PBC Cole and Parker 2014 Final

Joe emerged his business by perusing his desire to run a business on his own. Together Joe and Larry took the risk and began Bannes-Shaughnessy Inc. in 1972 (Katz, 2011). Despite their prior experience and low amount of capital they began with, within five years they had received their first million dollar contract, proving their existence. From here on out their firm grew, so did their success, and in turn were helping the community. Joe was compassionate and his work and business reflected that. Their families were benefiting from their success as well as their own lives. They were perusing their dreams, and once Joe became the sole owner, he was able to take the business to the next level. It is as if he was beginning the growth stage again within his own company, he could now continue on focusing on the expansion and diversification of his

Zumiez Inc. history started off with the owner of the business wanting to do anything he could do to give back to his community. When Zumiez was first created their target market was in action sports retailing, when they really started making more money they started giving back in an even bigger way to 13 charity organizations in Snohomish County, Washington by purchasing jackets, flannels shirts and blankets to give away to those who couldn’t afford it. Up until that point Zumiez was a private company until their launch in the spring of 2005. By the time we hit 2012 Zumiez had already donated over 180,000 items to over 180 organizations in 21 states helping more than 60,000 men, women, and children. Tom’s philosophy of business and life has been there motto since day one. “We help our employees to become successful, which makes the company successful. This in turn allows us to use that success to help others and to develop our employees into community leaders on issues that matter to them”. As Tom always says, “it’s about the leverage- creating it and using it for the benefit of others, and in the process, of ourselves”

The youthful exuberance of the book does not detract from the professionalism of the message. Mycoskie hits, again and again, the idea that helping the world can be profitable, with plenty of quotes and examples from business leaders and entrepreneurs. He is not a wide-eyed college freshman but a battle-tested visionary,

TOMS Shoes is a most humanitarian organization; they are a for – benefit business with a major heart. The organization was established by Blake Mycoskie in 2006. Mycoskie set up the organization after he saw outrageous destitution in a few nations including Argentina as a hopeful of the "Astonishing Race Contest" on CBS Television. Amid this occasion he saw villagers youthful and old who couldn 't bear the cost of a solitary match of shoes. In mid 2002 he found the agreeable and one of a kind ranch shoe worn by local people known as the "Aspartate". (TOMS.com) Mycoskie formed a shoe after this style, one that was adaptable, strong yet great and comfortable and had them fabricated in Argentina. At that point Mycoskie came back to the United States equipped with the shoes and a commendable mission. His central goal and one of a kind business proposition included approaching retail locations to offer his TOMS shoes, then for each match of TOMS sold he would give a couple of TOMS to a youngster in need. A Los Angeles boutique, American Rag, had confidence in the story behind the shoe and turned into Mycoskie 's first retail client. "Amazingly, that end of the week gathered him $88,000 in requests. Two years after authoritatively building up TOMS Shoes, the business had "$9.6 million in income." (TOMS.com)

Abstract This paper explores the life of Phil Knight and his success of creating the most prominent multinational corporation in the world, Nike. Ranging from how it all started from his background and history of coming up with Nike leading up to the very implementation and growth of the company. It is important to note how Phil Knight used his success to better the community around him. There will be a deeper analysis of Phil’s charitable acts and successes throughout his career.

The value proposition is definitely the opportunity to help others with a microfinance loan to help entrepreneurs achieve their dream and make a difference. With the opportunity to infiltrate the sock market as well as help others this will attract buyers to come to Cole and Parker and make a difference in building the American economy.

Another major characteristic of microfinance is that they have numerous loans to informally-organised businesses which are often in small amounts over a short-term period with turnover of the aggregate loan portfolio maturing several times during the year. These are unsecure loans with simple repayment structure and documentation, but interest rates are generally higher than those in the formal sector (Anderson, 2002).

Poverty has stricken many developing nations. However, there are many ways to limit things like this from occurring, micro-loans being one of those things. It is apparent that women in developing countries are empowered by micro-loans. Micro-loans are a small amount of money given to small businesses. Micro-loans help make women more independent and help them not rely on their husbands for money. It helps these women in poverty get their kids and themselves an education with the money they receive. Additionally, micro-loans make it possible for women starting a business, in order to make more money. There are many benefits for women receiving micro-loans.

