Social entrepreneurs are finding ways to raise capital without sacrificing their mission
Since 2001, Lee Zimmerman's Evergreen Lodge has helped almost 60 low-income young adults get their lives on track, while consistently paying 9 percent back to investors backing his business. Pura Vida Coffee, of which John Sage was a co-founder in 1997, has generated US$2.7 million in cash and resources for health and education programs for children and their families.

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Storing a digital master record of a movie costs about U$12,514 a year, versus US$1,059 for a conventional film master, a recent report said
Time was, a movie studio could pack up a picture and all of its assorted bloopers, alternate takes and other odds and ends as soon as the production staff was done with them, and ship them off to the salt mine. Literally.

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