Building Community Through Business and Economic Activity

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Business and economic activity plays a central role in building community. Homdy was doing more than providing jobs - he was investing in the refugee community. Abbey is the founder of global citizen year, a non prophet that organizes eight months immercitive experiences overseas for promising future leaders. He says: "What every community needs most is a shift from just managing with our heads to an integrated head and heart"

Your local community can be the power behind an epic scale story — because smart community investment always maximizes returns. No one knows this like Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder and CEO of Chobani. He turned a small Upstate New York town into an epicenter of Greek yogurt by mobilizing a community to revive a mothballed dairy plant. In creating opportunities for new jobs, he created opportunities for massive scale. This story repeats over and over as the company grows, building communities with a sense of co-ownership. “This is not really a Hamdi story,” Ulukaya says. “This is a story about the people in our communities, what they're made of, and the values and capability that they have.”

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