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Help-Portrait, a global movement to give, not take pictures.

Bunches of people have fallen in love with Le Monkey Bar’s treats, from their chocolate-dipped bananas to fruit smoothies, popsicles, shakes and sundaes.

Pollock’s Hardware is counting on creativity, determination and good-old-fashioned pluck to get the 97-year-old landmark store to the 100-year mark.

For Cheryl Zealand, inspiration arrived in a pot of cold oatmeal. At the time, her twins were 2 and her older child was 7 years old. With the children’s needs pressing, the oatmeal she’d made earlier in the day had been forgotten.

The Local Frequency app launched in 2016 as a shop-local rewards program to keep money in the local economy, where it can have the most impact. Every little shift to local counts.

One way to look at the world is through a profit maximization lens. There are businesses interested in maximizing profit, and those who aren’t.