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Kia Ora Rob have just purchased your book "The Life Plan"

"my wife and I are looking to enter the tourism trade and your book is helping us to organise ourselves in a much simplified way"

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This section contains an archive of recently published articles. Here's an extract from a front page article in Third Sector Online:

Exchange not the best finance solution

By Robert Ashton, Third Sector Online, 27 November 2007

A stock exchange for social enterprises would be as irrelevant as the current stock exchange is for conventional businesses, argues entrepreneur Robert Ashton.

Government interest in the Skoll proposal that there should be a stock market for social enterprises ( Third Sector , 5 September ) is laudable, but for most social enterprises also laughable.... you can read the full article here or take a look at Third Sector Online

A new way to fund social enterprise
By Robert Ashton, Third Sector, 26 April 2007

(extract)

The answer is marriage. The charity is the bride: caring, soft and pacifying. The groom is a ‘for profit business’. Thrusting, assertive and successful, but aware that shareholders, customers and staff want to do good as well as make a profit. The fruit of their union can be a vibrant, sustainable, focused and innovative social enterprise

Read them but please respect the copyright and if you reproduce or quote from them, please attribute them to me and mention the magazine from which it came. 

see below for more articles by Robert Ashton

 

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