This is a single-year market plan for Kingsway Inc., a company that engages in a number of businesses including apparels, software manufacture and confectionery business. It was created by its founders with an aim of finding more funding for growth and informs its employees of the status and direction. Even though the company was launched just a few years ago, it has experienced an increased demand for its apparels as research has shown that consumers are increasingly attracted to casual clothes and sportswear. The company is also interested in extending their line of products as well as adding others, while at the same time exploring the opportunity to carry out sales online. It is also true that the firm marketing conditions include the application of different techniques and procedures. The company has made huge profits and increased its income by adopting marketing techniques and procedures. Kingsway also plans to increase clients found in the emerging markets or society.

The company, which started with shoes and other accessories such as bags, eye wear, coffee is also striving on helping children in need. Not only children, but they aim to eradicate poverty and have undertaken many measures to provide every day essentials for poor families. Their one for one movement has helped a great deal to provide shoes for many who do not have footwear to walk.

Three hundred million men, women, and children worldwide travel barefoot in third world countries everyday. Since May 2006, Blake Mycoskie’s philanthropy has enabled millions of people to have access to basic luxuries such as shoes. Tom’s shoes sole purpose and motivation of the company thrives from the idea of serving others, this belief is the foundation that created the flourishing empire that Tom’s is today. The history of Tom’s has shaped the leadership, workplace environment, day to day operations, and benefits provided within the four walls of the company.

TOMs Shoes, one of the most notable shoe retailers in the entire world, has a purpose behind the selling of their phenomenal products; and it is quiet different than that of its competition. “Shoes for a better tomorrow” is their mission statement, which is on the front page of their website, Toms.com. Every time they sell a pair of shoes, a pair is given to a child in poverty whom is in need of shoes. I chose to critique this organization’s website solely because of this great mission they serve, and the means by which they go about doing so.

Since 2006, when the TOMS Shoes was founded, their ‘one for one’ business model has been widely embraced or criticized by different companies and the consumers. While, Blake Mycoskie, the founder of TOMS Company, was on trip to Argentina in 2006, he witnessed the extreme poverty and poor health conditions. After countersigning children walking barefoot, it dramatically heightened Blake’s awareness. Consequently, after witnessing those events, Mycoskie came up with a simple and innovating plan to create a for-profit business with a philanthropic component. Consequently, Blake created TOMS company with a unique principal and business model referred to ‘One for One’. TOMS ‘One for One’ is a unique business model, where for every pair of shoes purchased TOMS donates a pair of shoes to children in need in developing or underdeveloped countries. The company’s name ‘TOMS’ generated from the word ‘TOMORROW’, which was the original concept of the company, ‘shoes for tomorrow’.

What is microlending? In simplest terms microlending is the lending of very small amounts of money at low interest, to low income people in urban and rural areas. It started forty years ago, when a person named Muhammad Yunus was visiting his family and his country Bangladesh which had recently become an independent country. Muhammad Yunus had left his home country then –East Bengal- when he was a child with his parents in search of a better future. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, with a PhD in economics. Muhammad Yunus is the founder of Grameen Bank, the first non-profit organization to offer microfinance services in Bangladesh and in the world (New York Times). This bank showed the world on how little

Microfinance is the provision of small scale financial services to low income or unbanked people. It is about provision of “a broad range of financial services such as deposits, loans, payments services, money transfers and insurance, to the poor and low-income households and their farm or non-farm micro-enterprises” (Mwenda and Muuka, 2004:145) . This agrees with the Asian Development Bank (ADB) which defines microfinance as the provision of a broad range of financial services such as deposits, loans, payment services, money transfers, and insurance to poor and low-income households and their micro-enterprises . From the above definitions, microfinance is more than just provision of small loans also known as microcredit. It is about provision of various small scale financial services. Thus for this study, consistent with the above definitions, we use the term microfinance to mean the provision of small scale loans, savings, deposits, and other financial services to the poor. Institutions that provide these small (micro)