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row]column]column_text]When long-time homeless advocate and serial entrepreneur Liz Powers first told people about her plan to combine her two passions and b stanley usa uild the first online art marketplace for homeless, disabled and otherwise disadvantaged people, people continually congratulated her on founding such a noble charity.And while she appreciated their thanks, there was just one little problem. ArtLifting, the company Liz Powers co-founded with her brother Spencer, isnt a charity. It is a B Corp., meaning its a for-profit company firm that meets certain social and environmental standards. In plain language, it is an online art marketplace 鈥?albeit one whose merchandise comes from a somewhat unusual artist class: homeless, disabled and otherwise di stanley us sadvantaged artists. We ;re very clear that we ;re not a charity, we ;re simply a middleman for people earning their own income, Powers told Bostino.Before founding ArtLifting, Powers worked with the homeless and disabled communities in the city of Boston 鈥?and eventually found herself in charge of an annual art show that was selling out. This left her with two observations. The first was that some of the art was actually quite extraordinary. The second was that there was a greater demand in the market for the products than an annual physical sale of the art could contain.So Powers, working with her co stanley cup -founder and brother and the $4,000 they had between them, bootstrapped ArtLifting into existence i