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		<title>Benefit Corporation State-by-State Comparison Chart</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 20:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Haskell Murray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Currently, six states – California, Hawaii, Maryland, New Jersey, Vermont and Virginia – have effective benefit corporation statutes.  Next month, New York will become the seventh state, and many other states are currently considering passing benefit corporation statutes.  I have recently posted a chart that compares and contrasts the various provisions of the six effective benefit [...]]]></description>
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		<title>With New Law, Profits Take a Back Seat</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 14:49:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today in Wall Street Journal By ANGUS LOTEN A brownie supplier to Ben &#38; Jerry&#8217;s ice cream, a skateboard maker and a payday lender are among the hundreds of existing businesses that plan to incorporate as &#8220;benefit corporations&#8221; in coming months. They will be taking advantage of a new and untested corporate charter, available in only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Legal Structures for Social Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:28:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kyle Westaway</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted in Wall Street Journal BY: KYLE WESTAWAY You may have noticed the emerging class of “social entrepreneurs” who are creating companies that seek profit but also are devoted to a social purpose, to create long term, sustainable value. Social entrepreneurs believe a business can be a part of the solution to some of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>B Corps: Firms With Benefits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:02:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally posted in The Economist &#160; By: Matthew Bishop He likes to do things differently. Yvon Chouinard changed his favourite sport, mountaineering, by introducing reusable pitons (the metal spikes you bang into the rock face and attach a rope to). Climbers often used to leave pitons in the cliff, which is environmentally messy, another of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CO Introduces Benefit Corporation Legislation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DENVER–A proposed state Senate bill creating special legal status for companies harmonizing good will and profits has some long-time Colorado business attorneys wary of its repercussions on existing state laws for corporations. Several states recently adopted “benefit corporation” legislation approving special legal status for companies combining elements of nonprofit and for-profit legal structures. The proposed [...]]]></description>
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