Not only is Blanket America (for every blanket sold, they donate a blanket to charity) an amazing organization that does vital charitable work, they are also a business that has one of the best motivations for purchase (BUY 1, GIVE 1) as well, they are a great example of a simple yet genius businesses idea.
Bill Clinton with Blanket America's Mesh Gelman
Here they are in Oklahoma distributing blankets to poverty stricken residents:
They’re business idea is so solid they get celebrities to promote them. Here is Lisa Edelstein from House promoting Blanket America:
What an inspiring story of success! Mark Zuckerberg, the 26-yr.-old founder and CEO of mega-social media site Facebook, talks to Lesley Stahl about his life and his business, now worth an estimated $35 billion.
Kevin O’Leary is a Canadian entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and a television host. He took $10,000 seed money his mother gave him and turned it into a $3.7 billion dollar empire.
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie is an example that other states should look to as someone who has come in to make drastic changes in the way things have been going with the current economy. He is also someone who has the balls to stand up for what he believes in and is beginning to turn around the financial situation of the state he governs.
Chris Christie
Here is a clip of him on CBS’ 60 Minutes where he says:
“We spent too much on everything. We spent too much. We spent money we didn’t have. We borrowed money just crazily. The credit card’s maxed-out. And it’s over. It’s over. We have to now get to the business of climbing out of the hole. We’ve been digging it for a decade or more. We’ve got to climb now. And a climb is harder. We got to do it.”
A complete transcript of the interview is available at CBS News.
I will post a link to the whole segment as soon as I get a hold of it.
Purchase Chris Christie for President Bumper Sticker Decal here.
The President and CEO of ABM Industries (Henrik Slipsager), one of the nation’s largest facilities services contractors, offering janitorial, engineering, parking and security services for thousands of clients, takes a journey within his own corporation.
The 9/11 attacks are a big part of this weeks episode and I’m sure touched everyone who watched it. Two of the workers who participated with him in the episode were at Ground Zero during the 9/11 attacks.
Nicholas James Vujicic born December 4, 1982 is a motivational speaker who was born without arms or legs due to a rare disorder known as Tetra-amelia. He struggled throughout his childhood to come to terms with his disability, and at seventeen started his own non-profit organization Life Without Limbs.
Nick Vujicic
We all, as human beings, go through challenges throughout our lifetime that may seem to hold us back from following our dreams and aspirations.
The final loose cannon Bob “the bus” Ferdinand, a former bus driver from Boston won $181,500 and the $50,000 NAPT passport. He surpassed David Fishman, the cancer survivor, and father of two, who set the previous record for highest profit by a Loose Cannon by winning $129,600.
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Ferdinand went up against Bertrand “Elky” Grosspellier, Amit “amak316″ Makhija, Vanessa Rousso, Abe Mosseri, Peter Jetten and Phil Hellmuth.
The Maccabeats, a Jewish singing group from Yeshiva University, have become an overnight Internet sensation with their viral Youtube video “Candlelight,” a Chanukah song to the tune of Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite.”
The clip has received over 2.3 million hits since it was uploaded in late November. Purchase the song here.
I decided I would jump onto the Chanukah video making frenzy.
