Mills Scofield

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Genecians Journey Into Corporate Giving

Mills Scofield

Projects-With-Purpose: Bringing a Community Volunteer Program to Lif e Chatham and Geneca teams at work. Cone proclaimed in 2010 that “cause marketing as we know it is dead” “Slapping a ribbon” on a product, website, or advertisement was now perceived as inauthentic. Our First Project.

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How to Have an Impact without Electricity and the Internet

Mills Scofield

I don’t have internet on my phone, don’t work on projects late at night or on weekends, and almost always take a real lunch hour. I began traveling to Haiti as a volunteer in 2007 and moved here in 2010 to launch an organization called GOALS. Notes : GOALS Haiti just won Beyond Sport’s award for Best New Project.

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50 Ways to Leave your Lover: Keep Failing Til the Last Thing You Try Is Successful

Mills Scofield

By the end of 2010, we have a prototype adaptation of our Whizard trimmer for tissue processing operating with the original customer, but we know that the tool is unsatisfactory in many ways. No part of the medical project has been easy and we tried and failed innumerable times in mostly small ways. Million; not big, but interesting.

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Lessons From BIF-7

Mills Scofield

He urged us to focus on projects, products, services that can inject optimism into the world. Experiment : Is there a project that could have a significant impact on your customers, your employees, and your shareholders? Jon defined “ Simplexity ”: make it simple on the outside, hide the complexity inside.

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