Conscious Capitalism
by Doug Hardy
in Entrepreneurship of All Kinds.
Tech titan’s high-grade gift to SFUSD
Panera Bread cafe trying new pay-what-you-want experiment
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Order a bowl of turkey chili at a St. Louis-area Panera Bread cafe and it’ll cost you a penny. Or $5. Or $100. In other words, whatever you decide. Read more….
Gun buyback program funded by pot club – SFGate
It turns out that last weekend’s big Oakland-San Francisco gun buyback – which took more than 600 firearms off the streets – was bankrolled in large part by a $100,000 donation from a medical pot club. Read more…
Marvel Comics creates custom superhero to inspire hearing-impaired boy.
Anthony Smith, a 4-year-old hearing-impaired New Hampshire boy, was confident superheroes didn’t wear hearing aids. So his mother emailed Marvel Comics to see if there were any superheroes who might be able to help.
Editors at the company sent Anthony an image of a 1984 comic book cover featuring Hawkeye, a superhero whose hearing was temporarily destroyed by a sonic arrow. In the image, the character is wearing a small hearing device in his ear. But it didn’t stop there…
Anonymous donors pay strangers’ layaway accounts
There’s two kinds of benevolence here. The stranger/donors are obviously being benevolent. However, in our times, providing layaway accounts (and bearing the operating cost of doing so) is benevolent capitalism. Read more…
Benevolent Capitalism – An Example
The city of San Francisco, California has more than a thousand school-age children who are “homeless”. Thanks to Marc and Lynne Benioff of Salesforce.com, as many as 200 families spending their nights in city shelters, sleeping in cars or on the streets will be moved into public or subsidized housing. Read more…
Benevolent Capitalism – What It Isn’t
- It isn’t banks putting off the enforcement of foreclosures during the holiday season.