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		<title>A Grateful Heart Is What Fuels Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; For a lot of change making organizations, it can seem like loss and pain are the driving force behind their work. So many nonprofits and NGO&#8217;s start because their founder lost someone they love to cancer, to heart disease, to suicide, to war&#8230;the list goes on. My own organization, Big Love Little Hearts, is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=530&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Answering the Call</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last few days have been some of the hardest in my cause community since I started working in this space. In just the last 24 hours, nine I children I know died from their heart defect. Nine. I&#8217;ve had weeks where I&#8217;ve known 14 kids that lost their battle with their heart defect, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=485&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Our Town, Our Heroes: What Authentic CSR Feels Like</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Apr 2011 12:30:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I was the lucky recipient of a vehicle loan from General Motors as part of their Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) program, Our Town Our Heroes. OTOH launched about a month ago under Driving the Midwest (there is also Driving the Heartland, Southeast and Northeast) and it works like this: Anyone can nominate a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=478&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Putting On Your Own Oxygen Mask First</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:48:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Cause Competitiveness: Keep Your Eye On The Prize</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; by Estrella Rosenberg &#38; Geoff Livingston If the last two marathon weeks of cause-related conferences are any indication, competition isn’t just something the for profit sector is thinking about &#8211; the cause community is too. How do we compete for market share? How do we compete for visibility? How do we compete for more [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=425&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading With Vision Over Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[All of us love the word “mission”. We use it a lot. Our organizations are “mission-driven”. Our work is our “mission” in life. When we make decisions we ask if it will help advance our mission. Mission, mission, mission! Mission is good. Mission is great! It’s what gets us out of bed in the morning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=418&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Super Sized Brand-Building on a Value Meal Budget</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:02:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; During Mardi Gras last year Big Love Little Hearts wrapped up Congenital Heart Defect Awareness Week with a trip to New Orleans: Big Love in the Big Easy. Since Mardi Gras is going on as I type I&#8217;m remembering how much fun I had there but I&#8217;m also remembering how many valuable lessons [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=408&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>(Less Than) Transparent Fundraising: Is This Ever Okay?</title>
		<link>http://adventuresinphilanthropy.com/2011/02/15/less-than-transparent-fundraising-is-this-ever-okay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 02:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last night on Valentines&#8217;s Day, the All Need Love Festival took place in Chicago. Held at the Field Museum it was supported by a PR machine &#8211; in less than one month they had built a very strong social media presence, had successfully reached out to and partnered with dozens of media outlets and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=396&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Your Free Ticket To #11NTC!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:18:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dying to go to NTEN&#8217;s Non-Profit Technology Conference (NTC) in Washington D.C. this March but can&#8217;t afford to? 501 Mission Place is sending one passionate person! 501 Mission Place uses 10% of our membership dues to give back to the social good community. We thought a lot about where to direct that money and how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=375&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Hall of Shame: Fundraising Failures</title>
		<link>http://adventuresinphilanthropy.com/2011/02/04/the-hall-of-shame-fundraising-failures/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 18:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Last night Marc Pitman posted a blog inside 501 Mission Place about testing our assumptions. In it he included a link to one of the best resources I&#8217;ve ever seen for development officers or anyone involved in fundraising at a non-profit. Marc asked this question: &#8220;As a donor to charity, what do we nonprofits [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=adventuresinphilanthropy.com&amp;blog=12839748&amp;post=367&amp;subd=charityestrella&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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