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“Extreme poverty isn’t just an African issue or an Asian issue or a South American issue. It is a global issue. Before flying overseas to help relieve poverty abroad, consider the poverty in your own backyard. Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources. People need opportunities, connections, and education to learn more about life’s possibilities, not handouts, performative sympathy, and empty promises.”

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Book:Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
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“Working closely with recipients and understanding the needs of others requires a level of trust, credibility, and closeness that community leaders are best positioned to develop. Community leaders can serve as mentors, communicators, and friends who represent the values and priorities most important to the populations they support. At this level of giving, customizing aid to the specific needs of individuals becomes a natural byproduct of the types of relationships formed.”

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Book:Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
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“Extreme poverty isn’t just an African issue or an Asian issue or a South American issue. It is a global issue. Before flying overseas to help relieve poverty abroad, consider the poverty in your own backyard. Every country on every continent has people impacted by poverty—whether it is relative or absolute. Bringing extreme poverty down to zero will take more trial and error, more methods, more innovation, and more communication. Most importantly, it will take more trust—the trust that people are aware of their problems and are creative enough to solve them when given the right resources.”

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Book:Uplift and Empower: A Guide To Understanding Extreme Poverty and Poverty Alleviation
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“Be transparent. Let's build a community that allows hard questions and honest conversations so we can stir up transformation in one another.”

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Author:Germany Kent
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“Helping strategies, if indeed they are to be ultimately helpful, demand careful examination of long-term implications. There is no guarantee that unexamined charity will have a redemptive outcome simply because it ‘seems right’ or feels good to the giver.”

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Book:Charity Detox: What Charity Would Look Like If We Cared About Results
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“One of the newest figures to emerge on the world stage in recent years is the social entrepreneur. This is usually someone who burns with desire to make a positive social impact on the world, but believes that the best way of doing it is, as the saying goes, not by giving poor people a fish and feeding them for a day, but by teaching them to fish, in hopes of feeding them for a lifetime. I have come to know several social entrepreneurs in recent years, and most combine a business school brain with a social worker's heart. The triple convergence and the flattening of the world have been a godsend for them. Those who get it and are adapting to it have begun launching some very innovative projects.”

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Book:The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
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“There’s only one way America’s neighborhoods will begin to integrate: people have to want it more than vested public and corporate interests are opposed to it. And more people should want it. Mixed-race, mixed-income housing is a product we need to market. It’s the only real solution to segregated schools, for one.”

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Book:Some of My Best Friends Are Black: The Strange Story of Integration in America
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“There is immense power when a group of people with similar interests gets together to work toward the same goals.”

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Book:Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability
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“People are significant resource of the world that deserve to live in a safe and healthy environment. Thereby corporates need to maneuver conservative and strategic sustainable development principles to meet the demands of business in the present without compromising the needs of future civilization.”

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Author:Henrietta Newton Martin - Legal Counsel & Author
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“You have three types of followers: buyers, advocates, and elevators. Buyers buy your products or services and contribute to profits. Advocates give you free publicity and potential opportunities by referring you and sharing your posts. Elevators swell your posts through likes, comments, and engagements. This is what I like to refer to as the Relationship Status of B.A.E. Each one is essential to your brand, and you need all three to grow.”

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Book:Strategize Up: The Simplified Blueprint To Scaling Your Business
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“There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.”

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Author:Marshall McLuhan
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