Magdalen Sparrow

One thing I usually love about being a social entrepreneur is that every day is different. I get thrown a TON (literally) of different problems, and each one requires a creative solution. One of our most recent challenges? Getting our “new-to-us” warehouse in working order. And BOY, have I been on a steep learning curve.

Nonprofit || Business Opinion by Magdalen Sparrow We tend to think of the barter economy as something from another time—goods exchanged for labor, labor exchanged for resources, communities finding ways to meet one another’s needs without money ever changing hands. But it never really disappeared. It evolved. Today, it operates quietly underneath our cash, checks, wire transfers, Venmo payments, and bitcoin. In the nonprofit world especially, there is an enormous economy built not just on...

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