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Now there is a guide to get philanthropists creative juices flowing, how well respected entrepreneurs and business owners (like Bill Gates) are looking for newer ways to distribute their funds.
One of them is trying to change real world problems (IE flint crisis, feeding the homeless) instead of just doing something to make themselves sleep at night.
And at the same time for entrepreneurs that want to do the same thing they don't necessarily have a guide to do things in the same manner.
The article used a metaphor of pulling a checkbook at a business dinner as more of an old way to appreciate and help others out.
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Childcare Charitable Group Named Top Social Enterprise
Employers For Childcare Charitable Group (EFCG), a Lisburn-based charity, has been crowned top Social Enterprise at the Ulster Final of 2014’s Ulster Bank Business Achievers Awards. EFCG seeks to “make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work.”