The Cutting Edge: Next on Deck
Wake up people! Opportunity is at hand; can you see it? I firmly believe there lies potential for growth and prosperity amid these economically troubling times. After attending several entrepreneurs...
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A Walk on the Tech Side
As a probation officer, Tony Jordan intimately understood the struggles of troubled youth and the shortcomings of the criminal justice system meant to rehabilitate them. So in 2004 with the help of his wife, DaVena, he launched All Walks of Life Inc. (AWOL; www.awolinc.org), a Savannah, Georgia-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit to create intensive after-school and summer programs serving kids who are at risk of or have tangled with the law.
The Young & The Restless
andrew simon wishes he had been one of those lucky investors who bought Google at $100 back when the company first offered shares to the public in August 2004. The 23-year-old teller at Chase Bank in San Francisco watched with envy as the search engine’s share price rose to a peak of $715 by December 2007. Now, Simon is getting his chance to buy one of his favorite stocks on sale. Last October, after the Dow Jones dipped and the S&P sagged, he purchased a small stake in Google (GOOG) at $356 per share—almost half of what it traded for a year earlier. At the same time, Simon loaded up on Intel (INTC), buying 30 shares at $14. When the price dropped to $13 in December, he bought 70 more shares. “It was like shopping on Black Friday, but the prices were even better,†he says.
A Passion for Giving
Even as companies are restructuring their operations to better manage products and services, they are still committed to charitable giving, but with a slight spin. In fact, the Council on Foundations (www.cof.org), a membership association of more than 2,100 grant making corporations and foundations, defines the “new philanthropy†as much more than a tax deductible check, but a strategic business imperative.
The Big Payback
During a lesson on solar panel installation given as part of an International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers course in 1999, Erik Holston became captivated by the potential of solar energy.
