Affiliate

Officially attach or connect (a subsidiary group or a person) to an organization.

 

Affiliate Marketing

a marketing arrangement by which a retailer pays a commission for sales generated from its referrals.

 

Apprenticeship

A person who works for another in order to learn a trade.

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Community Based Enterprise

Community based enterprises use business to improve the life of a community. They are different from private enterprise because their business activity is undertaken as a means of achieving community benefit, not private gain. Key characteristics of community enterprises are that they aim to be.

 

Corporate University

A corporate university is any educational entity that is a strategic tool designed to assist its parent organization in achieving its goals by conducting activities that foster individual and organizational learning and knowledge.

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Direct Selling

Direct selling is the action of marketing and selling products directly to the consumer in a non-retail environment. ... Instead, products go from manufacturer to the direct sales company, to the distributor or rep, and to the consumer

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Economic Development

A efforts that seek to improve the economic well-being and quality of life for a community by creating and/or retaining jobs and supporting or growing incomes and the tax base.

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Economic Empowerment

Economic empowerment is the capacity of women and men to participate in, contribute to and benefit from growth processes in ways that recognise the value of their contributions, respect their dignity and make it possible to negotiate a fairer distribution of the benefits of growth.

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Employee Revenue Share

Profit sharing refers to various incentive plans introduced by businesses that provide direct or indirect payments to employees that depend on company's profitability in addition to employees' regular salary and bonuses. In publicly traded companies these plans typically amount to allocation of shares to employees.

 

Social Enterprise

A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being—this may include maximizing social impact alongside profits for external shareholders.

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Social Entreprenuer

A social entrepreneur is a person who pursues novel applications that have the potential to solve community-based problems. These individuals are willing to take on the risk and effort to create positive changes in society through their initiatives

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