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		<title>For profit helping charities.</title>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  You should read the last iss]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[
  You should read the last issue of businessweek...or was it entreprenuer?? In any case there was ayoung gentleman who has a for profit book selling company who was donating 15% of profits to charity but to be competitive and pay overhead he had to ]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Jason:
Might I suggest you writ]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[Jason:
Might I suggest you write a business plan, and concentrate on the financial projections. The great thing about a plan is that you can play "what if" with your projections, trying out different scenarios, to see what works and what doesn]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[
  &#160;If you have to itemize]]></title>
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  &#160;If you have to itemize each book yourself and then sell it for $0.50 to $2.00 and have a place to store it and then pack it up and ship it, you are not going to make very much to be able to donate.&#160; And that`s even if the books are all ]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 0:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am going to start locally with]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am going to start locally with some type of collection bins at places I can get to agree to be a drop off location.&#160; I was thinking about churches, large businesses and maybe some local government locations.&#160; I would like to get Internet donati[...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 0:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I don`t know of any for profit b]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I don`t know of any for profit businesses that raise money for charities as their primary goal.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is a good reason for this.&nbsp; You need to be 100% behind your goal and if you are pocketing 50% I think you will have a hard time selling]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 0:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I guess I wasnt clear.&#160; I a]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I guess I wasnt clear.&#160; I am not sure if I should go through the process of becoming a nonprofit or just be a for profit  company that donates 50% of our profits to charities.&#160; Just wanted some ideas on why you would choose one over the other.&#1[...]]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 0:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I am confused, do you want to do]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I am confused, do you want to do this for profit or not?&nbsp; I also don`t understand why shipping is a problem.&nbsp; Whether you are a nonprofit or profit company this is an expense that is generally charged the buyer.]]></description>
				<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2007 0:30:07 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[I have a business idea to help c]]></title>
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				<description><![CDATA[I have a business idea to help charities raise money.&#160; My idea is to take used books and sell them online and at our warehouse which would be open to the public.&#160; I know this has been done before with textbooks but why not any type of books, cds,[...]]]></description>
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