25 charity gift card from TisBest.org to give to your Valentine!

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