Young Ambassadors for Opportunity (YAO) is a network of passionate, globally-minded young professionals who are dedicated to alleviating poverty through microfinance, with a special focus on supporting Opportunity Interational's (Opportunity) work in Tanzania. Young ambassadors inspire, educate and involve others in the work of Opportunity in a number of ways, including through social and educational events and by traveling on Insight Trips.

… to recruit Board of Advisors and what they should do for you Recruitment and retention of good employees Attracting funding, angel investors and venture capital Perfecting your pitch  Using trade shows and events to generate sales leads  Executing a social media marketing campaign Developing a mobile apps plan and strategy Using web video to promote your brand  Starting a social enterprise around social entrepreneurship Making money from web video Using viral marketing for promotion and advertis …

Sustainability means different things to everyone. Ask and you'll receive a different definition for each person you pose the question to, if you receive a definition at all. No matter how differently sustainability is defined, authentic and integrated social, ecological, and economic sustainability requires a profound paradigm shift. But what does a paradigm shift look and feel like? This is where the rubber hits the road - a paradigm shift starts with a single choice that appears small, even i …

… We will meet at least twice a month to discuss topics like: How to start a successful business quickly  How to sell and deliver products and services effectively online  How to create a website that closes customers  How to generate leads quickly and cost effectively  How to use sites like Freelance.com and Elance.com to build effective production teams fast  Sales tips, tricks and traps  Lead generation & cold calls Closing sales face to face  How to network effectively  Effective social media …

Engineers Without Borders – USA supports community-driven development programs worldwide through the design and implementation of sustainable engineering projects, while fostering responsible leadership.

Are you meant for something more? Do you know what it is yet, or how to build a sustainable business around it? Do you enjoy helping, working with and sharing with others? PebbleStorm (site and blog http://www.PebbleStorm.com) is a roadmap to the "4-Hour Workweek" (www.fourhourworkweek.com). This Meetup's purpose is to help you understand and practice how to make money through enjoyment. It helps when you can find people and business partners with similar goals and interests. Work can b …

With open source manufacturing, we will strive for fiscal and intellectual transparency.   We will design with open source software, open source our designs, and minimize parts from non-free countries.    The projects we tackle can be as simple as a led desk lamp, or as complex as a human/ev recumbent hybrid and beyond.   The size and complexity of the projects will depending on our collective abilities and available equipments. We will start small and take incremental steps.     We'll learn to …

  This networking group helps you get your new business off the ground fast and provides the support and networking you need to ensure it thrives in the months and years to come.   We address a wide range of business requirements including: Internet Marketing, Sales, Fulfillment Options for Startups & Small Business, Preparing Your Business to Receive Finance & Investment, Help with Busienss Plans, and Management Support for Startups & Small Businesses. For more information about the group, a …

Business is changing. In the face of economic uncertainty, earning our livelihoods is changing. With dwindling oil reserves, climate change, environmental issues, and their far-reaching repercussions, the business environment is forever altered. Meanwhile social needs are greater than ever. The international Transition Movement is a grassroots phenomenon of people like you who are creating positive change. Founded as a proactive response to peak oil + climate change + economic contraction, Trans …

We're a strong community of former (and current) Flex developers with extensive enterprise application development experience. Given the transitions taking place with Adobe and the Flash Platform, we're changing focus to help enterprise application developers determine which technologies are right for the job, including, but not limited to, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and various cross-platform alternatives.

    The Los Angeles Tea Party and Tea Parties all across America are reinvigorating the distinctly American values of limited government, personal responsibility, free enterprise, and respect for property rights. Join us in turning back the tide of excessive government spending and taxation.  Tell Washington (and Sacramento and City Hall) that you demand accountability; that you want legislators to stop rewarding failure with trillion dollar bailouts; that you know that free enterprise works bes …

Our mission is to empower the human spirit to superior performance and intent through mastering Free Enterprise Skills unavailable from conventional education programs. Established in 1990, by Bernard Dohrmann. CEOSpace is the largest and richest entrepreneurial club in the world. CEOSpace operates business owner-to-owner networking clubs in cities across the USA and Canada, representing twenty years of uninterrupted community service to the entrepreneur. Come see why the Super Stars like Lisa N …

… We teach people free enterprise skills that are not available through conventional education programs. Guests are welcome to come up to 3 times, to see if this is a good fit for them. If you decide to join, it is a lifetime membership, and you can go to the Forums as many times as you want, at no additional charge, and those are held approximately every 3 months.  Established in 1990, by Bernard Dohrmann. CEOSpace is the largest entrepreneurial club in the world, with members all over the worl …

Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu.  Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysin …

Engage with other women entrepreneurs in the Los Angeles Area! Created by Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence to bring together established women business owners, M3 Meetups support post-startup entrepreneurs to grow their businesses to the next level. Count Me In for Women’s Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources, business education and community support for women entrepreneurs seeking to grow micro businesses to million dollar enterprises. …

There are already plenty of writers' groups, but most of them are geared toward hobbyists rather than toward writers who think big (I know because I used to belong to three of them). If you're a self-published author having difficulty selling or promoting your work, or you're a writer who's frustrated by organizers who've told you what you are and aren't allowed to write, or you'd like to write and self-publish but are intimidated by the process, SPACE is for you. My name is Martin, and I've bee …