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		<title>Guns and Beer For Christ Ministry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ It&#8217;s that time of the year again, that&#8217;s right, it&#8217;s time for the quarterly Guns and Beer for Christ get together. This year I had some extra time and I decided to create a logo. I&#8217;m also considering a website for some reason&#8230;I don&#8217;t really know what I would do with the website right [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The MBE Revolution &#124; Book Review &#124; Mission Based Entrepreneur</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;DEVELOPING ECONOMIC ENGINES THAT DRIVE MISSION-BASED MOVEMENTS&#8221;
Do you have a passion for business or a zeal for entrepreneurship? Do you feel like there is still more to life than business, no matter how much you get out of it? If so, there is a pretty good chance that you have a deeper calling on your life, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journey.formitus.com/mission-based-entrepreneur-revolution-book-review/</link>
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		<title>Link Shortening Tool Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Good day to you all. I wanted to keep you updated about changes to the Form It link shortening tool. I&#8217;ve updated the tool to include a couple different features that make using the tool a little easier and useful. Now when you create a link the target url displays near the shortened URL. If [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journey.formitus.com/link-shortening-tool-updates/</link>
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		<title>Examining Coca-Cola&#8217;s Manual Distribution Center&#8217;s in Africa</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recently Coca-Cola has been receiving some attention concerning their Manual Distribution Center&#8217;s (MDC&#8217;s) in Africa. Much of the attention has most likely come from the release of a joint report from the Harvard Kennedy School and the International Finance Corporation. You can download the report from the Harvard Kennedy School&#8217;s site here. There have been [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Model Canvas &#124; How Does Your Organization Work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is a great slide presentation that will help you or an organization understand and implement a well thought through business model. I found the view of a traditional agency seeking donor support very interesting. It&#8217;s a flawed model that requires an organization to focus on the donors more than the intended end beneficiaries.
Business Models [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Perception of a Social Entrepreneurship Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I earned a BA in Business Administration and my minor was entrepreneurship. One of the things that we encountered a lot was business models of entrepreneurship. While reflecting on how social entrepreneurship was different than traditional entrepreneurship I remembered the Timmons model of Entrepreneurial Success. The three major components were:

 The Team
 The Resources
 The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business as Mission Offers Not Alms But Opportunity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wanted to share a statement that my great-great Uncle Edgar James Helms wrote. His statement is truly an inspiration to me in my journey. His view on how business can support the efforts of both social and spiritual causes is inspiring and can be read about in great detail in a book he wrote [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journey.formitus.com/business-as-mission-offers-not-alms-but-opportunity/</link>
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		<title>Encouraging Transparency in Micro-Credit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this slide show from MFTransparency it covers many of the principles of micro-credit and interest rates. My personal stance on interest rates are to keep them as low as possible. This isn&#8217;t necessarily the stance of many micro-finance organizations, what it really comes down to are your objectives (motives). Are you using [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journey.formitus.com/encouraging-transparency-in-micro-credit/</link>
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		<title>The Master in The Art of Living</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I happened upon this quote that seems to be hitting home right now:
The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://journey.formitus.com/the-master-of-the-art-of-living/</link>
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		<title>Home From Nicaragua Yet Far From Finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We made it home from our quick trip to Nicaragua. The time went really fast and all being said and done it was quite the journey. The experience cannot be summed up easily and it&#8217;s not an easy story to tell. If I told you our experiences from beginning to end it wouldn&#8217;t really make [...]]]></description>
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