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Charity: When Big Is Better
Small business is on a roll in America. In almost every way you can measure -- sales, employment, profitability -- the small-business sector is challengi... Read more
United Way
Recent Articles about United Way
When Bigger May Be Worse
In "Charity: When Bigger Is Better" (Insider, February), you stated that small businesses and their employees don't give as much as big businesses, but yo... Read more
The Good Deed Doers
Infoseek founder Steve Kirsch on philanthropy in the digital age. Read more
Another Look at Healthcare Marketing
Not long ago, I did a Public Radio commentary that predicted a new era o... Read more
Volunteering: The New Employee Perk
A look at some companies that are using volunteer-work programs to strengthen their corporate culture. Read more
Smart Gifts
How to set up a charitable-giving program and take advantage of IRS incentives. Read more
Giving Stock: A Tax Break For Business Owners
If you have ever written a check to the United Way, you know that charitable contributions reduce your taxes and thus "cost" less than they appear to. If ... Read more
Sweet Charity
With the help of federal tax laws, Warren Buffet and Richard Branson aren't the only entrepreneurs who can afford to donate to a good cause. Read more
Why Partnerships Break Up
If he'd observed these three principles, says the author, his own partnership might still be alive. Read more
The New Dog-Eat-Dog Nonprofit
The profile of a non-profit educational camp for at-risk kids and how it learned to compete for corporate funding. Read more
Volunteering Your Company
Company allows employees to do volunteer work on company time instead of making donations. Read more
Green Giving
Earth Share, a pool of non-profit environmental organizations, can be a payroll-deduction alternative. Read more
Probing a Charity's Financials
Discerning the financial viability of different nonprofits before making charitable donations. Read more
Let's Put On a Show
In the wake of September 11, Image 4, a designer of trade show exhibits, saw revenue plunge by two-thirds. That led CEO Jeff Baker to rethink everything--and... Read more
The Inc. Network
Reader-to-reader advice. Read more
Political Capital
An interview with CEO Bonnie McElveen-Hunter, Elizabeth Dole's former chief fund-raiser. Read more
How to Get Started
Column discussing government programs designed to help entrepreneurs and why no one knows about them. Read more
Upstarts: Serving Nonprofits
It's a new age for philanthropy: people have more to give, so charities have more to do. A new group of start-ups is ready to help nonprofits become more pro... Read more
The Rating Game
Before evaluating your employees, you might want to ask them what they're doing. Read more
Workers' Rights: Caveat Employer
Even without a union, your employees have certain rights under federal law that you should know about. Read more
How to Start a Volunteer Program
Encouraging your company employees to volunteer in their community can improve morale and attract new business. Read more
A Little Enlightened Self-Interest
Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard and Winning Workplaces's Ken Lehman talk about values, ethics, and why companies that treat employees well have a business advantage. Read more
The Start-Up Diaries: Moonlight over Indiana
Luis Espinoza has been moonlighting for the past few years to build Inca Quality Foods, a Hispanic food-distribution business. But he would never dream of qu... Read more
Dilbert Fired! Starts New Biz
The creator of the comic strip Dilbert exchanges some e-mail with Inc.'s editor-in-chief. Read more
Create Jobs, Eliminate Waste, Preserve Value
Those six words explain a lot: Why Ken Hendricks is worth $2.6 billion, how he came to be a walking textbook on identifying and exploiting business opportuni... Read more
Entrepreneur of the Year
A close-up look at the 1995 Entrepreneur of the Year, and how he built the company that won him the title. Read more
Pass It On
The story of one company founder who tried to leave her company in her children's hands. Read more
Tom Golisano Goes Public
An entrepreneur shifts his focus from his business to the community. Read more
A Nation Of Shopkeepers
A new breed of business owners is taking the retail world by storm -- in ways that would have astonished their five-and-dime-store predecessors. Read more
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