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12 Angels and Social Entrpreneurship
The 12 Angels helped launch Wonderland Center. Wonderland Center was founded by Alex Shohet, Howard C. Samules and Bernadine Fried.
The 12 Angels’ organization fosters entrepreneurship in the recovery community. Our organization is made up of entrepreneurs, investors and executives who believe business can be a force of social change. Since Capitalism is the fuel of growth and opportunity, the 12 Angels’ members are “Capitalists with Heart”.
Our efforts create jobs and increase productivity for men and women recovering from alcoholism and addiction. The 12 Angels members’ invest in businesses, provide business advisory services free of charge and make donations to reduce the harm addictive disorders cause to individuals, their families and our society.
Wonderland Center currently employs 40 recovering addicts and alcoholics; providing above market wages, health care and an employee education program. Wonderland Center is a advised company of Pacific Community Ventures which invests in companies that provide jobs to economically disadvantaged employees. Wonderland Center is now an internationally recognized treatment center that is a sustainable business and it gives back. Help us reduce the $340 Billion lost by the United States each year to alcoholism and addiction. Visit our websites at http://www.wonderlandcenter.com or http://www.12angels.org to learn more.