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About Staples, Inc.

Staples is the world’s largest office products company and a trusted source for office solutions. The company provides products, services and expertise in office supplies, copy & print, technology, facilities and breakroom, and furniture.  Staples invented the office superstore concept in 1986 and now has annual sales of $25 billion, ranking second in the world in eCommerce sales.  With 90,000 associates worldwide, Staples operates in 26 countries throughout North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australia, making it easy for businesses of all sizes, and consumers.  The company is headquartered outside Boston.  More information about Staples (Nasdaq: SPLS) is available at www.staples.com/media.

About Youth Venture

Youth Venture is an international network of powerful young changemakers.  Our network aims to help an entire generation of young people develop as leaders who will improve their communities now and throughout their lives.  YV inspires and supports teams of young people to launch and lead their own civic-minded organizations and businesses.  We believe that the greatest contribution we can make to the world is to increase dramatically the number of changemakers today and in every future generation.  This is the key factor for success for every part of society, from a school to a company to an entire country.

About Ashoka

Ashoka is the world’s community of leading social entrepreneurs—individuals with innovative and practical ideas for addressing social needs. Working with these social entrepreneurs, Ashoka builds communities of innovators who work collectively to transform society and design new ways for the social sector to become more productive, entrepreneurial and globally integrated. As the rate of change in the world continues to escalate exponentially, social entrepreneurs must play a special role in helping the world evolve new systems designed to serve the good of all. Ashoka, its leading social entrepreneurs across the globe, and its other partners ranging from highly successful business entrepreneurs to teenaged Youth Venturers are all contributors – individually and collectively – to helping the world make the transition to its “everyone a changemaker™” future. For more information, visit www.ashoka.org.

 

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