The Saranac Lake Community Store and others like it reflect a growing shift among some communities to lessen their dependence on global businesses and invest their resources in homegrown enterprises that contribute to the welfare of the community.
It is true that each church contributes to the pluralism of our society through its purely religious activities, but the state encourages these activities not because it champions religion per se, but because it values religion among a variety of private, nonprofit enterprises that contribute to the diversity of the Nation.
Graduates include five U.S. presidents; four U.S. secretaries of state; the presidents or prime ministers of Mexico, South Korea, and Germany; numerous ambassadors; and many heads of private and non-profit enterprises that contribute to the public good, such as Human Rights Watch, Mercy Corps, Ashoka, Unite for Sight, and the Peace Corps.
FAO collaborated with the project in training and implementing the MA&D methodology in order to assist herders and rural community members to establish viable micro or small enterprises that contribute to improve their livelihoods and create incentives for biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of natural resources.
Zeger is not much interested in running an enterprise that contributes mostly theories and predictions.
It helps to promote a strategy for natural product enterprise design that contributes to conserve biodiversity and promote social equity.
Along with Amazon and Starbucks, Vulcan (Microsoft's satellite real estate enterprise) was one of the corporations that contributed to the anti-tax campaign.
Debates about birth control and suffrage, a declining male population and expanding female workforce, the emergence of the New Woman, and Freudianism were among the forces that contributed to the Dadaist enterprise.
And they abruptly switched from being large buyers of bonds from government-sponsored enterprises, like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, to becoming net sellers — one of many factors that contributed to the Bush administration's decision to put Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac into conservatorship.
