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  <div class="vevent h-event"> <h1 class="summary p-name">Refresh Portland - Get What You Give: Building a Business with Heart</h1> <div class='date'><time class="dtstart dt-start" title="2014-01-15T18:30:00" datetime="2014-01-15T18:30:00">Wednesday, January 15, 2014 from 6:30</time>–<time class="dtend dt-end" title="2014-01-15T20:00:00" datetime="2014-01-15T20:00:00">8pm</time></div> <div class="location vcard p-location h-card"> <a class="url" href='http://calagator.org/venues/202393127'><span class='fn org p-name'>ISITE Design </span></a> <div class="adr p-adr h-adr"> <div class="street-address p-street-address">2030 NW Pettygrove Street</div> <span class="locality p-locality">Portland</span> , <span class="region p-region">OR</span> <span class="postal-code p-postal-code">97209</span> <div class="country-name p-country-name">US</div> (<a href='https://maps.google.com/maps?q=2030%20NW%20Pettygrove%20Street,%20Portland%20OR%2097209%20US'>map</a>) </div> </div> <div class="description p-description"> <p><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refreshpdx-get-what-you-give-building-a-business-with-heart-tickets-10107775629">Reserve a seat</a></p> <p>Generosity is a touchy feely word often reserved for the non-profits and charities. But what does it look like to build a profitable business that values generosity? How can we create businesses that facilitate exuberant giving?</p> <p>In Get What You Give, Mara will share examples of how your brand can succeed with two verbs alone: ask and offer. Through some exercises we’ll explore the many qualities of any ask and offer, and how they can serve entrepreneurs and customers alike.</p> <p>All attendees will receive one dollar and a personalized zine on the gift economy.</p> <p>Our Presenter, Mara Zepeda</p> <p>Mara Zepeda is the CEO and co-founder of <a href="http://switchboardhq.com/">Switchboard</a>, a business that arose from solving her own problem, and bootstrapped by designing tattoos. Switchboard is a community-building classifieds platform. On it, members of private networks ask for what they need and offer what they have to give. There are only two types of posts: ask and offer. Switchboard is being used by colleges, summer camps, non-profits, investors, and many other communities that are sick of wading through social feeds, monitoring groups and pages, and ignoring listservs.</p> <p>Switchboard is part of Wieden+Kennedy’s Portland Incubator Experiment.</p> </div> <h3>Links</h3> <ul> <li><a class="url u-url" href="http://rfrshpdx.org/">Website</a></li> </ul> </div>