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Friendship grows from online lessons

Posted in Guatemala, Social Entrepreneurship, Spanish Tutor on March 31, 2009 | Comments Off

Once a week Steve Milhollin meets his Spanish tutor, even though they’re thousands of miles apart. He lives in Carter Lake, Iowa. The tutor, Claritza Morales, is in Antigua, Guatemala. They connect online through Speak Shop, a California-based firm that offers tutoring to students worldwide and employs teachers in impoverished countries. Milhollin liked the idea of connecting with a native speaker online. But little did he know that his Spanish lessons would blossom into something more – a friendship. Milhollin signed up with the language site last…

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Startup: Vital signs of a young regional company

Posted in Social Entrepreneurship, Spanish Tutor, tagged , , , , , , , , , on December 30, 2008 | Comments Off

Startup: Speakshop.com By Amy Hsuan, Oregonian December 30, 2008, 1:46PM The company: Speakshop.com, Northeast Portland The product: A Web site that connects foreign-language students with Spanish tutors in Guatemala and Nicaragua via webcam. Created: August 2004 Suggested retail price: Tutors charge $7 to $10 an hour. Speakshop.com collects a membership fee from users ranging from [...]

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Speak Shop Named a Finalist for Oregon Ethics in Business Award

Posted in Awards, Social Entrepreneurship, tagged , , , , , , , , , on September 1, 2008 | Comments Off

The Oregon Ethics in Business Awards honor those organizations and individuals who have demonstrated ethical business practice in its broadest interpretation: in the workplace, the marketplace, the environment, and the community. The recipients of these awards will have, by act and example, gone beyond the expected to achieve excellence in ethical business practices. The Samaritan [...]

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15 Fascinating Oregonians

Posted in Awards, Guatemala, Social Entrepreneurship, Spanish Lessons, Spanish Tutor, tagged , , , , , , , , , on April 1, 2008 | Comments Off

BrainstormNW, April 2008 By Lisa Baker THIRD WORLD POVERTY IS AN OVERWHELMING THING. Those who have seen it with their own eyes return home chastened by the experience but can think of no earthly way to make a dent in the misery. After all, what can one person, one family, one couple do by themselves [...]

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Speak Shop offers new concept in Spanish lessons

Posted in Social Entrepreneurship, Spanish Lessons, Spanish Tutor, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on November 29, 2007 | Comments Off

The Beaverton start-up is making strides in social entrepreneurship By Christina Lent The Beaverton Valley Times, Nov 29, 2007, Updated Oct 30, 2009 Clay and Cindy Cooper are pioneers in creating a new online language teaching industry. It’s been two years since the Beaverton couple launched Speak Shop, a unique online company that offers fair [...]

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Local start-up named a finalist in PBS NOW Project Enterprise Contest

Posted in Social Entrepreneurship, tagged , , , , , , , , , on October 16, 2007 | Comments Off

Speak Shop, a local company based in Beaverton, Oregon, has been selected as one of four finalists in a contest that recognizes emerging social entrepreneurs using business practices to solve major world problems. The winner will be decided by public online vote. Speak Shop offers fair trade Spanish lessons via webcam with tutors in Latin [...]

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